So in a reality where the majority of pre-med students take AP biology in high school and many if not most competitive candidates do not have this credit applied for college credit and then re-take the course in College, the medical school application readers are blind to this and selectively penalize those who took the course at a Community College as grade grubbers? What if you go from a high school with no AP bio offering to Yale? You have to fight a grading curve where 90% of the pre-meds took AP bio, and you couldn’t take DE biology because someone on CC said you’d be labeled a grade grubber!
As to languages, how do colleges let alone medical schools know who is a native speaker? Having spoken German to your parents and grandparents all of your life isn’t a huge edge for “Intro to German?” Or is the “yeah, I’m fluent in Spanish, but I don’t know how to write that well” explanation that we’ve all heard sheepishly said many times somehow more convincing than “I think Biology at MIT is a bit more rigorous than Biology at Plainstown CC”. 'Cause that Bio repeater is a grade grubber (or so someone will think somewhere).
“Some adcom somewhere will see grade grubbing” is just a way of saying “I see grade grubbing”. And really who is anyone here to judge? It’s just the CC way of predictably slamming any kind of academic striving, especially in math and science. I wonder who everyone is visualizing when they slam that kind of ambition?