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I was at my school's advising office and took a look at the the stats of accepted students to various schools. All the applicants were from my school, UCLA. So I check the stats for people who got into UCLA. I was expecting many around 3.7 which is near the average GPA on USNEWS. How naive of me! I was pretty saddened as I saw the FACTS... the data, not the little speeches people always give us. There were essentially two groups. One group with NO LESS than 3.8 GPA, and another group with with several 3.3's a few 3.4 and a rare 3.5. The MCAT scores however were mostly around 33 or less, not the crazy 36-38 I was fearing. Well, given these numbers I can't help but make assumptions.
THE PC VERSION: I being an Asian male do not consider myself to be eligible to be included in the pool of 3.3 GPAs either because I am not a URM or because I do not have mind boggling life experiences. END OF PC VERSION
I assume that the group I should be looking at is the group with the 3.8+.
Looking at those numbers, I realized that UCLA's "whole person" mantra is bullsh_t. Is it so hard to believe that someone with less than a 3.8 is an interesting person worthy of acceptance? For goodness sake! I am not exaggerating folks, everyone had over 3.8, not 3.6, not 3.7. THIS IS ALSO NOT A PITY ME POST.
I had the Dean of UCLA Med give a long inspiring speech about how he wanted interesting people, not necessarily those who got 4.0's. I think he forgot to add the part that said "... as long as they have at least a 3.8"
I am very disillusioned by my findings
THE PC VERSION: I being an Asian male do not consider myself to be eligible to be included in the pool of 3.3 GPAs either because I am not a URM or because I do not have mind boggling life experiences. END OF PC VERSION
I assume that the group I should be looking at is the group with the 3.8+.
Looking at those numbers, I realized that UCLA's "whole person" mantra is bullsh_t. Is it so hard to believe that someone with less than a 3.8 is an interesting person worthy of acceptance? For goodness sake! I am not exaggerating folks, everyone had over 3.8, not 3.6, not 3.7. THIS IS ALSO NOT A PITY ME POST.
I had the Dean of UCLA Med give a long inspiring speech about how he wanted interesting people, not necessarily those who got 4.0's. I think he forgot to add the part that said "... as long as they have at least a 3.8"
I am very disillusioned by my findings