California Pre-Med

mom2collegekids
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:21:30 +0000

^^^

I completely agree that SAT and ACT scores are good predictors for MCAT scores (which is why many of us cringe when we see kids posting that they have ACT 25s and they want to go pre-med…we know it’s not likely they’re going to make it thru the weeder orgo courses nor get a med-school acceptable MCAT score.).

What I’m saying is that at a school like Chapman, incoming GPAs and test scores are not uniformly distributed amongst all majors (neither at other schools). Chapman doesn’t have engineering, so that eliminates a lot of high GPA/SAT kids from even attending. However, I would imagine that those who are high GPA/SAT kids are probably more highly concentrated in the hard sciences (and may likely be pre-med).

But, I would say that a pre-med student at Chapman is probably going to find a less cut-throat atmosphere and will probably emerge with a better GPA.

and, yes, thanks to mikemac for posting that link. :)