<p>LSAC does adjust the GPA’s to the same grading scale (A+ = 4.0, not 4.33) however it will not account for grade inflation/deflation at various colleges which is what I think snajean meant.</p>
<p>Raza and nihility, what school will you be choosing?</p>
<p>iiBoGo,</p>
<p>Thank you - that is what I meant.</p>
<p>LSAC: “members of law school admission committees understand that a particular grade earned at one college may not have the same meaning as the identical grade at another.”</p>
<p>true… but it still won’t hurt to have the highest gpa you can get. My son went to Harvard Law School - maybe his opinion is unfounded.</p>
<p>Emory has a very low acceptance rate to medical schools relative to its academic peers, including USC. They will tell you it’s because who they recommend and the number of students applying, but it’s a fact worth noting.</p>
<p>^I think it’s because our office didn’t give composite letters until 2 years ago.</p>
<p>From what I understand, that helped a lot.</p>
<p>And our acceptance rate is pretty high for people with 3.6+ and 30+. So, if you do well, then you’re fine.</p>
<p>Emory is an outstanding premed school with an excellent acceptance rate. They are one of the few schools that actually posts their med school acceptance numbers while most schools simply state an acceptance rate which truly has no meaning. Examine Cornell’s medical school acceptance graph and Emory’s graph. You will notice equality in the number of students accepted with similar GPA and MCAT scores. The difference is Emory has many more students apply with sub par GPA’s and sub par MCAT scores. As an example, for the 2009 year, 165 Emory applicants scored 30 or higher on the MCAT while 182 Cornell applicants scored 30 or higher. If you score 30 or higher on the MCAT and have a GPA of 3.5 or higher Emory’s acceptance rate over the past 2 years is 80%-85% while Cornell’s acceptance rate is 85%-86%. This begs the question why is Cornell’s overall acceptance rate 71% while Emory’s acceptance rate is 46%-48%. One explanation is Cornell’s data only includes students applying for the first time while Emory’s includes all Emory College applicants. Emory also has a high percentage of international students who tend to have difficulty gaining acceptance to an allopathic (MD) school. Moreover, many schools include acceptance to a DO school or a foreign medical school when calculating the medical acceptance rate. I could only find published data on Emory, Cornell, and Wash U. and find he other schools reluctance to provide such data highly suspicious when quoting such lofty medical acceptance numbers. As with all statistics, the devil is in the details. Emory is an outstanding premed school with great opportunities for meaningful undergraduate research, hospital volunteering, shadowing opportunities, and teaching opportunities as a supplemental instructor for the intro sciences. On a side note I also believe Cornell is an excellent premed school and this post is in no way an attempt to denigrate their program. Don’t take what schools tell you at face value. Statistics can be manipulated to support nearly anything someone or something is trying to sell you. Dig deeper and you will find the truth.</p>
<p>definitely emory</p>
<p>Forgot to mention, i am admitted by USC as well. one of the reasons why i didnt choose USC was because finding jobs might be a bit difficult, given that USC is kinda known as a party school (although USC is doing a lot better on erasing the name). Also, many USC alumni get their jobs through connections and not by skill (i know this because my highschool produces a lot of trojans)</p>