Obviously you haven't met those in my program. Some of those people didn't do so hot on the DAT, some dude had like a 13 in the PAT, but had like a 3.96 GPA, got into University of Toronto, which in my opinion is like 10 times harder to get into than most US schools and somewhat harder to get into than Ivy Leagues. The people in my program have like an average GPA of 3.75. It is like a pre-med/pre-dental/pre-professional factory. Though only been running for four years, there's like so far after 3rd year 26+ people who left for dental school and med school. For U of T dental school, there is like a 100% acceptance rate for those applied and received an interview. The program uses its political power (hardest program to get into in Canada the is pre-health, so you know the students are good) in the school to ensure the students get good marks and give glowing references (many faculty have MD and PhD's , or are leaders in research). Even then, we have WAY higher averages than those who are in the regualr Science program in our school and OWN them in the same courses where the Health Science faculty have no control (no playing with marks). Avin, you can ask your cousin. He knows about my program. Because the first class is graduating soon (this year), there are no figures of acceptances for every program but so far I know dental is ~99%, 100% with interview and projected to have a 60%-70% medical acceptance, and 100% for grad school, so there's a ~75-80% acceptance rate for students into some sort of post grad program. The each class has about 100-110 people, though they have accepted more later on.... What other program can do that?
So I don't know how much the DAT counts because I know that if most of you guys were to go academically face to face with some of the people in my class, you'd get owned. I think that's why GPA does matter, it reflects consistency and long term ability. Now mind you some of us have gotten well above 20's as well. Actually many of us. But there are those who didn't yet they have stellar GPAs and are very well rounded. So my point is that some of these people might not have done as well on the DAT as I did (over 20's) they would have a stronger GPA than even mine, so that would put them in the same league as me. I've worked with these people, i know who they are, their ability, and know them personally since we are a tight knit group. Believe me to those who say GPA doesn't matter it does. On stuff like the DAT, sometimes you get LUCKY breaks, it is multiple choice after all...sometimes it is luck that determines whether you get like a 20 and a 26..(it doesn't vary much, just like 2 or 3 more correct answers) I mean everyone who is a science student if studied enough should do relatively decent on the DAT. It is the nerves or personality factors sometimes that keep people from doing well.....But these people are people who I don't want to be around, hence why I am taking so long to make my decision.
BECAUSE MOST OF THEM I DON'T LIKE. A lot of them are GEEKS and real try-hards!
