<p>Does anyone regret having to deal with all the pressure of studying for the MCAT/Med school apps while having to maintain a high GPA and do tons of ECs? I read that 80% of pre-meds drop out and switch to another major.</p>
<p>Dude your question is so biased that I'm sure it'll bugs other people too. It's not just 2, 3, or 4 sided, the experience is likely different for many people and their afterthoughts too.</p>
<p>Are you sure they drop out or do they get dropped? Big difference. Seems to me those that can excel at the tasks required usually stay in. It's kind of like it was with me and motorcycle racing, once I realized grandma was lapping me on a Vespa I lost interest. Or when that gorgeous girl who wouldn't give me a look suddenly became a $%#$%. Huh. Imagine that.</p>
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I read that 80% of pre-meds drop out and switch to another major.
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Just another high schooler who thinks premed is a major. lol</p>
<p>bkiersted:</p>
<p>Agreed. :) I don't recall anyone dropping out of their major because they didn't want to be pre-med anymore - they just dropped whatever pre-med courses that weren't relevant to their major or interests.</p>
<p>guideme: </p>
<p>This is a bad place to look for people who regret pre-med. Seems to me that most of the people are either in medical school and liking it or gung-ho about applying and getting in.</p>
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Or when that gorgeous girl who wouldn't give me a look suddenly became a $%#$%.
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too much information, Curm....</p>
<p>Here to serve, drb. ;)</p>
<p>I actually dropped pre-med by choice- It didn't drop me.</p>
<p>Still, I have no regrets about spending the first two years of college as a pre-med. It prompted me to get a research position in a lab (admittedly as a resume builder). I ended up loving it, and quit the pre-med thing. Granted, my course work hasn't changed in the slightest.</p>
<p>Just do what you think you'll enjoy. As long as you keep an open mind to other interests, things tend to work out.</p>
<p>EDIT: Just pointing out what shades_children said..I didn't technically "drop" anything, but you get the point.</p>
<p>Obviously, I don't regret being a pre-med (or a med student as awful as it was at times), but then again, I did pre-med MY way. If I had been in a situation/school/whatever where people were literally cutthroat, there was sabotaging of other people's work, I never partied, I worried about getting a 98% rather than a 95% (or an 89.5%), I constantly questioned whether being in the useless pre-med club was more important than being in the useless future doctor's club, and all the other things that people seem to get their underroos in a bunch about...then yes, I would have regretted doing pre-med.</p>
<p>BRM: I don't think I know many premeds who did things that way. I certainly never did.</p>
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lol... underoos in a bunch. I'll have to remember that.</p>
<p>BDM: It seems a lot of my "fellow" premeds are just like what BRM described. It's extremely annoying.</p>
<p>The 'Future Doctors of America' eager beavers are the most abysmal type of people, period. No argument possible.</p>
<p>No. Pre-med/pre-MBA (if there ever was such a thing) is the way to ball.</p>
<p>Business doesn't really count. Let's just say that if this were a reaction mechanism, pre-med would be the slow (rate determining) step and business would be the fast step.</p>
<p>BDM: I didn't know many either, or rather any at all, but it's not like I went to a super selective school (as you know from my facebook profile). I've heard the stories and I know that even at Creighton, the atmosphere was a little bit more malignant. And the types of questions we get here on a routine basis also helps reinforce the perception.</p>
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<p>Pre-med = thermodynamic control, business = kinetic control.</p>