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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At any top school pre med will.be brutal. [/quote]

premed is brutal everywhere. what makes you think "top schools" are unique? [/quote]

It’s been covered up thread, [b]classes are more difficult and competition is stiffer.[/b] [/quote]

Statements like this drive me nuts. How do you know exactly? Have you attended all of them? [/quote]

When you have experience working with multiple premeds who come from many different schools, you start to gather data on what the tests are like, what the syllabus covers, how prepared they are for the MCAT comparing similar SAT scores going into different colleges. The elites in general have much more demanding coursework including the exams(most or all of the grade at elites). The peers add a different layer: when the majority of peers are the kind who were top of the high school, have high scores, love to learn and have very high work ethic/discipline with studies it can be hard to compete against them. When the grading curves are taken into account (80% get Bs and As) it helps but it is not “easy” for most to be above average and get a 3.8+ in that setting. [/quote]

Precisely which is why it is a bit of a risk choosing this path. It will pay off but it won’t be the easiest route. [/quote]

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