Higher GPA from easier pre-med school vs Lower gpa from harsher grading school

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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This reminds me of the following: (Yes, curm, I know I have quoted your sentence totally out of the context and apply it in another totally different context.)</p>

<p>This is especially true for the statistics for midterm grades. You really need to omit the bottom, say, 1/4. Why? This is because those kids in the bottom will drop the classes before the date the students are allowed to drop a course without leaving a “W” on the transcript. Before the final, all the bottom students are gone. If only 20 or 25 % will get an A, all of a sudden the standard for getting an A becomes higher.</p>

<p>So the average score and SD before the date the students could drop the course are very misleading.</p>

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<p>As y’all argue about low stat admissions, remember that they also include hooked candidates, such as D1 athletes, and they include admissions of special students – those in 7/8 year programs, and those that attend an SMP, (that latter of which by definition have low gpa’s, but rocked the mcat and master’s/med school coursework). Georgetown Med, for example, admits ~20 students per year from its SMP.</p>

<p>(Yes, I realize that most 7/8 programs have minimum gpa requirements…)</p>