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A combination of all three. As bernie12 said, premed classes will usually average around a B-. Also many people here will not try very hard freshmen year because they believe their success in hs will automatically carry over (and are busy getting drunk at frat parties 4x a week), and many of those that do try hard don’t know how to study effectively or don’t have much of a science background (ie got zero credit for AP sciences in hs).</p>
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<p>This has been suggested many times before, and it’s probably the best option if you just wanna go plain MD at your state med school or plain PharmD at your state pharm school (which will often not have much preference over taking applicants from elite undergrad schools than those from their respective state undergrad schools), and not go into high selective schools or competitive programs like MD/PhD.</p>
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The upside is the average accepted student into pharmacy school has a much lower gpa than med school, probably due to the much lower demand:supply ratio for spots in pharmacy school at the moment when compared to med school…</p>