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Posts: 1,208 Heck, even better, let's look at the Berkeley chart. Berkeley is not exactly known as a school that gives out easy grades (far from it, in fact), and yet look at the kinds of stats that med-schools demand from admitted Berkeley premeds. I see no evidence that med-schools provide any sort of "GPA-compensation" to Berkeley premeds. </p>
<p>Here's the MIT premed link. Notice the average GPA of admitted MIT premeds.</p>
<p>Not to be too inflammatory, but the evidence suggests that med-school adcoms are not all that interested in admitting the hardest-working or the most capable students. What they're really interested in is admitting those students with high grades, whether those students really are the hardest-working or most capable students or not. I think we would all agree that MIT engineers, on average, work harder than almost anybody else, yet med-school adcoms don't seem to care about that, for they still demand the same high grades from those MIT premeds that they demand from premeds from other schools. Some schools and some majors are harder than others, but med-schools don't really care.</p>