<p>I've been accepted (yea!) and am trying to decide between Middlebury and some other schools. i am planning on becoming a doctor. My stats for the entering class are just slightly above middle. I have been accepted at schools where I am near the top, statistically, that are very good schools but not the reputation of Midd. I know that medical schools look mostly at MCAT scores and your overall and science GPAs. I am sure I would have a higher GPA at the other schools, but I love Midd. How tough IS the science department - is it really hard to get A's? I am an athlete, so I will be spending alot of time training and I will be doing work study. I want to enjoy my college experience and am worried that I won't be able to because it will be so difficult at Middlebury. Also, the other schools have offered me nice sized merit scholarships which may enter into my decision...
Also, I read somewhere on CC that for graduate business schools, Middlebury is on the top tier list and a multiplier is used for GPA's because of the school's rigor which boosts the overall GPA figure. Is this true and does it apply also for medical school applicants? Thanks for your comments.</p>
<p>I highly doubt that there’s any formal multiplier, either in business or medical school admissions. UC Berkeley’s law school did this about fifteen years ago and got sued on the grounds that policies like this were racist (it’s a complicated argument), so they stopped. But there could easily be some kind of unofficial understanding that GPAs from Middlebury are tougher to get.</p>
<p>kmo2015–you probably heard that from me in another thread, but I wasn’t talking about business or medical school. I’ve seen multipliers for a graduate program in another (science-related) discipline. I don’t know anything about med schools. I do think that undergrad prestige is a factor in admissions at top b-schools, but I have no idea how they factor that in.</p>