Could you use real numbers instead of magical ones.
Look at some of these schools where the average GPA is 3.0-3.2. Thats quite a few people with low GPA, not just
30.
http://www.aacp.org/resources/student/pharmacyforyou/admissions/Documents/Table 8.pdf
And some schools don't even consider PCAT score or considers a 50% or above. If you score a 50% tile on the MCAT of DAT you might as well forget it.
http://www.aacp.org/resources/stude...s/Documents/School Admission Requirements.pdf
Hmmm
I consider 3.0-3.2 is still acceptable or competative. This is PharmCAS gpa here. There is a possibility that those students have gotten those GPA with the first try of their classes. Some of these people might actually have up to 3.3-3.6 GPA, and they were brought down because of PharmCAS's standardized GPA calculation technique. Whatever the GPAs are, probaly best to add .3+ extra point to it IMO.
And if you consider a population of students who applied, lets say 10,000, a rough estimate from the list, in relation to the complete pool of student universally, the Pharmacy school don't really have the luxury of choosing only candidates with high GPA.
Outside the 10,000 applicants who applied, I'm sure there might be another 10,000 with 3.8-4.4 GPA whose interests are in basic science like chemistry, biology, physics, engineer, and other non medical field like English.
Pharmacy schools have to let these other kids go because these students don't care about Pharmacy. Pharmcy schools then have to look at the ones who care. Back to the original 10,000 population who applied, if they were all robot AI, then they will all earn 4.0+... however, these are non-robot applicant so the phenominal of a pool of applicant with all high GPA is unrealistic.
If Pharmacy schools are lucky, they'll get a HANDFUL of high GPA applicants. So what's left? Applicants below the "high" threshold. You can just take the high GPA applicants and not admit anyone else. This will ensure only high GPA applicants get in. However, this would also result in a surplus of empty seats at the pharmacy school.
With high GPA candidates running out, what is left? the "lower" candidates. You either pick them, fill out your class seats, or reject them, have a surplus of seats.
If you were the schools, would you rather a reputation of HIGH GPA and low class enrollment? or GOOD GPA (3.0-3.2 you consider low) and full class enrollment?
Because IMO, they run out of the "good" ones to pick from, and they only have the "average" ones left, assuming we ignore all humane factor and only systematically judge a person based on a number, ofc.
So they probably do it your way OT, all high GPA people are picked... but they are FORCED to pick the lower one afterward too. This will mean that the GPA get averaged down to what you see on those lists.
It's probably normal to assume that there are low GPA applicants and an UNLIMITED number of HIGH GPA applicants, and some low applicants were preffered over the unlimited high GPA applicants; but this is not the case in reality IMO.
