Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

shadowzoid
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:18:51 +0000

Well in transfers, colleges consider the prestige of a university in deciding if they will give transfer credit. And I know for a fact that AOs consider the rigor of a high school during freshman admissions, so why would grad not consider the the grade deflation of a college? I mean lets say I got a 3.6 at berkeley and a 14 (is the MCAT score a range from 1-15? I’m not doing premed so I don’t really know) but got a 4.0 and a 12 at Stanford. Since Stanford has grade inflation on par with the Ivies, won’t med schools consider that the Berkeley kids had to compete with more, but see that he is as qualified due to his MCAT?