IVY vs State full ride PRE-MED

mini
Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:28:28 +0000

“You are comparing tuition-paying med school admission to tuition/stipend-paid grad school admission. Very different situations, even if it is hard to gain humanity/social science phd acceptance (with money).”

Well, of course I am! I am also comparing the admissions requirement into a profession where the average salary is around $70k v. medicine, where the average salary can be… Especially relative to income (and a guaranteed job!) it is much, much easier to get into med. school.

“Especially PhD programs where evaluations can be very subjective considering LORs are the most important factor in the application…”

In most of the Ph.D. programs I know, GREs and GPAs are the beginning point for consideration. They do count much less in the final evaluation, but without them, you don’t get to the final evaluation.