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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I get your point but I don't know if I buy your story."
The med school admissions comm poster also disagrees.

Anybody who has read the Hopwood V. UTexas case knows that profs reviewing applications will adjust down for grades earned at a "lesser" school. If that weren't the case, Cheryl Hopwood's junior college 2-yr accounting degree grades and Cal State grades would have gotten her into UT Austin Law and we'd never have heard of her.[/quote]

You can adjust whatever you want but when you have someone who graduated with a history degree from HYP has work experience then did a Postbacc career changer with a 4.0 (smaller and grade inflated) and a top MCAT (easier to do well when aren’t worried about competing in classes) then that app looks amazing. Plenty of people in my post bacc had physician parents who did the same and are residents/ fellows now. No one cared where I did my science courses and if I did them at my competitive university I wouldn’t have done as well period.  [b]You don’t have to believe me[/b]- doesn’t change the truth. [/quote]

I certainly don't. [/quote]

Well I guess I better check myself as apparently my medical degree is made up 🙄. The point is that you want to have a high science GPA and a high overall GPA. Figure out what kind of learner you are and take the classes at a place that supports that (maybe not at a community college but def can get away with state school). Then make sure your MCAT score is above 80th percentile. Get great recommendations and experiences and that’s the formula for having a shot. Doesn’t matter where you do the classes - maybe some med schools care but a lot care more about the numbers. [/quote]

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