<p>Has anyone considered attending the University of Phoenix to get a high GPA for applying to medical school?</p>
<p>I’m not sure how true the rumors are, but I’ve generally heard that UP is a significantly “easier” school to do well in.</p>
<p>Isn’t that one of the joke schools like duvry? but still any “University” is better than a Community College i suppose</p>
<p>That sounds like a truly horrible idea for your fun loving, top of the class younger sister. I can’t believe she’d ever consider it.</p>
<p>No, I was asking in general, lol. </p>
<p>She’s pretty competitive in a personal goal oriented way and so I don’t think she’d even consider a school with the reputation of UP. </p>
<p>But I was just asking as a general strategy question.</p>
<p>This could be an exercise in game theory logic. 
What would be the optimal strategy for getting into medical school? …Now the parameters of this game might be that we don’t care about all other concerns, such as how we’d do after we got in…what would happen if we didn’t actually get in…etc. etc. </p>
<p>But just as a pure attempt at getting into a U.S. medical school…is there an optimal strategy one could use that might involve attending a school at UP to get very good grades? </p>
<p>Of course, we could complicate the question/game too by throwing in those other considerations. :)</p>
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<p>I don’t see how this would apply. Perhaps the application process could be modeled as an exercise in reverse game theory (mechanism design) where the principal would be the adcoms?</p>
<p>Why are we running through all these hypotheticals? The thing is, medicine is a huge career and commitment. If you’re getting there by gaming the system–eg purposely choosing easy universities or putting a nice chunk of time into choosing easy classes/professors–then you probably won’t like it when you get there anyway. Med school is HARD, both academically and personally. You have to really want it to get there, and you have to be in it for the long haul, and you really have to love learning for the sake of learning to make it in this field. I really don’t understand why we’re entertaining these thoughts about how to scheme around the process (and besides–don’t you think it’s been done before? Med school adcoms aren’t idiots, and they certainly weren’t born yesterday!). Honestly, I’m a little offended by the repetitive posts about how to make med school admissions as easy as possible.</p>
<p>I think that medical schools would take any student trying to apply from University of Phoenix with a grain of salt, or at least look very closely at their transcript.</p>
<p>Does UoP even offer all of the required premed courses? I forsee taking an orgo lab online to be very difficult.</p>