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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what people mean when they talk about kids being weeded out of pre-med classes.  Tons of kids plan to go pre-med, but do not get there because STEM does not come easy to them.  There's no reason to fight your own strengths.  Why not encourage your child to try another area where your child may naturally be stronger?[/quote]

~ 80 % of premed students don’t make it to medical school. You can still pursue nursing/teaching careers , though.
For docs IQ range is [b]105- 125[/b] or so on average. Below that problems arise. [/quote]
That's quite low.  Imagine being treated by someone with 105 ... [/quote]

Because it is total made-up BS. Every single kid in my med school was in the gifted program (usually 93-95th%ile) or at some fancy test-in private school as a kid, and I did not go to a T10med like wife did. We came from colleges all over, elite and non, but we were all high achieving students in high school. 
My med school admissions consulting group advises dozens of students every year and we recently started sharing masked data with a similar group who does it in the Boston area. We get SAT and PSAT scores, AP, and the undergrad transcript as a part of our MCAT-prep recommendations. The borderline kids usually have MCAT 495-505 on the first attempt and have already been through a rejection cycle. Their most common SAT range for this group is mid to high 1300s or about 92-95%ile, with PSAT is usually above 90th%ile sometimes lower. PSAT as an onetime non superscore often hints they will have Mcat trouble more than the SAT.  These are the borderline kids over half of which will never get in to med school even with our services. SAT is not an IQ test but there is some correlation. 92-95percentile is not an IQ of 105 (63rd percentile). 
Top kids (515+) who only want essay editing and interview coaching almost always had 1500+ on the SAT (ie 98-99 percentile/IQ likely 125-140+). Those kids get in to at least one med school no problem, they just want to go to the top med schools.

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