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

Med school




Law school


Engineering

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The actual content of medical school isn't that difficult - it's simply the volume of the material that presents a challenge.

Graduate level engineering courses would likely present the greatest difficulty in terms of the actual content.

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I agree with this.

Med school, for time and volume, is the hardest. But I have several friends in residency at the moment and they all say it wasn't hard in terms of thinking, it was just vast memorization (and connecting the dots) and 18 hour studying days in med school and now literally 24 hour working days in residency.

My good friend gets 1 day off a month in residency. She looks like a ghoul she's so tired.


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She's gonna be so rich though

The time consumption of Med school is off the charts.

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law school is by far the easiest. i know several dumb lawyers.

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I agree. There are some really bad law schools that accept anyone.

I think this should be filtered to say "good law schools".

Consensus will just be impossible. I imagine the experience in competing against very good to elite law students at a Tier 1 law school is just a lot different than going to a Tier 3 school. If you're a borderline admit at a good school, life might be tough. If you go on scholarship to a shitty law school, you might breeze through.

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I'm a PE and had a 3.5 undergrad in civil. I am not that smart.

I gotta assume the other 2 are harder.

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Well there's your smoking gun. Of course it was easy....it was civil . Just messing around.

In general, I think the subject matter of engineering can make a case for the most difficult to understand. But I'd never say I worked as hard as someone with a medical degree. The amount of stuff they have to be proficient at in that amount of time is pretty difficult. Not to mention you need to keep that high GPA to make it to the next bit of schooling (undergrad, med school, residency, etc.).

I graduated with like 2.9 in ME and was offered a job 3 months before graduation. That's not going to work out quite the same for someone trying to be a doctor. I could coast, so I don't think it was more difficult.

I don't think Law is easy, and I definitely respect those who are fighting to be in the top of their class at a respected school. I do not immediately assume a lawyer is all that smart though.

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ETA: A downvote? This place is funny sometimes.

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Engineering is the hardest and best major you can possibly choose. Just ask most engineers/engineering students.

Med school is lots of volume of memorization but there's a lot more problem-solving involved than people are giving credit for. The MCAT alone is a test of critical thinking skills as much as it was memorization.

Overall agree that getting through Law School is probably the easiest.

I will chip in though that what can make Law School so infuriating is the "optional" stuff. Trying to get on Law Review, doing Law Review without splitting your wrists, maintaining summa status (since the job market blows is you barely skate through). Blah. Blah. Blah.

For my history on this, went to Law School and roomed with a Med School student during that time. Then married into a family of engineers.

My Med School roommate had the most volume. The engineering stuff is the most "difficult." Law has the most ways you can absolutely frick your future career up before it begins (just getting through generally isn't enough)