<p>While I agree that the school is a very special place, I don’t think that is necessarily more rigorous than many of the other top schools. Most every school with a premed curriculum is set up to weed out those kids that really are not going to make it in the world of medicine- this is usually based on difficult chemistry classes that are curved. However, to be fair to the school, I don’t believe that the rigor of the curriculum necessarily hurts WUSTL students. If you look at the medical school acceptance rates for students who get a 3.5 GPA, which is very average, the student still do well in terms of getting acceptance to medical school.</p>