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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Er, the average grade at Duke is an A, 3.5. Grade inflation much? Must be real “hard”.

At Duke, everyone is a winner! [/quote]

I worked in admissions at a very competitive graduate program (think top tier law or medical school) and most transcripts we got had the student's %ile in their undergrad on it. For schools like Harvard, it was printed right next to the GPA on the official transcript. That %ile was what we looked at. [/quote]

Interesting. If you have a kid who is 50%tile from top tier vs a 90%tile kid from state U. How would you compare?[/quote]

This is where the MCAT plays a huge role in comparing kids from disparate schools. GPA does matter--very difficult to get in if it is below 3.6. In addition, they will look at the quality and quantity of clinical and shadowing experience and community volunteering and research work (latter mostly for top tier med school, also known as the research med schools).  [/quote]

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