<p>The analytical mistake you’re making here with that assumption Cue7 is you’re hypothesizing that all of Duke and Chicago medical school applications are qualified and that they all apply to Hopkins or Harvard Medical School in the first place. For med school placement, it really makes sense to only look at the absolute placement-only a certain number of Chicago and Duke premeds have the GPAs and MCAT scores to be even considered by the elite medical schools.</p>
<p>Considering how many premeds that Penn and Duke have, a lot of them are not going to get a high GPA since all of the required science classes for the premed route are curved and only a certain number receive As and Bs-typically, the same students do well in all the science classes and these are the prime candidates who would garner consideration from Hopkins Med.</p>
<p>For example, lets look at the matriculation chart for Ohio State Medicine, a pretty run of the mill medical school: <a href=“http://medicine.osu.edu/students/admissions/Documents/classprofile.pdf[/url]”>http://medicine.osu.edu/students/admissions/Documents/classprofile.pdf</a></p>
<p>Duke: 12
Johns Hopkins: 6
University of Chicago: 1</p>
<p>Clearly, there are orders of magnitude more med school aspirants at Duke and JHU who look at whatever medical schools there are in their home state than at schools like Chicago and Princeton who have so few medical school applicants in the first place.</p>
<p>My point is that I suspect that all of the elite schools in Tier 2 (Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn, Chicago, and Columbia) have a similar amount of super qualified medical school applicants due to the curving and grade distribution requirements at these schools and the fact that the student bodies are at a similar level of test taking ability (based on HS SAT/ACT score ranges).</p>
<p>I just think Duke and JHU just have better advising and more accessible clinical opportunities for their students than Columbia or Chicago. It’s the intangibles that can’t be quantified.</p>