Georgetown SMP grading curve

[caseofthemndays]

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I haven't read any threads that answer this question directly: Are Georgetown, Drexel and other high profile SMP's curved with the med school class or only with the SMP students? It seems as though it would be much easier to excel if you are only competing against people who also didn't do super well in undergrad. Any thoughts on this and how many go from SMP to that med school?

 

[TheGalvaniFrog]

Georgetown is curved against the med students. I think the other ones are the same.

 

[kidthor]

At the Georgetown SMP we have med classes and grad classes. For the med classes, the med students are curved as a group, and then we are given a grade according to how we fall into that curve - so we're technically not curved "against" anybody. For the grade classes, we are curved against the other SMPs, but the curve is way more generous than the med curve.

I haven't read any threads that answer this question directly: Are Georgetown, Drexel and other high profile SMP's curved with the med school class or only with the SMP students? It seems as though it would be much easier to excel if you are only competing against people who also didn't do super well in undergrad. Any thoughts on this and how many go from SMP to that med school?

 

[SoMD]

I'm currently in the SMP...

You take med classes and grad classes.

For med classes, you're graded against the med students' curve. If they got an average of 81, an 87 is probably a B+. Even if the SMP students had an average of 75 or 90, an 87 is going to be a B+ and so on. Your grades don't depend on the performance of your fellow SMPers; they depend on how the med students do. So, theoretically, if every SMP student gets, say, a 95, every SMP student will get an A. The same doesn't go for the med students since they are the ones establishing the curve.

For grad classes, some professors curve and others don't really curve too much. For those classes, the curve depends on the performance of anyone taking the class.