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<p>Actually, majoring in biology is immensely popular, including with pre-meds, and it shares most frosh/soph courses with pre-med requirements, so it is not like doing pre-med will automatically put one in the elite subset of a given school. But not being in the elite subset of one’s school means that competition for the top grades in the grading curves of the pre-med courses won’t be as harsh. It is, however, true that some elite schools have very high grade inflation.</p>