<p>pediatrics (oncology)?</p>
<p>For college? Doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>For med school? Doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>For residency? CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) which is an affiliate of Penn Med</p>
<p>thanks norcalguy</p>
<p>Agree with norcalguy. The thing you do want to watch is grade deflation, which makes med school harder to get into. Cornell is the well know ivy for grade deflation and H and P have recently toughened grading standards.</p>
<p>Don’t med schools (and for that matter, all grad schools) consider each schools’ respective policies on grade inflation? It seems ludicrous that grad schools would think the same of a 3.9 from Cornell and a 3.9 from a la-la land of no academic requirements and unlimited Pass-fail like Brown…</p>
<p>Unless you’re PLME, you can’t take your premed prereq’s pass/fail at Brown. To be perfectly honest, I’m not so sure that Cornell is less grade inflated than Brown. Cornell’s average GPA is in the 3.4 range. I don’t know what Brown’s is but I doubt it’s much higher. People make a big deal about grading differences b/w top schools with Cornell, JHU, UChicago, MIT on one side and Brown/Harvard/Yale on the other side. But, if you look at the actual stats for Cornell, MIT, etc. they are not grade deflated at all.</p>
<p>I’ve said it many times and I am going to do this again:</p>
<p>ALMOST ALL TOP SCHOOLS HAVE COMPARABLE GRADE INFLATION. This whole Cornell/Chicago on one side and Harvard/Stanford on the other is just BS. Median grade reports at Cornell have been available to the public for quite a while and there’s no shortage of A/A- as the median. I am not sure why it’s still “well known for grade deflation”. Actually, those reports make me think they may even be on the generous side (even I said most schools’ grading policy are comparable). <a href=“http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeSP08.pdf[/url]”>http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeSP08.pdf</a></p>
<p>I’ve been looking at resumes from all the top schools for decades. Unless I’m just getting the bottom of the Cornell pool for some reason, GPA’s there look notably lower than other ivies. Harvard, which I know is in the process of changing this, on the other hand has few who do not graduate with high GPA’s and honors.</p>
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<p>That’s the problem. The median grade reports have only been around the last few years and have caused massive grade inflation now that Cornell students have the opportunity to pick and choose courses based on grading. </p>
<p>[Grade</a> Inflation at Cornell](<a href=“http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/grade_inflation_at_cornell/]Grade”>Grade Inflation at Cornell – Outside the Beltway)</p>
<p>Graduating with honors is a separate issue since, for many majors, Cornell requires research and a thesis in addition to a good GPA to graduate with honors (in contrast to a strictly-GPA based system like Harvard’s). For example, I had a 3.94 GPA at Cornell but never considered graduating with honors since I’d have to spend a summer at Cornell doing full-time research, write a thesis, revise it 30 times, and defend it in front of a committee. It wasn’t worth it to me.</p>