Education major and Med School?

kristin5792
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:11:20 +0000

I took that statement re top 5-10% among students in your major to mean “If you’re among the best in your major, then you probably have a fine GPA, and your GPA probably won’t be the limiting factor of your med school app.” As far as I know, schools don’t rank their graduates, but it’s pretty easy to know if you’re one of the better students, especially if you’re ranking toward the top of your classes in upper level classes. How can you know if you’re ranking near the top? In classes where profs curve, they often divulge the highest grade. If you’re near that, you’re near the top. Similarly, many profs will curve to a certain percentage of A grades–so if you’re getting As, you’re near the top.



Private, non-public schools do not require a teacher certificate.

I thought this was an interesting statement. I have no idea about the requirement of a certificate, but at my suburban private high school, all teachers were required to have a master’s in their subject area. 6 teachers had PhDs (5 were retired from previous jobs working in research or industry, and the other just wanted to teach high school). I had no idea this was atypical until undergrad!