Easiest med schools M.D/D.O schools to get into

MiamiDAP
Thu, 04 Jun 2015 01:01:14 +0000

As different caliber applicants appliy to each place (while difference is really minimal, there is still a difference between college GPA = 3.7 and 3.9) and every place has about 5000 applicants for about 200 spots (or less), I do not see how one place could be less competitive than another. It is like races are in different heats - in swimming, there are 6 - 8 swimmers in each heat. Heats are put together based on a swimmer’s personal best time. Who is to say that the fastest heat is more cmpetitive than the slowest? Surely for competitiors, there is still only one heat winner and only one who took a second place and so forth. So, applicant is still competing for the same number of spots with the same number of applicants at the “best” place and at the lowest ranked place. But just as for the fast swimmer it would take no effort to win in the slow heat, the same here. If a very high caliber applicant applied to a very low ranked school, he has a better chance, that is if adcom does not decide that the applicant is such a mismatch that to invite him to an interview would be a complete waste of time as he would not choose this school. This type of thinking actually is very common during residency application, maybe not so much in Med. school application cycle.
On the other note, to be accepted at any American Med. School is a great accomplishement (including DO schools)