<p>So i'm currently a high school junior interested in going into medicine. I've been reading alot about what i need to do as an undergrad in order to get into medical school. I've heard that GPA is super important, and that it's better to get a high GPA from an okay school than get an okay GPA from a big name school in hopes that the big name will get you in.</p>
<p>So my question is, at which colleges is it easier to get a high GPA? or which colleges inflate grades?</p>
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<p>Normally (But dont generalize) private schools give higher GPA's than public schools, mainly because public schools serve different purposes than private schools. Publics exist because they have to. Privates exist to get rich alumni who donate more money to the school, and thus prepare them as well as they can for future succesful careers, or if they cant be succesfull, then drain every last cent possible from them before dumping them.</p>
<p>thanks democrat. that was helpful and what you say makes sense. I was kinda hoping for names of specific schools. Like i know MIT has a reputation for low GPAs, but Harvard inflates grades to some extent. I don't plan on applying to harvard, so if you (or anyone else) can think of any schools that i can investigate it would be quite helpful. thanks again</p>
<p>I understand your question: you want to attend a grade inflated school because you feel you will achieve a higher GPA and increase your chances for med school. </p>
<p>Yet, since your grades are ultimately determined by you, how is anyone here suppose to guess the schools in which you'd best perform? Because someone else said a certain school was easy for them? Makes no sense. You need to consider schools where you will be able to do your best. You will get the best grades where you are happiest, and med schools will evaluate you in the context of the school you attend. </p>
<p>The best school for you needs to be your focus, not trying to identify some place that you think will inflate your grades for you.</p>
<p>1) Grading differences between colleges are very overblown. If you look at the average GPA for Cornell or MIT, they aren't much different from the average GPA's at Duke or Harvard.</p>
<p>2) The colleges with the best students tend to be the most grade-inflated. This makes sense. If grade inflation did not exist at elite privates, then a 3.0 at Harvard would be equal to a 4.0 at a state school. The grade inflation tends to even things out a bit.</p>
<p>All of this point to one thing: you should consider everything BUT grade inflation when picking a school for premed because the grading differences b/w various colleges are actually small.</p>
<p>Just don't go for engineering at Cornell. I know they make that school ESPECIALLY difficult. One of my friends went there, was a 4.0 stellar student, and got C's all first semester in engineering courses! They weed out people in that school but then the people who graduate are super-uber-geniuses</p>
<p>Based on accounts and statistics though, Cornell's business program, though it's very hard to get into, is very grade-inflated. Very possible to get a 4.0 with strong effort.</p>