JHU vs. WUSTL vs. Michigan premed

osprey099
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 02:29:29 +0000

@psychodad JHU does have a fantastic rep among med schools. Med schools realize the rigor of JHU and they do read threads like college confidential and student doctor so they see a lot of people complaining about the “cut throat” culture. Although there is no such cut throat culture here, we JHU pre-meds love it when people hype it up and make it sound like it’s impossible to get a high gpa here. In reality, no one is going to sabotage your lab notebook or give you wrong information before a test. The pre-med classes here are not that different from your average state school. I thought they were just repeats of the respective AP classes I took in high school but without the HW/classwork/participation/project grade buffers. In all your pre-med classes, your grade is basically going to be based on 3 midterms and a final (making up ~95% of your grade) and the other 5% will be attendance or HW. The averages on the tests are abysmal (around 60%) so if you can get like a 80%+ raw score on a midterm, that should be 1 std. deviation above the average and enough to get the A. After some digging in my blackboard site, I have posted some class averages for the pre-med classes I have taken at JHU below for reference:

Averages: (I got either an A or A- in all my pre-med classes but I will only post averages here for anonymity purposes)

General Chemistry I: Midterm 1 = 58/80 (73%)
Midterm 2 = 41/60 (68%)
Midterm 3: I dropped this one - this course allowed 1 dropped test
Final: 119/160 (74%)
General Chemistry II: Midterm 1: 57/110
Midterm 2: 85/110
Midterm 3: 89/110
Final: 159/209
General Physics I: Midterm 1: 79/100
Midterm 2: 80/100
Midterm 3: 34/100
Final: 53/100
General Physics II: Midterm 1: 61/100
Midterm 2: 45/100
Midterm 3: 67/100
Final: 71/100
Organic Chemistry I: Midterm 1: 58/80
Midterm 2: 72/100
Midterm 3: 64/100
Final: 65/100
Organic Chemistry II: Midterm 1: 71/80
Midterm 2: 68/100
Midterm 3: 71/100
Final: 70/100
Biochemistry: Midterm 1: 73/100
Midterm 2: 73/100
Midterm 3: 75/100
Midterm 4: 65/100
Final: 65/100

Note: the lab classes, especially organic lab and biochem lab are very difficult and are probably the only classes that deserve the cut-throat stigma