<p>I always hear on CC that med school admission is only slightly less numbers-based than law school. Yet I feel some professional schools leading to healthcare professions are more numbers-based than law school. So here I ask, what are the most and least numbers-based admissions in healthcare graduate education?</p>
<p>I may be totally off but here is my opinion on the matter, from most numbers-based to least numbers-based:</p>
<p>I thought that Pharm is kind of easy to get into. I might be incorrect. It is correct htough that pahrm is much easier to get into than Med. School, Dental, not sure about Chiro (isn’t this one is part of DO?). And you have missed Optometry, again, I heard that it is harder to get into Optometry than Med. School (very few Optometry schools)</p>
<p>When you ask for a rank of most to least numbers based, do you mean most to least competitive or most to least emphasis on numbers? A program can admit solely based on numbers without requiring very high numbers while med school requires very high numbers but once you’re above a certain amount increase from higher numbers becomes drastically smaller and many non factors become much more important.</p>
<p>Law school doesn’t even interview applicants and you’re trying to tell me med school is more numbers based?</p>
When people talk about the difficulty of getting into a law school vs a med school, they refer to the difficulty of getting into one of the T14 law schools vs any med school. Otherwise, I think there is no comparison. Also, I believe the “value” or “job prospect” of getting into a lower-tier law school is generally perceived as being quite limited.</p>
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I heard the opposite. The admission to the majority of top law schools is almost all number game. YLS may be an exception here as you need to be accepted by everyone in the admission committee - so the soft factors matter for this law school, just like the admission to a med school, and its graduates are encouraged to go into public services mostly. (So I do not think most of the admission committee there would prefer those applicants who show signs of joining a top law firm in the future to rake in money by working to almost death.)</p>
<p>But softs definitely are a big factor in medical physics. And not just about any softs: research experience is the most valued soft in that field.</p>
<p>I’m somewhat confused…are you implying the med school is easier to get accepted to than law school because SOM consider ECs? Med schools look at GPA and MCATS every bit as much as law schools, but they want you to have phenomenal ECs in addition not in lieu of scores. Med school is unarguably more difficult to get into than law school as evidenced by acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Medicine is by far more difficult to get into that any other field. There are simply too few med schools for the number of applicants. The most important factor in admission to law is your gpa/LSAT score, but students with lesser stats can still get into law. </p>
<p>For medicine, you’ll need - aside from GPA and Mcat score - research/ECs/shadowing. Many applicants try and retry, go to a post-doc program and retake their MCAT if they weren’t succcessful that first time.</p>
<p>In terms of ranking, consider the number of years needed to finally practice. Medicine is a major commitment: 4 year for med school, plus internship, plus residency, plus fellowship - depending on the speciality. Other concentrations have a lower bar to enter, such a chiropractic, and much shorter training time, and probably far fewer testings. Law is a 3-year stint.</p>
<p>It’s not about how easy/hard to get into, but how much weight numerical factors hold. Sure, pharmacy is a lot easier to get into than medicine (dental, vet, allopathic)… and it’s quite numbers-heavy last I heard about that.</p>