re: Which is harder? Engineering, Med School, or Law School

the intensity of the schooling, from what friends of mine who have experience in all 3 say, law is the most intense, med is the most volume of knowledge, and engineering is a lot about making contacts for later jobs... not my opinion, just what I surmise from their explanations

It's a matter of student aptitude for the subject. Some people simply get physics and Dynamics and things that go into engineering. Their brains are wired to work that way. Same thing with med school.

Law school was easy to me. It was a lot of work, but ultimately not very difficult. But I had friends who found it even easier than I did and certainly friends who thought it was the single most difficult thing they ever attempted.

I found Creative Writing in undergrad to be easy and enjoyable. I had a 4.0. I knew plenty of other guys in my fraternity who laughed at my major but who came crawling to me for help writing English papers because they couldn't form sentences, despite understanding the most complex thermodynamics problem.

That said, I think law school is relatively easy. Med school would be difficult for subject matter and volume. Engineering would be difficult for subject matter.

But that's just me.

Having completed 2 of the 3, I can say law took considerably more effort than engineering to do well. I am a highly math minded person so that may explain some of it for me personally.

I would assume med school is more difficult than law school. Law school is miserable for 1 month out of each semester, I think med school is a constant grind.

2 of those teach you to be analytical, while one teaches you to memorize.

Med School is difficult simply by the shear amount of information you have to memorize.

Law school is likely the easiest.

I'd say engineering is toughest, but would depend on your program, but any research based Phd in Engineering or Science would likely be significantly tougher than medical school seeing as you don't have a set path/goal and are at the whims of your PI and committee on whether you graduate and research can take numerous paths unlike the structures of law/medical school.

Also, if you should not include residency as part of medical school just as you shouldn't include clerking as part of law school.

Those are specializations in the field, but depending on which you choose it is inherently more difficult.

That's the thing, I think most people in here are comparing med/law school to an engineering undergrad, not masters or PhD.

Engineering is likely the most difficult undergrad program compared to whatever history or philosophy major the law students take.

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That's the thing, I think most people in here are comparing med/law school to an engineering undergrad, not masters or PhD.

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Is that not the premise of the OP? This is literally the first sentence of this thread:

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Just getting a BS in engineering seems like the most difficult thing

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There was a guy in my law school class who went to Duke undergrad for chemical engineering I think it was. He also got his graduate degree there and also was so many hours or whatever away from defending his thesis for his PhD (however that goes) before he decided to go to law school.

So you're saying he was an idiot?

I guess he just realized it wasn't something he wanted to do. I personally thought he was fricking crazy but I'm sure he's happy. Maybe he went back to finish his PhD.