<p>Haha I Love This Thread</p>
<p>I don't personally know,
I would try to check out med school acceptance rate.
Most schools will tell you that somewhere, and it pretty much tells you what percent of the graduates got accepted to at least one medical school.</p>
<p>I would just poke around and compare acceptance rates for a few schools so you can get some idea as to where they stand.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that schools known as premed powerhouses (HOPKINS) can actually have lower acceptance rates than others. I've heard that it's actually harder to go to med school from hopkins or berkeley than from some liberal arts colleges just because it's so much harder to get a good gpa there.</p>
<p>At rugbyfan: =]</p>
<p>At samurkai: Are you suggesting that I should take it easy at a smaller college and get a good GPA there rather than go for gold at a much harder school?</p>
<p>You seem like a pretty smart guy - investment banking seems like a job for you. No real education necessary beyond undergrad and you make a rather large sum of money. I suggest you look into it.</p>
<p>At samurkai: Are you suggesting that I should take it easy at a smaller college and get a good GPA there rather than go for gold at a much harder school?</p>
<p>not necessarily
med schools look at the kind of school as well
just that if you go to say, a LAC with grade inflation, or an ivy (which generally have a lot of grade inflation)
But going to a bigname technical school (MIT, JHU, Cal) actually tends to give you lower chances than at a liberal arts colleges, just because you tend to have a lower GPA.</p>
<p>And I'm really going to second the suggestion that you look into other careers as well.
If your main motivation for medicine is money, then medicine's not going to be the career for you. It's just not worth it.</p>
<p>Even say, orthodontists actually make a more than decent amount of money on average, and with far less schooling and with reasonable hours.</p>
<p>So what's all this talk about investment banking? Is there another thread for it?</p>
<p>There's a sub-forum dedicated to Investment Banking here:</p>
<p>Similar deal applies, though: it's still a lot of work to make that money. Investment bankers work very, very long hours.</p>
<p>I'm not exactly thrilled with the high dropout rate. I mean sure, the money may be great, but 140 hours a week? (That's what I read in one article)</p>
<p>you said that becoming a surgeon is for the money
a huge part is actually for the money
oh as a side note you're interested in human anatomy
when you go to med school and they interview you, what are you going to say? that you are going to med school b/c you have a fascination of the human anatomy? you really think that they are going to accept that as an answer huh?</p>
<p>=P Well, that was the most prominent property of biology that stuck out at me, but it's not like I didn't thoroughly enjoy the non-biochemisty end of it. I loved working with tools, learning about different cycles, etc. It wasn't just anatomy.</p>