Education major and Med School?

mcat2
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:29:03 +0000

The ‘top’ Chem student (as determined by the silver chalice that was presented at graduation) is likely going to grad school, not necessarily professional school.

This is an interesting point. I always suspect that a student who is good enough to get into a med school (any one, not a selected few which are particularly picky) needs to be “pretty good” academically, but not necessarily the very best. If you agree at this, we are on the same page, I think.

In DS’s year, there was a student who really shine academically if we are talking about the stats only (something like 3.99, in a graduating class nobody had 4.0), but quite a few research med schools still did not take him, on the ground of “not a perfect match.” (A wildguess here: due to the fact that he did not have the kind or, more importantly, the depth of the research experience the research med school was looking for. He did get into H.)