Sensing Change: On Adding a Psychological Touch of Grit to Conventional Medical School Selection Criteria [Response to Letter]

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Nasser AN Alzerwi Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Ministry of Education, Al-Majmaah City, Riyadh Region, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Nasser AN AlzerwiDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine, Majmaah University, Ministry of Education, P. O. Box 66, Al-Majmaah City, Riyadh Region 11952, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaTel [phone]Fax [phone]Email [email protected] I thank Rizvi and Zehra for their valuable critique of my article “Effects of Grit on the Academic Performance of Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study at Majmaah University”.1 The fact that a student’s GPA is  calculated at the end of each academic year makes the beginning of the following academic year an excellent time to conduct the study, to ensure that the last reported GPA corresponds to the academic efforts for the previous academic year. Additionally, this study makes no claim regarding the predictive power of the grit score; rather, it examines the association between grit score and academic performance parameters, as explained in the limitations paragraph in the Discussion section of the article.   This is in response to the Letter to the Editor   View the original paper by Alzerwi