re: What is osteopathic medicine?

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Not entirely true. Acceptance to schools like PCOM in Philly is highly competitive. Many people that go there chose it over MD schools. To assume that everyone in a DO school is a med school reject is pretty ignorant.

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According to their website, their average MCAT is around a 27. That average is 4 points below both of Alabama's MD schools and this state isn't known for its academic prowess. Those scores are even worse if you're in the northeast. Then factor in that DO schools usually combine your best category scores from multiple takes into a single MCAT score to inflate their numbers and their applicants are taking it multiple times to make up for poor GPA's, its even worse.