"If the [college] administration seeks to accurately rank the top tier of students, it must realize that a bloated aggregate GPA from excessively lenient grading can quickly lead to a situation where no amount of calculations and statistics can recover the desired information about the intrinsic quality of the students."The winning mathematical modeling team from Harvey Mudd College in 1998, as reported by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.College Grade Point Averages (Read Full Post)