who gets in? advice please

schrizto
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:05:02 +0000

I don’t think that someone’s high school average is necessarily a good indicator of someone’s performance in medical school or the type of doctor they would turn out to be. There’s no number that would qualify someone as “smart enough”, although good marks in school do matter in admissions, it is not everything. The same goes with the statistics out of a graduating class of 300. It’s impossible to determine how many are “capable” of medical school because not everyone out of the class will want to be a doctor, and there are many various definitons of the word “smart”. You need a lot more than intelligence to succeed.