Thankfully Brown is relatively devoid of this behavior, but I was referring to the stereotypical pre-med attitude: grades are more important than knowledge, school is a competition to be the best, doing things “to look good” for medical school, etc.
And yes, I did take a gap year because had I not, my application would have been submitted way too late (I hadn’t even begun MCAT prep before the end of junior year), and I didn’t have enough research yet to be even remotely competitive for MD/PhD.