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<p>While GPA gamesmanship and choosing “fluffy” “easy A” courses may maximize the chance of medical or law school admission, it also means betting one’s entire undergraduate study on medical or law school admission – if that does not happen, one is more likely to graduate with an “empty” bachelor’s degree with poor job and career prospects.</p>
<p>Of course, a lot of pre-meds (not just at Berkeley) major in biology, which has poor job and career prospects but probably does not grade inflate as much as humanities (sciences are generally the least grade inflated, while humanities are the most, with social studies and engineering in between; this is not unique to Berkeley), so they get the worst of all worlds – less grade inflation worsening medical school admission chances, courses which are more work (labs and such), and poor job and career prospects if they do not get into medical school.</p>