just from what i've seen and heard i would have to agree that vet school is very difficult to get into. then med school, the dental school, and to me, pharmacy school is extremely easy to get into. i have a friend who took two years of undergraduate coursework and did avg and she is now at pharm school. most of the people that have been applying to pharm school that i know of are all applying after their second year. hardly any of them are getting a degree, and most of them have already been accepted. yes a lot of people apply, but you have to take into account that half these people are the ones who couldnt get into to the first three schools, so they resort to pharmacy. im not saying anything bad about pharmacy, but this is a general trend i've noticed.
I go to Texas A&M University and we have a vet school. I'm actually an undergraduate who is getting a Bachelor's in Biomedical science, and most of our classes are actually taught by the same teachers in the vet school[only place in America I believe where the undergrad is taught in a professional school with the same teachers, Whoop!]. Granted, they don't hold us to quite as high of a standard; that is, we don't apply the info we learn to surgical skills, etc... but it is a very very rigorous courseload. That being said, I know hands down, in Texas at least, Vet school is definitely the hardest to get into. There is just one Vet school in Texas, that is a lot for all of Texas and the surrounding states. They have so few seats and tons of applicants; the acceptance ratio is ridiculous. It's not that people in Vet school are the smartest, simply that a lot of people really enjoy working with animals (not me) and fight for those seats.
I am personally going into dental school because I think it is something that I will enjoy, but since we're on the "difficulty to get accepted discussion" I thought I would put my two cents in.
Okay, here is my opinion:
Vet>>Dent>med>pharm>nursing (notice the >>)
Okay, my reasoning behind the dent being harder than med is this (this applies in Texas at least)
There are 3 dental schools in Texas, 8 med schools. A student applies to at most 3 dental schools through the TMDSAS, and then a med student applies to 8 med schools through it also. Basically we are saying that "accepted" means just getting in right? So regardless of ratios, there is a better chance of getting into at least 1 med school, than there is of getting into any dental school. All you need to do is get accepted to one school, not all of them. So for an individual, it may be a little easier to get into med in Texas. And NO, I am not implying that Dent students are smarter than everyone else, we surely are not, but we may have to fight a litter harder for our seats.
It's kinda like heretibility, you can only apply it to one population. Making gross statements about dent/med over the entire US is somewhat misleading because it is too generalized.
However, I do think the MCAT may be harder than the DAT simply because it has physics, and maybe because it is passage based. I might have done better on the MCAT though, considering I read very effectively and got a 99%tile on my DAT RC. Passages do make some answers easier. I wouldn't be able to say since I haven't taken the MCAT, but I did get a 21 on my DAT. The PCAT is definitely easier than both though.
I guess that's better than saying they take the pills from the big bottle and put it into the little bottles.
