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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at an elite with high percentage acceptance rate. Can’t claim I know all the nuisance, but everyone that started with them is still going. No one is weeded out, some just require gap year to have more time for all the extras needed. [/quote]

This low weed out could only happen at S, Y, H.  But we know a lot of SYH kids switched to finance or tech in sophomore year.  So,  not really.[/quote]

Not true at all. Duke gives very few Cs for my premed there all the friends sill premed. DS at an ivy for Bioengineering has lots of premed friends and they also have very little premed or engineering weedout. These schools select students who can get through the curriculum—engineering school has 98% continue in engineering from first to second year. Premed drops the school does not count but he knows no one who dropped, engineer or not. The ones with more Bs than As are spacing out stem and planning a gap year. B+ is the median in science classes with 40% usually getting A- and A. Rising junior, orgo and all the hard stuff is already done for them—weedout would have happened. The school data says 93% with 3.6+ get in, though with a school average of 518 and gpa 3.7 its less surprising success so high[/quote]

Duke cum laude gpa ~3.9.  
A gpa of 3.6, 3.7 sounds awful.  Awful![/quote]

DP. Yes the top 25% cutoff is around 3.95 now. Average is around 3.8+. Duke premed shares data with their students: A 3.6 is below average for sure yet a very large portion get into at least one US MD school with 3.6. A 3.8+ is enough for a T30 med depending on other factors. Top schools have different outcomes as the student pool is not typical. [/quote]

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