@Reddyparent3 I’ve read the speed and quantity of science beginning in the first two years of med school is akin to hooking a student’s mouth to a fire hose and turning it on full blast. I’ve seen the COAs at some med schools is 80/90k per year. Most students finance this by loans which have to be repaid. Although they may be wrong, initially med schools look for and can easily find among the thousands of applicants each school annually receives, many, many students whose academic record indicates an applicant can handle the academic tsunami coming at them. Med schools want the students they accept to succeed, not drop out due to academics and be burdened with crazy debt. Although an applicant may excel elsewhere, a student with mediocre GPAs (or the vagueness of pass/fail), especially in science courses, is just too risky and it will be the end of him/her to be a doctor at least in the cycle he/she is applying. At some schools, this rejection will occur before any human eyes ever look at the rest of their application that may show the applicant has excelled elsewhere.