<p>Do med schools frown upon a BCPM gpa that has a lot of bio/molecular cell bio research courses factored into it? My research is going well, and I plan to have at least one 2nd authorship before I graduate (in 2 years). Right now I'm looking at maybe 21/98 total bcpm credits being research (each being maybe 2-3). My other course grades are decent, all As and Bs.</p>
<p>An interesting question. My guess is that adcoms would look at your individual course grades instead of your bcpm gpa if you have that many research credits. Obviously, research grades tend to be inflated (mostly, if not nearly all, A's).</p>
<p>Do adcoms often hone in specifically on the pre-med pre-req grades (like, looking at those individually)?</p>
<p>That is hard to say. Adcoms are generally intelligent people who have a pretty good grasp of the system. They probably have a sense of classes that are inflated and those that are graded on a regular "premed curve". In other words Organic Chemistry I and another class called "current topics in Chemistry" would perhaps be weighted differently. This is just speculation but probably has some accuracy.</p>
<p>any opinions from brm, bdm, or ncg?</p>
<p>anybody else?</p>
<p>maybe that's why at my school, they don't allow more than 3 credits a semester of research pass fail....</p>