Curve This!

I believe that grade inflation isn't as bad as people make it out to be. In today's economy it is a struggle to find jobs and therefore employer's are cautious on who they hire. In recent years the rising grades are coming from private universities such as Princeton, Harvard, and Dartmouth. I believe that a student who graduates from a school like Princeton, Harvard, or Dartmouth is more likely to get hired over a student from a school like Southern. Even with the students from the private universities getting the benefits of grade inflation they still are more likely to get hired because of their academic background. If a student from Southern and a student from Princeton both graduated with 4.0 GPA, who are you going to hire? Now what if we compared southern to schools that are not prominent Ivy league schools, grade inflation could play a bigger role on who gets the job because the employer is looking more towards the GPA. Grade inflation occurs almost everywhere. In a way it kinda equals out the effect of it if most students are getting some sort of grade inflation. Grade inflation doesn't necessarily have to be on overall grades either. Teachers sometimes give out "curves" on tests and quizzes.  A curve is when a teacher gives you a higher grade then what was actually received. Curves are usually given when a student is close to the next letter grade. For example, a teacher may curve a 88 to a 90 just so a student gets that A.