<p>You should google “Dr. Q John Hopkins”. Started at Community College, transferred to UC Berkeley then Harvard Med.
Many comments on this thread are erroneous. First off, you will not “breeze through pre-med” at any high quality university. Next, the idea that a 4.0 at LSU is better than a 3.5 at Columbia may or may-not be correct. The ultimate equalizer is the MCAT.
As far as I know from my career in higher education, the only medical school admissions committee that has a formal grade adjustment factor is UCSD.</p>