<p>Hey everyone. </p>
<p>I was accepted to BU and I am very excited.
I will be a premed. </p>
<p>The concern I have is that I heard that BU has grade deflation.
To what extent is that true. </p>
<p>Numbers matter when applying to med school.</p>
<p>As noted in another post, after literally hundreds of threads on this topic, my standard reply to this question is "See the little button at top right called 'search this forum'? Use it."</p>
<p>And again, not poking at this particular poster, but do people think they'll somehow get a better answer if they ask a question themselves rather than look at the answers already given to the same or similar question? I'm serious. Or is it that most people do the five minutes research and don't ask so all we see is a skewed sample?</p>
<p>sorry lergnom for getting you angry. </p>
<p>i was just curious what premeds at BU thought about grades and stuff cuz I do not attend college yet.</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing, and had read several rants about this while searching about it. However, I'm still in doubt because the last time any of this was discussed was at around 2006. </p>
<p>I had made another thread asking this and they said that the grading policy depends on the school, so in your case you should try contacting the department and ask them if your specific pre-med school uses it or not.</p>
<p>all I can say is that you have to earn the grades you get. I'm not pre med but I'm in the accelerated athletic training/doctoral physical therapy program through SAR and the classes are hardd its an 18 cr. courseload. similar to pre med in a lot of ways and you have to work for your grades. it's a little discouraging because you find yourself competeing with the kids in your classes and **** but it's manageable</p>
<p>BU's grade deflation is basically that you compete with your classmates, unfortunately. i believe this is true at most schools. i also know that ive had maybe 1 or 2 classes, at most, where grades were actually deflated, which sucked, but for the premed courses, they werent. im in my last premed course now, physics, and there is no curve at all-what you get is what you get. the average is typically in the low-mid 70s, but they are generous at the end of the year (should have had an a- but got an a). gen chem was scaled (if the average was a 51 thats a b-), but lets say that everyone in the class got between a 40 and a 60 but 10 people got in the 90s. those people screw up the curve, and i think thats the grade deflation people talk about. but as long as you work hard, you should be fine (fine meaning a b/b+, working harder will get you in the a range). i dont know how everyone else who is premed at bu feels, but i believe that our premed program is pretty excruciating and that a b here would be an a at harvard. its frustrating because youll be applying to med school competing with harvard kids with 3.9's (because, at harvard, they want everyone to get good grades so their reputation is even better) and sometimes admissions officers dont realize that bu tries to give their students a great education without just handing out grades. you earn your grades at bu...not the same everywhere else. but, i know that we have an excellent premed program and that bu premed would have you well prepared for med school.</p>
<p>Don't compare BU with Harvard, especially on grades. It's not that BU deflates grades but that Harvard's grades are a sick joke, with the average being over 3.7.</p>
<p>yeah I just recently thought of an example to further illustrate the point. in my organic chemistry class we have four midterm exams and are allowed to drop the one lowest score. I also have a friend in that class on the women's lax team and in the beginning of the year when we first received our syllabi I remember her looking through to see whether or not any exams conflicted with her travel schedule for games. turns out during one exam she'd be in CA or somethin like that and after asking the professor what could be done about it he simply said she'd have to drop it. now this prof is actually a really nice guy and those circumstances are particularly harsh especially for athletes whereas at maybe a Harvard or definitely a Notre Dame the athlete probably wouldn't be too worried about how it would hurt their grade. point being that, again, you have to EARN the grades not just get by somehow.</p>