<p>What 2nd tier universities (Duke, Johns Hopkins, WUSTL, etc) inflate grades? I want to attend med-school so I do not want to touch any schools that deflate grades during bachelors degree. What schools inflate grades? What deflate them?</p>
<p>Lol “second-tier” schools… I just checked your stats and your 33 ACT and your lack of good extracurriculars will limit you from these “second-tier” schools. First get into the schools and start asking. If you want to go to a school with no grade deflation, check out “tier one hundred” schools.</p>
<p>@Bouncer Kind of harsh, but thanks for your honest opinion</p>
<p>I hope you are not serious about “grade deflation”. If you get an A in organic but really deserved a C, you are going to have a lot of trouble in US medical schools. You want a school that has a good pre-med reputation, sending a lot of students to medical and other professional schools, great advising, and free tutoring.</p>
<p>@rhandco I know I am talking about the good med-schools, that’s why my goal is Duke. They have an excellent pre-med system and also give some inflation compared to WUSTL</p>
<p>WUSTL has more of a technical bent. Biomedical engineering majors have been the most accepted majors to medical schools for many years, it is a tough program.</p>
<p>I would say Duke is considered more middle of the road, but don’t make believe that medical schools don’t know what grade means what where. Just like colleges know which high schools are tough and which give As like water.</p>
<p>Also your major will matter, if you can’t get away with just Pre-Med as a major. Chem is tougher than Bio, Physics is likely tougher yet, a liberal arts degree has to have some pretty strong sciences which can be tough.</p>
<p>@rhandco what do you mean “middle of the road”?</p>
<p>This isn’t a system that you can rig. All of a sudden some 18yo wiseguy is going to outsmart the AOs who read med school apps with their wheaties. The med school AOs know the differences between the schools and which ones have inflated grades in which courses. You don’t need to. What you need to do is do as well as you can wherever you go so that you can best be prepared for all the ways that med school and a physician’s life will test you. If you don’t learn those things as an undergrad all you’ll get will be one year of med school and the debt that goes with it. </p>
<p>I don’t know about you but I want to go to a physician who had the most rigorous education possible. Spare me the one whose choice of college was informed by a desire to get As. What are we doing to the educational system in this country?</p>
<p>I suggest best undergrad for Med school are good LAC’s. Teacher Rec’s will be fantastic, career services will have a smaller group of kids to help, classes will be smaller causing less distraction </p>