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Princeton has a very high medical rate acceptance and it continued throughout the years of grade deflation. Since grades will not be artificially deflated for any incoming freshman, I’m not sure of your point in looking at GPAs from 8 years ago.
While there are legitimate reasons to choose Duke over Princeton and vice versa (and by the way, I think that Duke is a terrific school), there is no evidence that Princeton’s GPAs have affected the acceptance rate of Princeton students to medical school. And, although I am not particularly knowledgeable about the specifics of medical school applications, I am extremely familiar with law school applicants, and I can assure you that top law schools, which also base acceptances in large part on GPA and LSATs, have taken into account Princeton’s grading policies when making decisions and Princeton students have not been adversely affected.