Is Podiatry School Easy to Get Into
- #2
This has been covered a million times, a quick search will do wonders. 
Summary:
1 "easy" is a relative term
2 getting in and making it through are 2 vastly different things
3 if you are thinking of applying banking on point 1 being true for you, you will likely find out the hard way that point 2 is true.
- #5
Podiatry school is an 80 hour a week grind. The only thing easy about Pod school is failing out. These entrance stats only tell about 10% of the story (and that's simply dictated by supply and demand). Most of the students in my class could have easily been accepted into schools with higher entrance standards, but choose Podiatry because it is what they want to do. If you are interested in Podiatry, visit a couple of schools, but I suspect that you are here start trouble. Why not, no one knows who you are on an anonymous forum. I wish i had your courage!!!
Mike Stas
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J ROD
Watch my TAN walk!!
- #7
Simple supply and demand. Less apps, less stats.
- #8
Sweet and simple. I would also add that the difficulty can also depend on the school.
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air bud
I am a dog and play basketball
- #9
i think "very hard to get in some" might be stretching it a bit. Okay, a LOT.
At DMU, which some would put in the hard-to-get-into category, i see a number of students who intelectually have no business being there, both in the DPM and DO programs. This is after just a month of school and two biochem tests. The lows on the two tests so far were 40 and 42. Seriously?
- #12
As other's have said it has a lot to do with previous lack of significant interest in the field among premeds, but that is changing. If you go to podiatry school, in the end you will be a physician and surgeon of the foot and ankle so I would be less concerned about entrance stats but rather exit stats. Podiatry school as with any other medical school is hard so don't be misguided. You have to be organized, efficient, attentive to details and minutiae and very, very competent.
air bud
I am a dog and play basketball
- #13
the high was 98 and 100. This was by a DO. I know of a few pods who scored in the mid-90's on both tests. The average was 87 on the first and 79 on the second.
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Podiatry has slowly but surely been getting more and more competitive. I'm just glad I'm in now and not in 10 years when it will be like trying to get into dental or med school.
Temple pumped us full of "This is the highest GPA and MCAT score average we've ever had for an incoming class" crap during orientation last month. I had to wonder how many years they have used that line. They also said they turned away over 60-70 percent of the class, although I'm sure some of those did not choose Temple. While I still think it may be a little to UNcompetitive, It's moving in the right direction. You'll see. It won't be long before it's much more difficult to get in.
Another reason I think that it is "easy" is that no one knows about it. I for one never knew that podiatrists have separate schooling until about a year ago. If schools only have enough applicants to fill their seats, they'll take em all. In other words supply and demand as has been mentioned.
What a great time to be applying and going to pod school. We are at a very important point in the professions history. Let's keep it going in the right direction!!!
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