<p>Brown
Columbia
University of Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Rice University
Johns Hopkins
UC Berkeley</p>
<p>The reason I am asking is because I’m having trouble on deciding on a school to use my ED card on… My plan is pre-med with some random major (probably comp-sci or business) to med. school. </p>
<p>gradeinflation.com </p>
<p>I don’t know about the others, but JHU and UCB are notorious for harsh grading.</p>
<p>“Some random major” probably equals disaster for med school. Med schools aren’t known to look to highly on people with attitudes like that and use the interview process to weed out such potential trainwrecks. Try majoring in something you have a passion for, not something to fill the time until you can apply to med school.</p>
<p>I think you are approaching this all wrong. First of all, treating ED as a “playing card” to get into a school, that may not necessarily be your top choice anyway because of “grade inflation” shows that you may not have done enough research or appreciate the school itself.</p>
<p>Secondly, going in as a pre-med but desiring “some random major” to get into med school. I think you need to have a more serious attitude if going into med school, as it is not going to be easy, even if you get in. Plus, business and comp-sci programs are not known to be easy anyway and can be as hard as a bio or chem major</p>
<p>You should have passion for the school. And the things you are studying. </p>
<p>I have a passion for biological sciences, but the reality is that if my med school plans don’t work out, a biology major wont take me far (no jobs or bad jobs). I will continue doing research into college and I will continue to show an interest in research and human biology. </p>
<p>Computer science is pretty much applicable anywhere… In fact, the lab I am interning in right now hired two graduate students who majored in computer science and the things they can do with programming are VERY powerful in the lab in helping their research progress… In fact, my contact with these computer wiz’s in the lab is what made me change my mind ultimately from pursuing a science major…</p>
<p>I’ve looked into a lot of schools and narrowed my list down to the schools above minus Johns Hopkins. The reason why I am looking for grade inflation is to narrow the list down further. I would <em>love</em> to attend any of the above listed colleges, but I feel like I’m wasting my time applying to all of them… I’m also looking for grade-inflation to make my path to med school EASIER, NOT to turn it into a train wreck. Med schools look at MCAT and GPA and extracurriculars such as research and work experience. I’m learning from my sister who had a helluva time keeping her GPA at UCB and so she had to do a lot more research (2 years after graduating) before applying to med school.</p>
<p>I think I misspoke or exaggerated what i meant when I said “random major”. I am interested in business and computer science, and by “random” I think I was going more for non-science-related.</p>
<p>@MrMom62 @shawnspencer I know it sounds kind of immature or childish to think of ED as a “playing card”, but I’m finding it hard to narrow down my list any further… If you have a way that I can learn more about these schools then please PM me.</p>
<p>JHU hands down. however, they still are not getting that much acceptances to prestigious graduate schools. Thus it becomes just a cruel and unnecessary punishment to its student. No wonder they are also the most stressed undergraduate students sample followed by Cal tech and Berkeley.
If that is your target school and you are admitted to either Columbia, Brown, or University of Pennsylvania, then choose from those 3.
Best of luck to you.</p>