<p>college…,
"I know plenty of premeds that had taken all the pre-med classes by the time they got to college. They didn’t take anything extra than they had too, so getting an outstanding GPA at their ivy was not that taxing for them. There are disincentives toward challenging oneself academically. If they were going to work harder, it would be on ECs they could use for med school because they already had ‘enough’ academics. "</p>
<p>-This sounds more like fantasy than reality. If there are geniuses like that, there are definitely not plenty of them. Besides, most colleges (including lower ranked state schools, forget Ivy’s and Elite) strongly advise ore even require to retake Medical Schools required classes after having A’s and 5’s in AP’s. D’s college into Bio at state school went thru AP material in first 2 weeks, then they move on to new material which had laid foundation to all of her Bio classes. She had mentioned that she would have been in trouble if she skipped that first Bio. She had graduted #1 from prep. private HS class, had both Honors and AP Bio (5 on exam) and had used the same Bio textbook in HS as in college first Bio class. </p>
<p>She had not met any pre-med in her Honors college who survived without putting enourmous efforts. Many Honors kids who were very top caliber students primarily from prep. private HS, actually did not survive in pre-med track, they fell out after the first Bio class or later.</p>