<p>Is NU known for grade inflation or deflation??
especially in areas of...</p>
<p>-science
-history (their Am. history special program, is it hard to get into btw?)
-english</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>A follow up to that would be would med school add a pointed value of NU gpa when they are considering your application?</p>
<p>^^ simply put, no. Med schools pretty much don’t care where you went undergrad, which is the reason why a lot of pre-meds go to big state schools (easier to get a high GPA). But the average MCAT scores tend to be higher at NU than that of state schools, which can help to offset a low GPA.</p>
<p>While I don’t know personally, my friend who’s a freshman right now at Northwestern says the grades are centered around 3.1 or 3.2, which is pretty average.</p>
<p>Grades are centered around 3.4 across colleges, I believe. Probably those lower numbers for Weinberg seem right.</p>
<p>And re: med schools: NU admitted students have on average a .1 lower cumulative gpa and science gpa than the average admitted student.</p>
<p>I am not in medicine and have no personal expertise on this subject, but one of my closest friends is a professor at one of NYC’s top med schools and is on its admissions committee. He has told me the opposite of what ManMan said above; i.e., he says that they are very much aware of the differences in schools (and even in majors within the schools), so that a 4.0 at UVm is not going to be regarded more highly than, say, a 3.5 at NU, and a 3.3 from a Chem or ChemE major is valued much more highly than the same GPA at the same school from someone who took all the premed courses but majored in English or Classics. Frankly, this seems only logical to me. It’s like saying a grad school doesn’t care if you got your 3.8 at Harvard or Hofstra. Nonsense.</p>
<p>^agreed
10char</p>
<p>^ I also agree, although it may just be wishful thinking.</p>
<p>What I’ve heard from premed friends of mine is closer to what ManMan said: where you went to undergrad isn’t so key and that GPA matters more.</p>
<p>Of course med schools will take into account where you did your undergrad, but I would think that a 4.0 at a state school would look better than a 3.5 at NU. I often hear that NU isn’t such a great place to go for premed because of the difficulty of the courses and the grade deflation.</p>
<p>This is just what I’ve heard from talking to premed students so take it with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>^agree with the agree-er agreeing</p>
<p>edit: dangit sinclair, you posted right before me same minute!</p>
<p>^ It’s okay, I understand and am glad we are all in agreement.</p>