Several Obviously Unfair Things About Applying to Med School

[Punchap]

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The most unfair and annoying thing about applying to med school is being a engineering (materials) major and competing against english and history majors on GPA. I could get a 4.0 in a history or english major with about half the effort of getting a 3.5 in engineering but the med schools dont consider the difficulty of degree. That is because they are all trying to get the correct numbers to make their school look the best.

Second, a 4.0 at some easy rinky dink school is more likely to get you into med school than a 3.6 at a top notch science school.

Why dont the med school admissions people engage their brains and admit that a 3.5 materials or chem engineer is a better student than a 4.0 english major.

To be honest I dont see why Med schools even take non science majors.

Wow, why didn't you become a non-science major? It might have loosened you up a bit...would do you good I think.
Goodluck in dealing with people.

 

[Kiroro]

Goodluck in dealing with people.

What’s with this stupid stereo type of Engineers don’t have good people skill? Engineers always work in teams to design, build, and test. None of the buildings, mechanics, or electrics is made by individual engineer. In engineering major, students are taught to work out projects in team in order to be trained for future.

Just because we cannot afford to party three nights per week, like you can, doesn’t mean we don’t know how to deal with people.

 

[Cerberus]

I knew what I was getting into when I chose to take difficult classes - you should have too.

 

[incubate6times]

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