Re: Grade Inflation.
Yes.. the big employers who have been engaged in years and years of hiring from various schools are actually aware of the phenomenon. I can say this because I worked in tandem with such recruitment initiatives myself where we would actually go into as much diligence as scoring a candidate’s grades against various weighting factors to bring them inline to do a formal comparison. For e.g. a student with a 2.7 from a difficult university would get a weight of 1.2, whereas someone with a 3.5 from an easy school would get a weight of 0.8.
Secondly, once you’re in the workforce, you’ll realize that your superiors recognize the calibre of your education… I’ve personally heard some comments like “well a 2.5 at your school is like a 3.0 at any other school in the nation”, and that actually feels pretty good that others know this.