T6 Law School vs. Average Medical School

[Obnoxious Dad]

Do the math most DO schools have an acceptance rate between five and 9%. even the top law schools don’t go lower than that yes the candidates for the top law schools could probably get into medical school but you can’t compare law school to medical school medical school is simply more difficult to get accepted to

You need to look at the math. It takes a 61st percentile score on the MCAT to get into LECOM. (The last published average MCAT at LECOM was a 503.) The average LSAT score at Yale is a 173 which is at the 99th percentile. I realize that some physicians think that everyone would be a physician if they could, but that just isn't so. Lots of brilliant people simply have no interest in medicine. Some of those very smart people end up at Top 14 law schools.

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[965978]

No, not even in policy.

Are MD/JDs common amongst medical malpractice lawyers?

 

[965978]

This is one of those SDN threads where the argument doesn’t even make sense.....

 

[Deecee2DO]

You need to look at the math. It takes a 61st percentile score on the MCAT to get into LECOM. (The last published average MCAT at LECOM was a 503.) The average LSAT score at Yale is a 173 which is at the 99th percentile. I realize that some physicians think that everyone would be a physician if they could, but that just isn't so. Lots of brilliant people simply have no interest in medicine. Some of those very smart people end up at Top 14 law schools.

I understand that but also the MCAT is more difficult than the LSAT-most people would agree with this. Also, look at the acceptance rates from number of applicants to number accepted. DO schools have less than a 9% acceptance rate which gives you less of a chance of being accepted at DO school than getting into a T14 law school

 

[puahate]

Getting a 99 percentile in any standardized test is hard. Also LSAT is basically CARS on roids but i agree in general MCAT is probably harder.

I understand that but also the MCAT is more difficult than the LSAT-most people would agree with this. Also, look at the acceptance rates from number of applicants to number accepted. DO schools have less than a 9% acceptance rate which gives you less of a chance of being accepted at DO school than getting into a T14 law school

 

[965978]

DO schools have less than a 9% acceptance rate which gives you less of a chance of being accepted at DO school than getting into a T14 law school

Wake Forest SOM has a lower acceptance rate than UCLA SOM. Does that mean WF SOM is harder to get into?

Law schools weight the LSAT much more heavily than Med schools weight the MCAT. And this is common knowledge within the pre-law world. So there is much more self selection.

Acceptance rates at T20 med schools would easily reach 20% if all of the sub-515 MCAT privileged ORMs with cookie cutter EC’s didn’t bother applying.

 

[Deecee2DO]

Getting a 99 percentile in any standardized test is hard. Also LSAT is basically CARS on roids but i agree in general MCAT is probably harder.

I agree 99%ile on the LSAT is really damn hard I am sure, but also the MCAT is the MCAT lol

 

[gyngyn]

Are MD/JDs common amongst medical malpractice lawyers?

No.

 

[Dwan]

I understand that but also the MCAT is more difficult than the LSAT-most people would agree with this. Also, look at the acceptance rates from number of applicants to number accepted. DO schools have less than a 9% acceptance rate which gives you less of a chance of being accepted at DO school than getting into a T14 law school

The reason acceptance rates are low for medical schools is because many applicants apply to tons of schools and are accepted to another, equally good medical school (this is particularly the case among DO schools). Law schools are not so interchangeable that you can spam apply to all of them and attend whichever you get in. There is already selection bias of weaker applicants among those applying to DO schools (3.43 average GPA, 502 average MCAT - a 56%tile), yet a good proportion of these will get into at least 1 DO school. Also, the average GPA at any DO school doesn't even approach the bottom 25%tile mark at YLS, a 3.84 - highly doubtful most of these could score a 99%tile LSAT given their correspondingly mediocre MCAT performances.