Myth=Grade DEFLATION at Cornell??

norcalguy
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:47:39 +0000

Yes.

Career Services | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University;

Notice that only 14 students out of 210 students applying to med school had a GPA of 3.9+ while 47 had a MCAT score of 35+. There is clearly an incongruity b/w GPA and MCAT scores, suggesting that the school is perhaps too hard (although it appears that students do just fine when standarized against other schools on the MCAT). And this doesn’t even include the hundreds of premeds who didn’t even make it to the application stage. I am willing to bet that a significant percentage of the 14 students were not science majors.

Fortunately, I have a 3.9 and a 35+ hehe