godeacsplate
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Might have considered it for my granddaughter until I saw that video. Oof.
probably farming right
Shouldn’t all med school students be at the top of their class regardless of where they went to undergrad?
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?
Go to App for a year, establish residency, then transfer to UNC.
I've never been on APP's sports message board, but if it has only 5 pages on a 2021 football season thread and another 1,388 on one about Ferguson/fascism, that would be a red flag for me.
If you pull a 3.8 at App and a 2.8 at Wake, I don't think the grad school is going to get a boner over the Wake applicant. And all that being around smart, motivated people didn't do a whole lot for me when I found the smart people who liked to drink beer and get high. Ultimately, in college you have to discipline yourself no matter where you go.
But regardless, App is a much better school than it was 30 years ago. It's not great, but it is what I would categorize as somewhere between decent and good. And again, much of it depends on what she wants to study. Every school has certain programs which are its strength and you can get a quality education in that particular area of study for a bargain if you're smart about it. App has its good programs like everywhere else.
That school snobbery I used to have went out the window pretty quick when I started looking at schools for somebody other than myself.
I agree with the bolded - it's a numbers game these days and grad schools mostly care about the numbers. But if all else is equal, the Wake grad would (and should) get preference over the App grad. There's a difference.
What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?
I can give some insight into this since I'm a physician.
I had slightly above average grades at Wake- but nothing chart topping. My initial attempt at Med School was unsuccessful (not surprising). I spent two years taking a ton of upper level biology and chemisty classes at ECU- made a 4.0 and promptly got into their med school -where I finished near the top of my class. It was a bit strange to be in class with kids from "lesser" schools who clearly had better grades than me in undergrad. In some ways I felt like my lower GPA coming from Wake really hurt me in the admissions game. I often felt like I would have been better to get a 3.9 at App or ECU and gone straight into med school. But all water under the bridge. And just one person's experience.
bruh, don't send your kid to app
We can’t assume a sub-3.0 GPA at Wake automatically translates to a 4.0 at a state school.
Not talking about BacktoBack specifically, it’s certainly possible an undergrad guy was more concerned with girls and drinking. But once he graduated and got a little older, he knew what he wanted to do and was more focused the second time around.