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<p>I don’t consider a median grade of “B” to be “high end” and I really think that it’s unfair to grade deflate in premed classes. If this policy was followed by every teacher at BU, every student who wanted to go to medical school would be fitted to a curve where above average work warrants a 3.0 GPA…thats below the cutoff for at least a couple of medical schools on the AAMC (i’m thinking of U of BC). Not to mention that the classes that fall into the curve-to-a-C category include bio I + II, cell bio, physics I+II, chem I+II, orgo I+II, and genetics. The only premed courses i can think of that don’t fit the grade deflation category are biochem and physiology (400, 300 respectively). Don’t pick a college based on GPA alone, but don’t ignore issues like grade deflation if you want to go on to any competitive programs after undergrad.</p>
<p>EDIT: forgot to mention BU makes it very hard to recover from a bad semester. I have a 3.9 in the sciences (across 7 premed classes, and one or two for my major) yet my cumGPA remains below 2.9. FYI i only had 12 bad credits.</p>