Do admissions officers know about Cal's grade deflation?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:33:28 +0000

sakky:

Yet another option if you’re a premed, perhaps ideally combined with the above option, is to take your premed coursework at an easy community college.



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). Perhaps this is more recent than the time that the writer you are quoting applied to medical school (1990s). Community colleges in California also haven’t been joining the grade inflation race (indeed, they have had slight actual deflation) – also, those taking courses like organic chemistry and biology at community college are likely those aiming to transfer to four year schools, who would likely be more competitive (and chasing good grades) than the average community college student.

But that still leaves loopholes like those four year schools with high grade inflation relative to less competitive student bodies.