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Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the adcomms for the med school and law school are entirely different. And I doubt they communicate enough to make such an offer. If they were dumb enough to even come up with something like that in the first place.ScarryBakhtin wrote:A friend of mine, who went to HLS, told me that Michigan made him an offer to accept his spouse to their med school if he would go to their law school. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
If she was a borderline case, and it sounds like she was, this isn't crazy. I've heard rumors of LS transfers being given extra consideration because a spouse was in another program at the school; so I don't know why it wouldn't work the other way as well. Besides, Med school is not as strictly prestige and numbers-driven as law school; much more gets based on "soft" factors among people who had the numbers to get in.ScarryBakhtin wrote:FWIW, his wife is in a top 40 med school, not one as good as Michigan, though (maybe that helped?)
Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
I still disagree. It might be stupid, but not so stupid as not to consider for a second. Med school admissions are nothing like lawl school.nygrrrl wrote:Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
You maybe right because everyone can get in to Harvard Medical School and Stanford Med School with a 30 MCAT and a 3.5 GPA.Renzo wrote:I still disagree. It might be stupid, but not so stupid as not to consider for a second. Med school admissions are nothing like lawl school.nygrrrl wrote:Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
Ah, you got me there. Thanks for completely mischaracterizing my argument, then refuting that argument I didn't make.tea_drinker wrote:You maybe right because everyone can get in to Harvard Medical School and Stanford Med School with a 30 MCAT and a 3.5 GPA.Renzo wrote:I still disagree. It might be stupid, but not so stupid as not to consider for a second. Med school admissions are nothing like lawl school.nygrrrl wrote:Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
Sure, you're welcome.Renzo wrote: Ah, you got me there. Thanks for completely mischaracterizing my argument, then refuting that argument I didn't make.
This is what I love about being on a law school forum. The level of argumentation is so high.tea_drinker wrote:Sure, you're welcome.Renzo wrote: Ah, you got me there. Thanks for completely mischaracterizing my argument, then refuting that argument I didn't make.
Usually I get all kinds of pissed when people start arguing about arguing.Hey-O wrote:This is what I love about being on a law school forum. The level of argumentation is so high.tea_drinker wrote:Sure, you're welcome.Renzo wrote: Ah, you got me there. Thanks for completely mischaracterizing my argument, then refuting that argument I didn't make.
Med schools aren't as rankings-driven as law schools. If you're pre-med, it's about getting into _a_ med school not necessarily the very top ones.ScarryBakhtin wrote:FWIW, his wife is in a top 40 med school, not one as good as Michigan, though (maybe that helped?)
This is what I was trying to say. If she got in to other good programs, it's plausible that she had the numbers to get in to UMich, and it was only because some near-identical candidate had something in common with an interviewer that she got passed over. It's not like law school. So if that was the case, I could see the schools admitting them both so they would both enroll. I can't say it did happen, or even that it's likely, just that it's not crazy.schrizto wrote:Med schools aren't as rankings-driven as law schools. If you're pre-med, it's about getting into _a_ med school not necessarily the very top ones.ScarryBakhtin wrote:FWIW, his wife is in a top 40 med school, not one as good as Michigan, though (maybe that helped?)
Reading comp, bro.tea_drinker wrote:You maybe right because everyone can get in to Harvard Medical School and Stanford Med School with a 30 MCAT and a 3.5 GPA.Renzo wrote:I still disagree. It might be stupid, but not so stupid as not to consider for a second. Med school admissions are nothing like lawl school.nygrrrl wrote:Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
Incorrect, unless your only ambition is peds or family practice. Rankings matter a lot for the sought after residencies.Gatorbull84 wrote:The rule with med school is if you get into a US MD you go. Ranking does not matter
So just because your pre-law advisor said it, it definitely happened that way? It's still a second or third hand account at best.Arbiter213 wrote:My pre-law adviser has mentioned this to me on multiple occasions (specifically the story she tells is about Michigan as well). So it's possible.
nygrrrl wrote:Your friend is full of it. This is too stupid to even consider it as true for even a second.
Also, incorrect. While your med school matters quite a bit, your board scores allow you to have the "pick of the litter" when it comes to most residencies.edgarfigaro wrote:Incorrect, unless your only ambition is peds or family practice. Rankings matter a lot for the sought after residencies.Gatorbull84 wrote:The rule with med school is if you get into a US MD you go. Ranking does not matter
Unless his wife wants to be a medical researcher, and not a clinical physician, which medical school she goes to is basically irrelevant.ScarryBakhtin wrote:FWIW, his wife is in a top 40 med school, not one as good as Michigan, though (maybe that helped?)