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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't worry about grade inflation/deflation for med school applications.  I talked to someone that used to be on admissions committee for a top med school and he said they are how the various schools grade, and they take that into consideration.

The trimester system for premed is really challenging, I will say that.

Do the premeds have more fun at Brown?  Or UMd?  Or ASU?  I don't know.[/quote]
I spoke with someone at a top med school admissions committee and I asked if RPI (infamous for extreme grade deflation) got a boost and if Brown got a boost. They said Brown gets a boost in their system while RPI does not. So to me it seems to be more about the prestige in the eyes of the admissions committee than the grading practices.[/quote]

Yeah? School name and who told you this? Bc it is all made up[/quote]

I have also read this in a few places, that there are tiers and the top one gets a slight bump. I don't recall the cut-off but basically Ivies/Ivy+. It was different sources, but I can't claim to know for sure. My kid's premed advising also says its true.[/quote]

100% there are tiers. I used to serve on a T5 med admissions committee and have kept in the loop. Kid's ivy premed advising is a different institution and they say the same thing. They have a top ranked medical school themselves. They send data of the overall undergrad GPA distribution plus that for different schools (Engineering is lower) plus the distribution of MCAT scores related to GPA. Most of it is available for the undergrads. As an ivy they are "Tier 1" and get a small boost. [/quote]

Glad to hear and didn’t think their premed advisor would be planting that seed if untrue.[/quote]

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