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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure.

1. Look over prospective majors - what courses are required, how many hours, are the professors well-rated online. Pre-med requires a certain set of classes, but it is not a major, and major requirements can vary from campus to campus.
2. Pre-med population - are you 1 of 2000 students starting out pre-med or 1 of 400 and of what quality are those students? Average ACT, etc. are only directional but worth noting.
3. Social - is one more a party atmosphere that will suck a student in and away from their studies? Is the other a white knuckle cutthroat environment?
4. Pre-health advising - is there an advising office and is it well-rated online and by students - for example on other boards.
5. Some colleges show what % make it to med school - though they game the numbers at times. What if one school has a 60% med school acceptance for undergrads and the other 20%?
6. Does one school offer more opportunities for research and health-related activities that med schools want to see?

There are others - but I think this would be a good start.[/quote]

Thank you. I appreciate that you took the time to write out this response and a lot of it was helpful. But it doesn’t actually answer the question that I asked, which is how would you know the GPAs of likely med school applicants?

For context, I’ve often heard the same advice given to perspective law school applicants. Go where you’re likely to achieve a 3.99 rather than a place like Hopkins or Chicago. But how do you really _know_ ? It seems like conjecture and the presents are absence of a good advisor. Doesn’t really tell us whether organic is graded on a tight curve or not.[/quote]

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