This obsession with GPA both in HS and UG is insane.
It is one of the reasons why kids these days in HS are under so much pressure - instead of just enjoying their childhoods and then rocking the finals/SATs/ACTs/IBs/AP exams, they have to 24x7 have their noses hard to the grindstone on busywork to keep their GPAs up.
For UG school it has become so absurd that I have seen several posts where Caltech graduates telling potential applicants not to bother if they plan on attending medical school. Because Caltech is one of the last bastions of academic rigor and honesty it is notoriously hard have a decent 3.9+ GPA. This puts medical schools off apparently. I would have expected medical schools to just look at the MCAT scores but NOOOOOO...
Last edited by madeinuk; 05/05/19 09:25 AM.
