Princeton vs Yale

underarchiever
Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:52:29 +0000

“Princeton does no screening whatsoever. Anyone wishing to do so can apply to medical school from Princeton and will be given the support of the institution.”

There are only 50-60 undergraduate students and equal number of alumni applying for medical school annually. This looks pretty suspicious of screening already occurring. It is well known fact that gap year classes and medical related activity help medical school applications. Medical training is a long process, and younger entrance will make one’s life easier. It appears that large number of Princeton students are not ready to apply for medical school in senior year, and are forced to take gap year to fulfill the requirement. Is low GPA a factor in this? I don’t think that Princeton’s strategy of saying that “our Bs are better than your As” will work for most of the applications.