<p>Future pre-meds be wary!! If you choose to attend a academically rigorous school like Uchicago, Penn, Princeton etc. please please please plan your classes well and work really hard so you graduate with a stellar 3.7+ GPA. </p>
<p>I’ve had too many good friends squeezed out of the med school process even with a top tier school on their transcript, decent MCATs and good recs + ecs. They ended up with some terrible post grad blues and regretted going to schools like Penn and Chicago over their state flagship 4+4 year guaranteed admission pre-med program.</p>
<p>The truth of a matter is that a 3.9 from a school with lesser academic competition (where you’re likely in the top 1% of the graduating class) is always going to look like you worked alot harder than a 3.5 at an ivy where your in the middle of the pack despite taking science classes requiring alot more time in the lab and alot more hours of homework relative to your non science peers.</p>