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Hi everyone,
I?m new to the forum and I really enjoy reading the useful threads here.
I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. I wish you guys could give me some feedback.
The question is if med schools consider applicants? GPA with respect to their majors or not? That is do they consider certain GPA (say 3.80) from all the majors as equally competitive?
I am an engineering major student and I?ll be senior next semester. My overall GPA is 4.0 and I worked really hard for this. In my university all the engineering majors has to take about 3 to 4 more classes than liberal arts and science majors and premed classes such as bio, organic chem, and bio chem are not considered as electives toward engineering major so all of them have to be taken as extra classes.
As many people know, engineering classes are a lot tougher than other majors. But I hear some people say med schools only consider the GPA, but don?t care about which major was that GPA earned from. I think this is very unfair because I am sure that I would be able to obtain the same GPA much easier if I had majored in say business, psychology, nutrition, or biological sciences (no offence to people in these majors).
Does any body know if med schools really don?t care about which major the GPA is from, or they take in the difficulties of majors in to account?
thanks
I?m new to the forum and I really enjoy reading the useful threads here.
I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. I wish you guys could give me some feedback.
The question is if med schools consider applicants? GPA with respect to their majors or not? That is do they consider certain GPA (say 3.80) from all the majors as equally competitive?
I am an engineering major student and I?ll be senior next semester. My overall GPA is 4.0 and I worked really hard for this. In my university all the engineering majors has to take about 3 to 4 more classes than liberal arts and science majors and premed classes such as bio, organic chem, and bio chem are not considered as electives toward engineering major so all of them have to be taken as extra classes.
As many people know, engineering classes are a lot tougher than other majors. But I hear some people say med schools only consider the GPA, but don?t care about which major was that GPA earned from. I think this is very unfair because I am sure that I would be able to obtain the same GPA much easier if I had majored in say business, psychology, nutrition, or biological sciences (no offence to people in these majors).
Does any body know if med schools really don?t care about which major the GPA is from, or they take in the difficulties of majors in to account?
thanks