Medical Malpractice

law school and medical school?

why is the average gpa of accepted students to medical school so much higher than the average gpa of accepted students to law school? but the acceptance rate is about the same for both. i understand physicians have more responsibilities. but in general the competitiveness is about the same. so in order for those average gpa's to be the way they are. if you look at schools alot more students are pre law. Honestly looks like students going into law school (in general) are just not as smart, or maybe they don't try hard enough. but that too doesn't make sense, because the pre law classes are easier than pre med classes. =/

Public Comments

1. Might be due to that fact that Med students are graded more objectively whereas Law students are graded more subjectively by their professors? You need to know all the symptoms of a disease but there's more than one way to argue a court case.
2. Many students who are pre-med at the start of college do not make it to the end to apply. That is, they are "weeded out" because they do not do well in their pre-med required classes such as organic chemistry. So, although the acceptance rate may be the same for law and medicine, medicine is a much more competitive field and the acceptance rate does not reflect the number of students who have already been "eliminated" from the field. The students who are left to apply are therefore highly qualified, hence the high average GPA among applicants and an even higher average GPA among those accepted. The acceptance rate for medical school can be as low as 3% (e.g., Stanford) or as high as 10% (e.g., Washington University in St. Louis).
3. There is no such thing as a pre-law class. Your entire conclusion is based on false information. The average undergraduate GPA of students at Harvard Law and Harvard Medical are similar. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
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