<p>^Average GPA at Harvard is actually 3.52 haha.</p>
<p>Yes, saejinbilly got it right: The wealth of students at elite schools DOES matter - they have the financial resoures to apply to more (and a broader range of) medical schools while the typical applicant does not. Probably a factor into the higher acceptance rate</p>
<p>And since you bring Harvard into the disucssion - everything I said about Duke students is only heightened among the applicant pool at Harvard!</p>
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<p>Is it? What exactly is the average GPA at Princeton? Do you have a source?</p>
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<p>Well, one would also then think that adcoms would then also correct for the even more well-known cases of certain majors being harder than others, with engineering being the most obvious example. Yet I have never found any convincing evidence of that. Yet get bad grades in engineering, as many students do, and med-school adcoms don’t care. All they’ll see is that you have bad grades.</p>
<p>“Oh, and on a more logical note, why wouldn’t it matter? Students who got a 3.9 at Harvard/Princeton/Duke are obviously (and if you argue against this, you’re just being an idiot trying to protect your ego) more academically capable than those who get a 3.9 at state schools.”</p>
<p>Um, a student with a 3.9 at Duke is necessarily more “academically capable” than a student with a 3.9 at Berkeley? That’s just ridiculous. When you say something like that, it lessens your credibility.</p>