<p>The student from Yale was one of our tour guides at the school when we spent a full day there. He/she was very bright and a hard charger. The guide explained that his/her grades were just about perfect ( I didn’t have the chutzpah to ask MCAT numbers) but upper Ivy med schools were signicantly harder than UG to get into due to internationals and other goals of the Med schools. There was also emphasis on going to another Ivy Med school as a cross pollination factor.</p>
<p>The guide indicated the $2,400 in med school apps were not the kicker but the airfares, hotel and taxis bills plus the repeated missed days of class and the intense stress level. I could get much more specific about the difficult type of two bio degrees the guide completed, but I don’t want the guide identified.</p>
<p>The more I see of these people, I think they are not outliers or and are not points on the graph outside the mean. I think things getting less and less on the level for little people all the time.</p>