<p>Phead, my point about the commitee wasn’t about the usefulness of it, I’m sure it gives a student great confidence to know they are recommended, and suggested area of improvement should definitely be helpful. BUT, the point is that 92% figure is not an apples-to-apples comparison, if you eliminate the people who aren’t ready… yea most likely that person will get in somewhere. I’ve looked at data at my alma mater, where a huge number of people with below 3.2 GPA did and will apply to med school, and they almost certainly drag down the med school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Let’s face it. If you are a white/asian male, with a sub-3.0 GPA, even if you went to Caltech with a triple engineering major, unless you did some groundbreaking research, your chances of getting in aren’t good.</p>