<p>Underachiever, from your 19 posts, I cannot see where you are coming from. Please identify yourself as an undergraduate, high school student, parent or other so we can better weigh your perspective.</p>
<p>Where do you have more information from other schools on the undergraduate/alumni ratio of med school applicants? I agree that would be interesting information. As JHS suggested, it has been increasingly common to take a gap year before med school for applicants everywhere. I would also like to see the the average gpa in natural science courses from other peer schools as I believe they would be just as relatively low to the average of humanities courses, if not more, as at Princeton.</p>
<p>I would speculate that while an “average” student from Princeton with a 3.4 gpa may not be competitive for top med schools, neither would an “average” student from Yale with a 3.6. The more selective the med school, the closer to the top of your class you have to be. But again, while they won’t have quotas, med schools probably look to take around a certain number of students from particular institutions each year and will compare these students to their classmates. They are perfectly aware of the grading policies at most schools.</p>