“Plus you know they find ways to pass those who shouldn’t pass.”
At less than a 1% washout rate, you know they are. Med school was once a tough school. I know of no other school that has less than a 1% washout rate.
I know a previous professor in the humanities at Harvard who was outright told that she could neither flunk nor give the lowest passing grade to any racial minorities in her classes.
I am sure such policies apply elsewhere, though perhaps communicated less overtly.