<p>Berkeley doesn’t do as well as I expected, neither does JHU. Except MIT (which has name brand appeal and students of course have excellent science/math training and cannot escape rigor), seems most of the lower grading institutions end up on the lower end. Also, more apps.=bad. 347 (from a standard is different from 284 and numbers in the 100 and something area. Johns Hopkins’ 352 doesn’t help it either. However, at least theirs can be explained by having a great BME program (Duke does too, but I get the feeling more people, as a percentage, are engineering and science oriented at JHU than Duke despite JHU having amazing polisci and other social science related programs). I think a reasonable goal for Emory would be to catch JHU (not far from it, will probably catch it once pre-health mentoring gets well adjusted as a part of the process). Also, something tells me that students at schools like Emory disproportionately go for only top schools, whereas people at say Tech, just want to go to medical school. You can’t expect huge success w/o most of the people willing to take any med. school unless you are say, some particular Ivies, which somewhat feed into prestigious med. schools.</p>