Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

rider730
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:49:22 +0000

Keep one thing in mind - many who begin as pre-meds end up dropping that aspiration, sometimes because of the GPA they can earn in those weeder classes here, sometimes because they lose passion for medicine, sometimes because they gain passion for an unexpected different subject or for research instead of med practice, actually for lots of possible reasons.

As well, its pretty competitive out there and a pre-med may never become a med student because they don’t earn a slot. They may not complete med school or not get into a residency or not pass some future set of tests. They may develop issues that cause them to drop a medical career. They may burn out on it and decide they hate it. In all those cases, you have think about what kind of plan B you have.

If you went to CC and to lightweight grade inflated schools just to pump up your GPA, if you took a major you look down upon and don’t like simply to get the highest GPA, and then you end up not practicing as an MD . . . do those decisions sound so good now?

If instead you go to the best school you can, take something you truly like, take classes for the enrichment they give you, earn a degree in something that you would be satisfied as a career if medicine doesn’t work, then you will be light-years ahead of a person who down-scaled their school, down-graded their education and extinguished all passion for learning simply to game the med school admissions process. IMO.