Hopping on the pre-Med track in college?

[Creekland]

Although being weeded out by the college’s pre-med committee may feel terrible at the time, it does mean that the pre-med can abandon medical school dreams early and switch to an alternative educational and career plan before spending another year and several thousand dollars on what would be futile medical school applications (since those pre-meds weeded out by the pre-med committee were the ones the pre-med committee sees as having no realistic chance of admission to medical school).

This presumes they would only weed out those who absolutely wouldn’t make it, but that’s not true. Some colleges weed out those who could have a 30 - 50% chance because they don’t want too many of those not making it and messing up their “great” numbers. If you were a student with a 1/3 to 1/2 chance, you’re screwed if you pick a school like that yet could have a reasonable chance if you picked somewhere else. Look at the following table and across the GPA 3.0 - 3.19 row:

https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/factstablea23.pdf

If the school requires a 3.4 to support someone, it could very easily be stopping some who could get in.