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<p>You fell into the same fallacy as BDM and his LSAT-gpa comparison. Cal-Berkeley has more 700 scorers in its upper quartile (25%, or 1200 Frosh) than Princeton in it’s entire class (~75% of total, or ~800 Frosh)! Forget the bottom quartile… quite frankly, this is the pool of prospective premeds. (btw: some/many of those sub-600 kids will flunk out of Cal quickly and will not return for Soph year; thus, reducing the F’s given out the following year!) </p>
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<p>Indeed!. Heck by the link you provided, there are few C’s. To be exact, “fewer than 5 percent fell below B-…”</p>
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<p>Dunno that its published externally. But, it’s common knowledge (check out the UC campus threads where kids post the mean and SD of Chem, Bio and Calc tests) that the premed STEM courses are typically curved to a C+/B-.</p>