"NOYB" wrote in message
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"DSK" wrote in message
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Paul Fritz wrote:
The best doctors (and dentists :-) ) I've meet have all been
engineers
or math majors in undergrad......something about their problem solving
skills :-)

Unless they have gotten intellectually lazy and take a lot of shortcuts,
like NOBBY.

BTW most younger doctors wouldn't have a chance to take an engineering
degree undergrad, they have to have either pre-med or one of the
biological sciences. Getting into medical school has become totally cut
throat and an engineer would not be remotely competitive even with
perfect M-Cats.

Very true...for dental school as well. I didn't get into dental school on
my
first attempt. Dental school had maybe 8 or 9 "required" science classes
to
qualify for admission. They called it the Biology-Chemistry-Physics (BCP)
GPA. They also looked at the overall science GPA. Those with a science
GPA
below 3.0, didn't even get looked at. I had a 2.9 "science" GPA (every
engineering class counted towards the science GPA), and a 3.1 overall GPA.
However, my BCP GPA was 3.86. After being placed on a "waiting list" the
first go-around, I wrote a letter to one of the Professors on the
selection
committee who also had an engineering degree. I pointed out to him that
the
school was passing up a lot of good candidates who were engineers solely
on
a policy that didn't compare apples to apples. There were classmates of
mine who studied French in undergrad and took only the bare minimum of
science classes. They had science GPA's of 3.2 and BCP GPA's of
3.2...compared to my BCP of 3.86. My letter managed to get my
application
a second look...and I was accepted the following year. I finally
graduated
dental school with a GPA that put me 18th in a class of 93 students (GPA
around a 3.6).

I know two doctors ( both under 40 ) personally that don't even have a
undergraduate degree.