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> there are only about 20k people who score > 510 on the MCAT per year

The article clearly shows the skills necessary to work as a doctor are a lot wider than academic ability.

One pleasure/pain of being a software developer is that there is less gatekeeping.

Certainly. My point is that there isn't an unlimited pool of qualified candidates.

There are things other than academics, but that makes the pool even smaller.

> The article clearly shows the skills necessary to work as a doctor are a lot wider than academic ability.

Where does the article show this?