Originally posted by jlee9531
no...both candidates will most likely get accepted.
But time and time again, that isn't the case. I'm starting to realize though that if both of those (what were they?) 3.8/37s aren't EXACTLY what the school is looking for, then BOTH of them will get waitlisted. With those stats, they probably won't get rejected unless one of their interviewers absolutely despised them.
if the quality of education is lower at the lower tier school, then this particular student went above and beyond by scoring that 37. that deserves props and if i were an adcom id easily pick that student over the top tier one if i had to pick just one.
That is why I'd seriously PAY you to sit in on the admissions committee of a school I'm interviewing at
Uh-oh, here comes a Super Rob tangent: sometimes, I wonder
what makes the quality of an education at a lower tier school lower than the quality of an education at a higher tier school. At Who U, most of the professors had bachelors from Yale and doctorates from Harvard. This one science professor I had was a graduate of both the aforementioned institutions, had a thick accent, and was notoriously awful at teaching.
She would throw a fit if any of us asked a question. She'd roll her eyes at even the geekiest and kissassiest of gunners, and say something like "You kids at Who U don't know how to listen! Perhaps you should pay attention in class!" She'd say this kind of stuff to us at review sessions.
Now, maybe Who U undergrads are the Homer Simpsons of academia, but that professor had us reading from a medical level textbook (saw students reading it at Tufts, Einstein, and GW), and if there was anything "lower quality" about that class, it was attributable to her behavior... I wondered if the Ivy league schools called her up and were like... "psss, hey we know you're really one of US, so try not to do so well teaching those kids science. You're there to do research. You don't think the taxpayers and tuition payers really want their children to learn, do you??? What it boils down to is we don't want you to give those lil' bastards an edge on the MCAT cuz our medical schools only have so many waitlist spots available."