Not that I'm aspiring to get into the easiest med school, of course, I'm just comparing to make sure that being a doctor won't be impossible for me before I seriously consider it as a career.
2007-01-31 10:45:58 · 4 answers · asked by Stardust 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Hmm. I sort of realized that my question is a little ambiguous. Maybe I should have said, "How difficult is it to be accepted at one of the easiest med schools to get into?" Or something to that effect. I often fail at wording things right.
2007-01-31 10:56:46 · update #1
I'm asking because I have a 3.02 GPA. It would normally be higher, but my grades sorta...plummeted this semester. No F's or D's or anything, but a few C's in some of my harder courses.
2007-01-31 10:59:38 · update #2
Lea's right. With your current grades, it'll be hard enough to get into nursing, dental, or pharmacy schools. Those professions that are looked down on by med students cuz they've got a god complex.
2007-01-31 12:31:10 · answer #1 · answered by Linkin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
medical school. Medical schools require pre-med courses. Law school there are no requirements. In fact you can take any course you want, it doesn't have to be law courses. I don't know about pharmacy but i'm pretty sure for pharmacy you don't go to school for 4 years. As for the competitiveness i am not sure. There are more law students than lawyers in the US. I know a few law students, i've talked to a few lawyers, and i was thinking of law school myself so i did a little research. Nearly 50% of people who finish law school don't even become lawyers. They do something else. Over half of the lawyers in this country if you ask them if they started everything over and i mean before they went to lawschool, i'm 100% sure they'd say they'd never pursue law and would of liked to have done something else. It's tough finding placement as an attorney. You start off after lawschool working 60 hours a week and on $30,000 a year pay. If you graduate from an ivy-league like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, then you still start off 60 hours a week but $175,000 salary. So if you're in a non-ivy law school, you may end up working first 5 years making under $100,000 and those 5 years are tough. Then again after medical school you have residency. You also work around 22 hours a day everyday for 3-7 years depending on your area of study. As of this year residency students salary will rise to $75,000. Pharmacy, i don't know.
2016-05-24 00:02:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even "easy" med schools want to see a GPA in the mid 3s and MCATs in the upper 20s.
2007-01-31 11:01:48 · answer #3 · answered by Lea 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Really hard I guess. I mean would you want an idiot operating on you?
2007-01-31 10:55:09 · answer #4 · answered by lorrnae 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋