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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Highest med school placements
1. Harvard
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Duke
4. UPenn
5. Stanford
6. WashU
7. Rice
8. Northwestern
9. Brown
10. UNC Chapel Hill

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So many of these schools [b]weed out all but 10% of the "pre meds." [/b]

It'd not like you matriculate there and go to medical school 4 yrs later. 
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False. I do not know about Rice and UNC, but all of the rest do not have weed-outs or barriers to med-admissions committee letters. Truly banning one from applying did not even happen at most of these 30 years ago, today it happens at almost none. 
The committees advise to take a gap year or two and spread out courses if the GPA is under a certain level, but there are no bans. 
Read the premed advising sections of these schools. We have premeds at two of the ones in the top 6 and many family and friends at the rest of this list and other schools(CLemson, Emory). None of them have gatekeeping for letters. For all but UNC,  the GPAs are inflated to the extent that the median is 3.75-3.9 for overall undergrads as well as premeds. These schools have tables on GPA vs MCAT and acceptance to MD programs. On average at the 1-9 schools, a below-average GPA of 3.5 leads to med school acceptance 60% of the time. 3.7 and above is 90-95% depending on the school. We did our homework and got data from every parent who had a kid there. Weedouts do not happen. Cs are given only rarely, even intro courses have B+ averages. It is not the same as it used to be. [/quote]

I don’t think you understand weed out correctly.  Getting a C in or go is a weed out.  Having a science gpa under 3.3 is a weed out.  It doesn’t refer to committee letter.[/quote]

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