<p>That’s both an informative and sobering perspective. Thank you for that. </p>
<p>It’ll definitely be something to think about strategically. My sister is already set for her freshman year for where to attend, but she may want to consider transferring if it gets too hard and perhaps attend an “easier” school. </p>
<p>That really STINKS from what you’ve written that pre-med students who may otherwise have gotten good enough grades AT ANOTHER (less competitive) SCHOOL end up not making the grades for medicine when it is, in fact, the rigor of their program and curved competitive grading instead of their intelligence that is in play. </p>
<p>I actually HAVE known of one acquaintance who transferred to a diff./less competitive school in order to get high enough grades for medicine. She’s doing OK now overseas in medical school. Her grades even after transferring were averaged out to be borderline and so she’s attendingn med school overseas. </p>
<p>I guess these are very very very tough decisions. </p>
<p>The benefit of attending a good school is that even if you don’t do pre-med the name of your good school will open up other options. Of course you may still make it too…but just in case you at least will have a good education and a good network. Whereas if you attend a lower ranked school and also DON’T make it into medical school or decide you want to do something else, then you may be stuck at your lower ranked school (with the bad pre-med grades) and then get a double WHAMMY. You don’t get medical school AND you don’t get a good college name. </p>
<p>Still…if one could simply PREDICT their grades with high degree of accuracy at an “easier” school and have a very good idea they’d be able to get into med school with those grades from that easier school, then that migth be well worth the risk. If ONLY we could know for sure. </p>
<p>I guess it’s pretty TOUGH! The pre-med track really does seem like a pressure cooker. Thanks for the perspective, though. Very helpful to consider.</p>