@Bryant_Wong if this screen name is your real name, I would Ute you to change it asap. You will need to email an admin and tell them what you want your new screen name to be:
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Thanks for the advice. Am new to posting on CC.
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Top students at Yale disproportionately head into consulting and finance.
I think grade inflation might have something to do with it too. If you got a 3.0 at Yale you probably spent a LOT of time at Mory’s and Rudy’s and the DKE house.
and welcome - I enjoy your analysis.
Wondering how to square the relatively higher med school acceptance rate of lower WashU GPAs with the claim that undergraduate school and course rigor do not matter. Is WashU better at preparing students for the MCAT? Providing more impactful EC opportunities?
I’m convinced that some schools better support the path to Med School. I have looked at Med School acceptance rates, acceptance rates by GPA, acceptance rates by MCAT scores, application rates vs. total student body, application rates of biological sciences majors, etc. Some data is not uniformly available, but there is enough to see patterns.
WashU appears to be appears to be a school that broadly supports its pre-meds while having strong Med School acceptance success.
In terms of support, 48.9% of WashU’s applicants have a GPA <3.6 vs. 13.3% at Yale. I am assuming that grade inflation is similar at these schools as there is only a 0.03 variance in average GPA.
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In terms of WashU’s Med School acceptance success, even its lower GPA students (those < 3.6) are more successful in gaining admissions than many other well known colleges/universities. The data shows that this population of lower GPA WashU students had a 63.6% first-time Med School application acceptance rate. That low GPA acceptance rate is better than the entire Med School application population of some schools, including top publics like UC Berkeley and UCLA.
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Moreover, these schools have a much smaller percentage of both their overall and biological sciences student apply to Med School. Why? Are those schools holding back on their institutional letters of supports for student Med School applications to boost acceptance rate data?
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