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sakky, i hate to pull rank but are you in high school? particularly if so, but really either way, you're awfully stubborn (and even a bit combative) for someone with limited experience and access to information.
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<p>Well, I'd hate to pull rank on YOU. You say that I have limited information and experience? Why don't you search through all of my many old posts, and you will find out how much I know and don't know. Then after that, why don't you come back and ask me about my biography again. </p>
<p>"Stubborn" and "combative". You better be careful, because what you just said is tantamout to an insult. I have no quarrel with getting you banned from this board. You claim to be older and wiser than me, yet you got personal, and I didn't. </p>
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no school boasts a rate above 90% that is real--many things go into this you will see for yourself, including actively weeding people out and effectively not letting them apply to keep this stat high.
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<p>Then perhaps you'd probably explain Princeton's roughly 92% rate as not being "real". </p>
<p>Harvard's and Yale's admit data is similar. Unfortunately, it's not available online (you have to view it in hardcopy), but trust me, it's not substantially different from Princeton's.</p>
<p>You might try to explain this by saying that these schools actively "weed" through their tough premed classes. However, the same can be said of virtually every school. So that's not something that is particular to HYP. </p>
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GPA's are viewed in context for med school, and therefore the subject of apparent grade inflation is a nonissue. this also goes for grad school, jobs, and everything else.
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<p>Then please, by all means, come ot the MIT and Caltech sections of CC and convince everybody there of this. It would be awfully nice to explain why is it that MIT can, every year, only get about 75-80% of its premeds into med-school whereas HYP can get 90+%. That is, of course, unless you are going to take the position that MIT students are simply not as good as HYP students, which I'm sure would elicit quite a firestorm of protest. </p>
<p>The crux of the problem generally happens to be in the round 1 apps, or in pre-med parlance, getting "rejected pre-secondary". Many if not most med-schools run a largely numerical screen in their first round, and only if you survive that first round will that med-school then invite you to submit the secondary app, or the "real" application. But the point is, you gotta survive to get to the real application. Plenty of people don't even survive that first round.</p>