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.

Public Comments

1. Because the average medical school applicant GPA is higher than the average law school applicant GPA. Different pools.
2. Are you sure the acceptance rate is the same for both? (For instance, the acceptance rate at my med school is under 1%.) Well, for one, med schools can be picky....at least half of all people who apply to medical school don't get in *anywhere* at all, and so of course schools will accept the applicants with better grades and test scores. So perhaps if the acceptance rates are the same for individual schools, it's different if you look at the overall acceptance rate. Also--and no disrespect to lawyers intended--I'd personally rather have medical school admissions be the more stringent of the two. When a bad lawyer loses a case it can alter someone's life, but when a bad doctor "loses a case" the patient dies.
3. Depends on the school really! However generally doctors need to be more effiecient than lawyers! They have a much higher liability! If a lawyer loses usually no 1 dies!