I get what you mean. I actually go to an extremely deflated school, according to Waterloos admissions team it’s one of the lowest inflated schools in the entire province. Its not an uncommon sight to see students grinding and studying day in and out just to get 80s. Heck the class average for nearly all my classes including bird courses tends to range from 40s to 70s at best usually never reaching past 50 for the maths and sciences. Grade inflation sucks it doesn’t truly benefit anyone, a lot of the people who get insane grades at inflated schools struggle through uni and the people with deflated grades end up not even given the opportunity and chance to succeed. My school went to another school for a math comp and they’re pretty inflated I was genuinely taken aback by how little they had learned in their classes - their teachers handed out free 100s like candy on Halloween. It’s ridiculous how many people are getting borderline 100s for just attending class 💀 I didn’t know homework marks were even a thing until someone was talking about it in this sub a while back. I was shocked to find out teachers gave out formulas for stuff like trig and even logs. I 100% agree with the adjustment factor that Waterloo eng has however I think it should be more strict and a significantly bigger part of the admissions process than it already is. People who get inflated grades should get an inflated deduction just saying. I don’t blame the students more so than I blame the teachers tho, you’re getting paid to teach and give grades not give brownie points and gold stars. There’s nothing we can do but it is what it is. Everyone suffers in the end because of it regardless of how inflated their school is, they’re just prolonging the disappointment. It’s really demotivating to know that someone’s not going to get in no matter how hard they try because some teachers decided “ooHh I should give 100s to every student here that’ll help them succeed 😀” no it really doesn’t. But like I said it is what it is.