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=== Grade deflation ===
The independently run student newspaper at Boston University, ''[[The Daily Free Press]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=About – The Daily Free Press |url=https://dailyfreepress.com/about/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212215300/https://dailyfreepress.com/about/ |archive-date=December 12, 2018 |access-date=January 27, 2019}}</ref> and  ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |last=Freedman |first=Samuel G. |date=June 7, 2006 |title=Can Tough Grades Be Fair Grades? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/education/07education.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206113814/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/education/07education.html |archive-date=February 6, 2012 |access-date=June 7, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=B8}}</ref> have published articles exploring the existence of grade deflation. The ''Times'' discovered that administrators have suggested to faculty members deflated ideal grade distributions. Although an article in the official publication ''BU Today'' asserted that "the GPAs of BU undergrads and the percentage of As and Bs have both risen over the last two decades", ''The New York Times'' has found BU grades have been rising more slowly with respect to many other schools.

In 2014, the average GPA of a BU undergraduate was 3.16, compared to the averages of 3.35 for [[Boston College]] (2007), 3.48 for [[Amherst College]] (2006), 3.52 for [[New York University]] (2015), and 3.65 for [[Harvard University]] (2015).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rojstaczer, Stuart |date=April 7, 2017 |title=Grade Inflation Across the U.S. |url=http://gradeinflation.com/Boston.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120430022147/http://www.gradeinflation.com/Boston.html |archive-date=April 30, 2012 |access-date=May 13, 2012 |website=Boston University |publisher=gradeinflation.com}}</ref>

About 81 percent of all grades earned in either the A or B range (75% in the B range). The article went on to note that although the university attempted to curb [[grade inflation]] and inconsistency in the late 1990s, both the percentage of As and GPAs have been rising since. They attributed the grade inflation that has occurred not to teachers' grading policies, but to the increasing quality of each incoming class which leads to more top grades.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Berdik |first=Chris |date=September 14, 2006 |title=Grade Deflation or Not? |url=http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=40427&template=7 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014223059/http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=40427&template=7 |archive-date=October 14, 2007 |access-date=October 6, 2006 |work=BU Today}}</ref>