Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

sakky
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:28:00 +0000

The chatter on the pre-med forums is that medical schools don’t like to see pre-med courses taken at community colleges (versus four year schools).



Sure, but do you know what they really don’t like? Premed courses at your regular university with poor grades. An A at a community college looks far better than a C (or worse) at Berkeley.

Don’t get me wrong. If you can get A’s in premed courses at Berkeley, obviously you should do that. But let’s face it, the vast majority of students in those courses won’t get A’s.



Community colleges in California also haven’t been joining the grade inflation race (indeed, they have had slight actual deflation)



As a Berkeley student, you will clearly be far superior to that of the average community college student.

And besides, who ever necessarily said anything about attending community colleges specifically in California? Go find a state, i.e. during the summer, where the community colleges are easy.