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[quote=Anonymous][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]

When fewer than 10% get Cs and 3.3 is well below the bottom quartile, there are very few indeed being weeded out from med school at elites due to grade inflation. One C does not weed you out, if you figure out the issue you can have a 3.8 by senior year, take the gaps as recommended and get into an MD program in the USA.  
If you cannot get above 3.3 at an elite you did not belong there in the first place. 30 years ago, below the average GPA at an elite was enough to weed you out. Now only 10% are "weeded out" to use your definition. They can and do apply with 3.3 or a couple of Cs: if they want to get in they listen to the committee, do a post-bacc at GTown or other top ones, and because they came from an elite with highly competitive peers, they almost always can finish top-half there and go to med school with 2-3 gap years. 
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