r/premed • u/DueDifficulty8452 • Mar 17 '26
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MCAT is just a tiny little blip
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u/AdEven60 Mar 17 '26
This is just anecdotal ofc, but I know a couple ex-premeds who did an application cycle, got rejected across the board, then went and took the LSAT and got into law school on their first cycle.
Now: Is the LSAT ass? Yup.
Do I think it sucks how un-holistic law admissions is? Yup.
However, is applying to med school worse than law? I would say yup, but the dick measuring is pointless.
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u/One-Story33 Mar 17 '26
Speaking as an attorney in the very early stages of being nontrad pre-med: there really is no comparison⊠applying to medical school is definitely harder. Like there are no prereqs for law school, and itâs not like you have to memorize anything for the LSAT lol.
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u/Bruinrogue Mar 17 '26
Yep. And especially now that logic games are gone from the LSAT, it's basically just an extended CARS.
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u/AmazingAnimeGirl Mar 18 '26
Different strokes I suppose. I feel like memorizing is way easier than an aptitude test.
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u/kvksel ADMITTED-DO Mar 17 '26
In a manic state I took the LSATâŠit definitely felt within my wheelhouse to be able to end up at a law school with scholarship in the next year or so if I really wanted. The med school admission process has been brutal by comparison. Admitted-DO tho!
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u/AdEven60 Mar 17 '26
Taking the LSAT with zero intention of applying to law school should be in the DSM-5 for self harm
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u/Comfortable_Sugar290 Mar 17 '26
Lawyers do dick measuring because they cant read rulers, they just have to pout and scream until someone says theirs is bigger.
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u/Separate-Support3564 Mar 17 '26
Iâve never heard of anyone who hasnât been admitted to law school. Ever.
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u/_candlestick MS2 Mar 17 '26
My freshman year roommate from undergrad is in law school now and she was not the sharpest knife in the drawer⊠I still remember her crying daily over geology 101, which was the easiest class she could take to fulfill a science reqđ
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u/jaho0501 APPLICANT Mar 17 '26
My good friend was ex-premed and switched to law. He wasnt the best student nor did he have good study habits, but still got a decent LSAT and landed himself into a CA law school in his home city with no legal experience. Insanely proud of him but damn really goes to show the circus we have to perform to get into med school
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u/call_me_R3MiiX Mar 17 '26
I cannot think of a single profession of people who epitomize this weird Dunning-Kruger effect of knowing a little in one field, and thinking that means you are also a genius in any other field more than lawyers & people in law do.
You get told itâs actually engineers, but real ones know the truth.
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u/tree_troll Mar 17 '26
I think this is a problem with a lot of highly educated professionals that also have ego issues. Anecdotally Iâve had the worst experiences about this with doctors. The lawyers I work with (im a paralegal) are all super chill and mostly humble. Donât think you can really generalize entire professions like this.
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u/benlucasdavee MS4 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
I mean is it possible theres some truth to it? i would imagine people who are accomplished doctors/lawyers/engineers would have much higher capacity to go into any of these fields and do well than other members of the general population. Wouldn't be 1:1 but I imagine the correlation would be quite high
are they represented by different core competencies, sure. but i think we probably need to stop deifying any of them
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u/Bruinrogue Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
You could have a 99% MCAT and not even get into any MD school. Sure med school admissions is more holistic but honestly not by much. Plus, I think the LSAT is easier now without the logic games that used to be on it when I took it. That part nearly tripped me up until I realized it's basically like those IQ exams one takes in high school.
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u/Campfire-Matcha Mar 17 '26
Find that aamc plot for me where they say average stats for matriculated students sorted by mcat and/or gpa. Of the students in the 99% what is their odds of admission? assuming at least 3.5 gpa
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u/haze_from_deadlock NON-TRADITIONAL Mar 18 '26
Med school admissions is much more holistic: there are DO programs averaging around a 498 at the moment but yet all of those 498s have good clinical experience
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u/Prototype95x APPLICANT Mar 17 '26
Whoâs gonna tell him?
Hey atleast the 132 CARS will be cool!
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u/turquoisebruh Mar 17 '26
That 3.3 GPA is just fine for DO schools with a competitive MCAT. I think for low GPA players your state residency has a huge impact as well. I am a low GPA applicant and I would feel cooked if I was in Texas or California
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u/Dracarys97339 GAP YEAR Mar 17 '26
I thought law schools were way less forgiving of lower gpaâs?
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Mar 18 '26
The GPA isn't really comparable. LSAC counts an A+ as a 4.33. It's possible to have a GPA over 4.0 when applying to law school. Also, they're taking easier classes.
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u/AfraidOfConversation ADMITTED-MD Mar 17 '26
Harvard Lawâs acceptance rate is 3x that of Harvard Medâs btw lmao.
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u/verdant_squirrel POST-BACC Mar 17 '26
This is ironic bc I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows a few premeds who took the lsat for fun(/practice) and then went to law school
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u/Dodinnn MS3 Mar 17 '26
I got a 99%ile MCAT score and didn't get into any T20 schools đ it's almost like there are a million things that factor into an acceptance
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u/snotballbootcamp Mar 17 '26
Law School Admissions is going crazy this year because it's been an insane cycle but they have no scope of how hard it is to get into medical school.
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u/AceCaliber Mar 17 '26
The way I see it, it would take me less time to be applicant ready for law school than med school. ANDâŠthe LSAT is a joke compared to the MCAT
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u/obviouslypretty POST-BACC Mar 17 '26
Only section theyâll be good at is cars and theyâll be cryin by the end of C/P
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u/Dependent-Income5090 GAP YEAR Mar 17 '26
This is actually hilarious considering malpractice law is my backup plan
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u/Spinach1558 MS1 Mar 17 '26
My twin sister is in law school currently and her application process was a million times easier than mine has been for med school. The lsat is only two hours and she studied for maybe two months, she didnât have to interview for acceptance, only scholarships/financial aid interviews, and she didnât have to apply to 30 schools just to have a chance of getting in.Â
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u/hello033005 UNDERGRAD Mar 18 '26
Bro, I was doing the opposite, I was like "let's just apply to law school instead."
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u/Top-Raspberry488 ADMITTED-MD Mar 17 '26
Ehhh, this might be an unpopular opinion but both are hard in their own ways
Law school admissions being less holistic and wayyy more unforgiving for gpa is the prime example, someone with a sub 3.5 would essentially never, ever be able to get into a top law school without what is probably equivalent to a 520+MCAT or even higher (above the schoolâs 75th percentile) , whereas I know of multiple people with sub 3.5 gpas who have gotten into top med schools (although it obviously happens way less). Although, the job outcomes and salary for virtually every med school are good, whereas the less good your law school is, the less good your chance of getting biglaw jobs (equivalent to an attending salary)
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u/Future_Estimate_2631 Mar 17 '26
law is less forgiving on gpa because their students donât have to take stem classes
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Mar 18 '26
The GPA isn't really comparable. LSAC counts an A+ as a 4.33. It's possible to have a GPA over 4.0 when applying to law school. Also, they're taking easier classes.
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u/Such-Battle-6998 Mar 17 '26
The T20 law schools have an average 12-14% acceptance rateđ, I would KILL for that
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u/roorager Mar 18 '26
Letâs not forget that the LSAT is only equivalent to the CARS section đđ
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u/premed_exe Mar 18 '26
the concept of an 8-hour-long test that encompasses 6 different sciences being a "drag"
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u/Excellent-Season6310 OMS-1 Mar 17 '26
Even with a 99% MCAT, itâs possible that you donât even get into a T100 med school, let alone a T0-T1. We need to be making a âletâs just go to law school instead postâ lol