<p>^^You seem to have some bad information from your “friend”. If you get any official AMCAS publications that publish the statistics you will note that the “average” GPA of those accepted to Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, etc range from 3.7-3.75 from all colleges (remember these are averages-some may have lower GPAs and some may have perfect GPAs)…overall GPAs tend to be lower from schools like Chicago, Princeton, Caltech, MIT, Columbia than Stanford, Harvard, Yale but not by much…and most that apply from “state” schools have close to perfect GPAs. Whether it’s fair or not… those who apply from state schools or lower ranked schools have to have almost a “perfect” GPA and MCAT scores compared to the highly ranked schools…that is true not only for med school, but for law school, business school, and even jobs after college graduation.</p>