My school has a super-nice professor who gives numerous 4.0s to students in QM

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And it has one of the largest physics+astrophysics undergraduate enrollments in the nation.

Will graduate admissions committees know about this? Especially if they have many applicants from my school? Will this devalue a high grade in that QM course?
 
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Simfish said:
Will graduate admissions committees know about this?

Probably

Especially if they have many applicants from my school? Will this devalue a high grade in that QM course?

I think people on this list assume that graduate committees care more about grades than they actually do.
 

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