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<p>Pharmagal, come on! What we are talking about is making the admissions process more relevant and more fair. Obviously adcoms can force premeds to complete 2 orgo courses, just like adcoms probably can force premeds to run a marathon. But why do that if you can run an admissions process that is more relevant. Again, the idea is that we want to admit future competent doctors, not future organic chemists. </p>
<p>My question to you is, why do you insist on defending an inefficient system? As Dean Alpern said, he has never seen the Diels-Alder reaction mentioned even once in all his years in the business. So why force premeds to learn it? More generally, why shouldn’t we be always looking to make improvements in the process? It seems to me that you simply don’t want the process to improve, and if so, please just come right out and say so. </p>
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<p>First off, it’s not just a matter of “one or two B’s”, but can obviously be a lot worse than that. </p>
<p>But more importantly, even if it was just a matter of 1 or 2 B’s, the fact remains that the process is competitive and so you will still look bad compared to somebody who got all A’s, perhaps because he just took easy classes at an easy school. Which, again, harkens back to the use of a completely fair and standardized test like the MCAT where you don’t have to worry about different grading standards.</p>