<p>Hey CC members, my older son is picking his list of colleges right now. Can anyone give me some suggestions of schools which aren't ivies, but still have a lot grade inflation. He wants to go to medical school after he graduates. It would be even better if it is relatively strong in CS too because he's majoring in that. CS will be his backup plan since he enjoys it too and computer careers have been growing a lot.</p>
<p>Probably Stanford or Duke</p>
<p>Its shortsighted to pick schools on grade inflation. If he really wants to go to med school, then he can get in, no matter what undergrad school he goes to (i.e. Harvard or State U) if he puts his heart and mind into this goal. The fact of the matter is all of the Ivies and their non-Ivy peers (Stanford, Duke, Rice, WashU, Northwestern, UChicago, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Caltech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown etc.) are going to be equally tough, even if some have more grade inflation than others.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, is the medical school system in Canada the same as in the US? (you get a bachelors THEN you apply for medical school)</p>
<p>No you can get into med school before bachelors</p>
<p>I do not understand why you folks think grade inflation is a big problem at most Ivies. The average grade earned in the gateway science courses (engineering, biology, chemistry) are in the ‘B’ range. I am aware of data for to of the Ivies. In general, the expected first year grades of transfers to the Ivies is correlated with the selectivity of the school they transferred from. Based on the data I have seen transfers from a typical flagship state school in science majors experience a .2 to .5 drop in GPA earned during the first year post transfer. I know of a student that transferred to an ivy with a 3.9 average from a state school that earned a 2.5 the first year as a transfer. Premeds are interested in science courses. In general, science & engineering majors do not have a problem with grade on most campuses. Besides if grade inflation was a serious problem at the ivies the med schools would simple adjust their admission strategies.</p>
<p>By the way, I have known a number of canadians that have had a rough time getting into canadian medical schools from the US. Based on what I have heard, with the exception of U of T and McGill, admissions at the canadian schools is way more dependent on numbers (GPA & MCAT) than US medical schools. One canadian attending an ivy with 3.75 GPA 35 on MCAT missed the GPA cut for the Ontario schools be 0.01. As a result his was not given and interview. He ended up at a US medical school. His parents were ****ed since they had to pickup the tab for the US med school.</p>
<p>I know canadian unis are much cheaper than ones of the same caliber from the US, but what about med school? Is it also cheaper in canada?</p>
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Let’s look at Brown.</p>
<p>Life sciences
55% A’s
26% B’s
81% A’s or B’s</p>
<p>Physical sciences
49% A’s
26% B’s
75% A’s or B’s</p>
<p>You don’t see grade inflation? Really?</p>
<p>Compare that to the most recent average GPAs in the sciences at UNC.</p>
<p>Math 2.444
Biology 2.445
Chemistry 2.664
Physics 2.809</p>
<p>whoa thats lame amounts of inflation =/ ***</p>