[Myrddin]

Getting past admissions to "get in" is just the first step. It's a very different ballgame in the classroom. The cohort that seeks med school are very competitive. They will garner top 1% scores in a classroom. Graded on a curve, those admitted with lesser qualifications will fail out in a quarter or two. There isn't a multi-tier grading in the classroom. The term "overmatched" applies. Some of those less qualified would have succeeded in a less cut throat environment at a different institution.

[Regulator]

” those admitted with lesser qualifications will fail out in a quarter “

Oh I dunno. Every med school has a cohort of liberal arts majors who are ‘culturally broadening’ admits. They all didn’t have to be Revelle College biobots. And even those guys told me they didn’t think med school was as hard as biochem at UCSD. You tell me, you went there. But not med school, huh? I’m sure you knew people. People I knew at UCSD med school...knew one who had a Nutrition degree, took “Physics for Nurses” to cover the physics requirement. Thought that was clever, but ridiculous.

Me, I think they’re all frauds. I did biology AND engineering. I can safely tell you that biology was FAR easier then virtually anything in engineering past basic drafting; bout the only hard class I saw there was OChem. And even that was just a lotta memorization. Not quite like basic dynamics or Computational Fluid Dynamics (which is admittedly not all that difficult either once you understand the underlying assumptions of continuum mechanics).