Brown PLME vs Yale

sakky
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:22:08 +0000

Sakky. Something weird about that result. Back when I was in undergrad, they warned about a phenomenon that hit the very top students. These people had done extremely well in college, but thought they were so great that they applied only to Harvard and Stanford, with Hopkins as a safety, and seemed surprised when they did not get in med school. The next year they listened to the advisers, applied to a range of places, and got acceptances. By that chart, those Berkeley students would have been better off dropping a few gpa points and MCAT points and joining the 10/10 people with weaker records



Sure, perhaps overconfidence was the story. I don’t know what the causation was. But it doesn’t matter. At the end of the day something caused some of those people with the best GPA’s and MCAT scores to not get in anywhere. With PLME, at least you know that, even if you do become overconfident and hence mistakenly apply to only the top MD schools and don’t get in anywhere, you’ll at least still be able to stay at Brown. In other words, PLME can “save you from yourself”. And surely all of us know ostensibly brilliant young people who nevertheless do foolhardy things and hence need to be saved from themselves.