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I have watched several of my high school friends go to their ivy league universities in hopes of becoming doctors. Two of these graduated high school with 4.00GPAs. Now can anyone predict their outcome? They began their journey through college with C averages. Now how is it that valedictorians diminish their GPAs beyond repair with their full effort in place? I can tell you that ivy league universities were not created to spit out doctor babies. No, they are established to create "out of the box" thinkers that have no intentions of going to grad school. You can not expect someone to stay above the curve at a normal pace with ECs and so forth.
Now I have told this to countless pre-med students and they scoff at me until they too fall victim to the elite university game. Go to a school that doesn't grade on the curve and has smaller class sizes. You will get to know your professor and have more time for ECs and everything else. I can promise the prestige behind your school is not going to matter as long as you have a high GPA. Comparatively if you have a 4.00 GPA and a kid from Harvard has a 4.00 GPA (doubt it), you will probably have better ECs. Community college is a great start and not one medical school is going to give a **** as long as you do fine with upper level class work in a university. Getting into medical school doesn't have to be as hard as everyone tries making it.
Now I have told this to countless pre-med students and they scoff at me until they too fall victim to the elite university game. Go to a school that doesn't grade on the curve and has smaller class sizes. You will get to know your professor and have more time for ECs and everything else. I can promise the prestige behind your school is not going to matter as long as you have a high GPA. Comparatively if you have a 4.00 GPA and a kid from Harvard has a 4.00 GPA (doubt it), you will probably have better ECs. Community college is a great start and not one medical school is going to give a **** as long as you do fine with upper level class work in a university. Getting into medical school doesn't have to be as hard as everyone tries making it.