Will Phi Beta Kappa Significantly Help Med School App?

mcat2
Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:40:37 +0000

PBK with a 3.78 GPA? The LAC he attended may be be a grade-deflated school.

Another possibility is that his school uses a holistic way to evaluate the student (e.g., his application essay, recommendation from the professor) instead of just stats. Harvard, for example, does not rely on the GPA as its sole criterion.

Two such schools that I could think of are one in Oregon and one in Penn. Some big public schools here routinely graduate at least half a dozen 4.0s each year.