<p>I'm most concerned about getting into an elite medical school... I heard about Princeton's grade deflation, but don't everything else outweigh? I mean, for Stanford, the professors teach grad school, while Princeton's professors teach undergrad. So wouldn't the research opportunities be more bountiful for Princeton?</p>
<p>I'm confused...</p>
<p>Your choices are all excellent. You can’t go wrong with either. If you want to attend an Elite medical school, it won’t matter what school you attend from your choices. What will matter is your gpa, and scores. If your gpa is too low, even though the rest of your overall profile for medical school s strong, your application won’t make the cut at “elite medical school.”</p>
<p>Lastly, if you’re so caught up on going to an “elite medical school” then you better be the best. Even if that is competing for a high gpa at a school that has grade deflation, that training will be invaluble once you enter an “elite medical school”</p>
<p>Brown has a 100% acceptance rate for pre-med students in regard to their top 3 choices. (And we’re also others also claim that we have grade inflation here, but that’s a whole other thread [that the ‘Search’ function can probably help with].)</p>
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<p>WOW. What a whopper!!! NO school, I repeat no school, has 100% acceptance rate to ANY med school, let alone a “top 3 choice.” For Brown undergrads, the med school acceptance rate is 81% (Fall 2009). For the “large majority [who] will matriculate to medical school one or more years after graduating from college…this number has been as high as 70%.”</p>
<p>[Medical</a> Admission Data Snapshot](<a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/hco/data/]Medical”>WELCOME TO HEALTH CAREERS ADVISING | Health Careers Advising)</p>
<p>Huh? Professors teach undergrads at Stanford, too. Stanford has more research because of its grad schools. Princeton’s research focus is not really medical.</p>
<p>All your schools would be great choices. I think cost should also be factored. I also would probably give Stanford a slight edge due to not only offering great quality of education but location ( personally one of my favorite cities).</p>
<p>^Be aware, OP, that the locations are highly subjective. I visited Stanford after being accepted and realized I could not handle that weather or location for four years – I need seasons (and a little bit of cold), and I dislike California in general. Personal preference. Make sure to visit.</p>
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<p>So are your opinions.</p>
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<p>silly iamtbh, that’s what I said. In fact, my entire post was a demonstration that opinions are subjective.</p>
<p>If you are going to ■■■■■, at least be funny.</p>
<p>for gpa purposes, Brown, then Stanford, then Princeton.</p>
<p>[At</a> Princeton University, Grumbling About Grade Deflation - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/education/31princeton.html]At”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/education/31princeton.html)</p>
<p>Also, this: <a href=“http://gradeinflation.com/[/url]”>http://gradeinflation.com/</a></p>
<p>I cannot find the page of his blog that shows the mean gpa at Brown to be 3.6, at Stanford about 3.5, and at Princeton about 3.35 (going by memory, so I could be off on S and P, but I know Brown is correct.</p>
<p>As much as I think grade inflation is silly, it really strikes me as the epitome of hubris for Princeton to make a lonely stand against this tide… often to the detriment of its own students in grad school apps to schools where the adcoms do not adjust for gpa from one institution to another.</p>
<p>Princeton has published charts showing that grade deflation has not had an impact on medical school acceptance rates. In 2004, the last year before a grading policy was put into effect, the medical school acceptance rate was 92%. In 2009 (where students had all four years under the new policy), the medical school acceptance rate was 93%. Both of these are exceptionally high numbers. Here’s a link to the page that discusses the policy and its effects, which appear to be minimal on med school admissions [Princeton</a> University - Dean of the College - FAQ](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/odoc/faculty/grading/faq/]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/odoc/faculty/grading/faq/)</p>
<p>If you want to be taught more by professors and less than TAs then I would go for Princeton with its focus on undergraduates. They’re all great options, and you can’t go wrong!</p>
<p>Among the three, Stanford has a top notched medical school. Besides, Stanford has the #1 ranked biological science department in the nation. Neither Princeton nor Brown is top 10 in biological science.</p>
<p>datalook, that may be true, but is it relevant to the goal of gaining admittance to med school? I was under the impression that most admitees to med school were not actually biology majors.</p>
<p>visit all three and go where you can see yourself spending four years, growing as a person, making great friends, learning more than you ever thought possible.</p>
<p>for me, that place was brown. best four years of my life.</p>
<p>I assume it’s easier to get into Stanford medical school for a Stanford undergraduate.</p>
<p>datalook – yeah, I think that is true. I had not thought about that.</p>
<p>that’s most definitely not true. it’s usually harder to stay in the same place for undergrad and grad school because there is a stiff competition from an internal pool of candidates and because med school’s in particular go out of there way to diversify and bring people in from elsewhere</p>
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<p>Except for Brown’s PLME.</p>
<p>I talked to the kid giving my Princeton tour the other day about grade deflation. While I’m sure he’s no expert, he did say Princeton has taken their students’ concern into consideration, doing serious research into whether or not it affects grade school admissions. They found it did not seriously impact grad schools (though I don’t know the exact methodology of the study), and he added that Princeton is very good about getting the word out to employers and grad schools about grade deflation so Pton grads can hold their own against other top grads.</p>