<p>I’ve heard a lot about how innacurately that mvoie portrays MIT. What is innacurate?
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<p>Besides the obvious one of counting cards.</p>
<p>They don’t seem to study very much in 21.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and Ben has a 4.0, which is a B average, which is unfortunate for someone applying to med school. It’s probably because we never see him studying.</p>
<p>wait…so is the 4.0/ B average bad? Or is it bad that he has a 4.0/B as a pre-med or med student? Oorr, is it because he is applying to medical school with a 4.0 and other applicants will have higher marks?</p>
<p>Most people who plan to apply for med school aim for a GPA > 4.5.</p>
<p>I don’t know if a B average is bad. It depends on what you plan to do after college.</p>
<p>Would someone with 4.0 at mit know what they are doing? I’ve heard that A’s are reserved are for masters of that subject. SO I presume there would be a huge difference between a 5.0 student and a 4.0 student?</p>
<p>Then how does a 4.5ish or slightly above (like 4.6) fit into this?
Also, from what you guys have seen would you hire a 4.0 avg mit engineer student? what about a 4.0 premed student?
Sorry if its off-topic. Im trying to decide what I will go for when I go to college, will i want to work my butt off for A’s? Or will I be a B to B+ student who works a lot outside of the classroom</p>
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I wouldn’t necessarily say so. There are a lot of other things that can be different between students with different GPAs: different majors, different courseloads, different emphasis on UROP or other outside activities. A 5.0 is a great accomplishment, and is pretty rare, but the smartest kids I knew at MIT were not the 5.0 students.</p>
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Medical school is a special case, because medical school admissions are generally more GPA-driven than admissions to academic grad school. A premed with a 4.0 could get into medical school, but it’s definitely not the situation someone wants to be in – the average medical school applicant from MIT has a 4.6. </p>
<p>In contrast, an engineer with a 4.0 wouldn’t have any difficulty finding a job. Many companies don’t ask for GPA – it’s your degree from MIT, not your GPA, that counts.</p>
<p>The 4.0 GPA is only mentioned during the med school interview. You don’t submit your school GPA to med schools. it is converted to an official MCAT GPA on a 4.0 scale. So this is not a mistake. Ben clearly could not apply to Harvard Med with a B average.</p>
<p>^^I’ve heard of people, firsthand, get into Harvard Med with less than a 4.0 out of 5.0, although I’m sure that isn’t typical.</p>
<p>Anyway, to answer the question as one of the people who was around MIT when the Blackjack team was there, the biggest inaccuracy was that it was a small group of people. This is according to one of my friends. Apparently, there were were a lot of people who did it for a short period.</p>
<p>Also, our classrooms don’t look like that. Most of the classroom scenes were shot at B.U.</p>