California Pre-Med

bluebayou
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:26:57 +0000

Every college can do the premed curriculum well if it calls itself a college…

Med school is about 40% gpa, 40% mcat & 20% ECs. Of the list, Chapman would have lowest competition, so it would be easiest to maximize gpa. But bcos Chapman has the lowest competition, it also has the lowest SAT scores, i.e, not-so-great test takers (for whatever reason). Thus, on average, Chapman students will not do as well on the mcat as say students at UCLA. A low mcat score will keep applicants out of med school, which could explain the low acceptances by Chapman and Cal State students. (In contrast, Harvard selects the world’s best test-takers and its students do extremely well in the med school admissions game.)