Specifically in New York, California, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Chicago?
I am wondering which colleges are easier to maintain a good GPA for Pre Med/Graduate School.
Thanks!
So are you saying you want to find a school that will give you better grades than you deserve? I’m not sure I’d want a doctor that took that route.
I agree with @Muad_dib^^^ It won’t do you any good to get easier grades because admission to med school includes an MCAT score. If you can’t get decent earned grades, you aint getting decent MCAT scores.
Plus, most colleges in California don’t do a “premed” major. You have to earn a degree in a subject, and it is NOT easy.
Oh, man. There are plenty of easy colleges where only the most ardent students really learn- and I mean both in academic terms and about mastering challenges. An inflated gpa is just air, unless you seriously dig in.
I think you need to learn what it really takes to get into med school. And how to be ready for it.
Sometimes I think it’s easy to give mixed messages here at CC. There are many threads encouraging students to NOT attend a rigorous university because the primary things medical schools will look at are GPA and MCAT scores. The OP’s question presents the opposite side of the coin. I think the question should be not whether the school is easy but will it prepare you well for medical school and I think taking the MCATs (I don’t know if your undergraduate prerequisite coursework is designed to prepare you for the MCAT). I know students who have gone to less selective schools and done well for themselves and were accepted into medical school and students who have gone to less selective schools, done well in the classes but did not score high enough on the MCATs and did not go into medical school. Most of all I know a lot of students who went to less selective schools who wanted to go to medical school but could not handle the prerequisite courses at their “easy” schools and changed their direction.
Colleges with grade inflation tend not to publish their medical school acceptance stats for obvious reasons.
But you have to wonder how many of those successful at getting into medical school took that route, or (at any university) deliberately sought “easy A” courses (outside of the pre-med course requirements) to protect their GPAs for medical school application purposes.
Honest answer – if you go to a school where your stats are on the higher end of the applicant pool, you have better odds of a good GPA. But the premed courses aren’t easy at any school, and you still have to do well on the MCAT.
Imo, the key issue, as OP wrote it, is looking for grade inflation. Most kids ask about how to improve chances of success. There are colleges where premed courses are cooperative, about the right prep, as opposed to harsh weeding as a tool. Eg, some women’s colleges. But thinking in terms of inflation is so incomplete.