Rank these professional schools based on how numbers-heavy admissions

limabeans
Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:06:32 +0000

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.

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.

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.