Originally posted by BerkeleyPremed
For someone who complains about people not reading SDN posts carefully enough, you sure make some egregious errors when you try to comprehend posts here. Since I already proved you wrong on that point (I never posted any organic chem exams nor have I whined about their difficulty), we'll just move on to the rest of the blithering idiocy that you called a "post." "Anyway, you still have not addressed that Duke premeds are better than Berkeley premeds because Duke's medical school is ranked top 5. I think this is an error in judgment but by your logic I'm right!" How do you compare Duke premeds and Berkeley premeds based on the quality of their respective medical schools when Berkeley doesn't even have a medical school? lol. First of all, you've already made two glaring errors in that statement. Saying that the quality of a graduate school correlates loosely with the quality of undergraduate school at the same institution is not the same as saying that the quality of a PROFESSSIONAL school correlates loosely with the quality of the undergraduate school at the same institution. I said the former of the two...not the latter. Medical school is not a graduate school...it's a professional school. Law school is also not a graduate school...it's a professional school. Because Boalt Hall (Berkeley's law school) is ranked in the top 15, does that mean that Berkeley's prelaws are also in the top 15 in the country? NO. In many cases, the faculty that teaches in the professional school will never teach the undergraduates of that institution. However, this is not the case with the faculty that teaches graduate school. Secondly, you assume that every undergraduate school is complemented by a medical school. Does Princeton have a medical school? No. Doesn't Princeton have a strong undergraduate studenty body? Yes. Does Carnegie Mellon have a medical school? No. Does Berkeley have a medical school? No. I know you don't actually believe in that statement...but you stated that by my logic...it would make sense. All I'm saying is that I never stated that a good medical school correlates with having a good premed student body because I know that the two are not even loosely correlated. I also never stated that undergraduate programs could be ranked according to the graduate school rankings. However, I do believe there is a correlation between the two and that faculty quality matters in both cases.