<p>I got into Princeton and Upenn and i cant decide which one i should go to. I hear that medical schools care mostly about GPA and MCAT and extracurriculars and im worried that if i go to princeton with their grade deflation i will not have as high of a GPA as one at Penn. Can someone break down and detail the strenghts and weaknesses of going to wither school. Also Penn has the hospitals and research.
But who would pass up the chance to go to Princeton University?
I need some advice</p>
<p>If you want to do Pre-Med, Penn is one of the best in the world according to U.S. News Rankings. Princeton is a great school and is overall higher ranked, but it is more well known for law. Penn’s medical school is the second best in the country and undergraduate research opportunities are more readily available. If you decide to go to Princeton, you may be successful, you may not. Penn is just as rigorous and there is also grade deflation. Do not think Penn is less than Princeton. Medical schools look at where you are coming from and they know a 3.3 GPA from a Cornell is just as good as a 3.8 from Villanova. I talked to an admissions councilor at Drexel College of Medicine about grade deflation.</p>
<p>Yeah, don’t decide to come to Penn thinking that it will be easier to get As in premed classes. All my premed friends constantly complain about the difficulty level of the classes here, especially orgo, and its a lot of the intense competition to get As.</p>