<p>Is it even possible? I've heard of engineers, businessmen, lawyers becoming doctors, but never heard how they came about doing it...</p>
<p>So I'm guessing it's possible, but how feasible is it? What if graduating from engineering messed up your GPA....?</p>
<p>I'm not in college yet, applying this year</p>
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<p>I assume you mean people who have been out of college and working for several years before deciding to go to medical school. Well, that can be done in any number of ways. If they’ve already taken all the pre-reqs (due to their major or whatever), then all they need to do is take the MCAT, do some shadowing or other ECs to show they understand what they’re getting into, and apply.</p>
<p>If they haven’t done the pre-reqs, there are programs at many different colleges specifically for such people (“career-changers”) in which they only take the pre-req courses and receive preparation for the MCAT.</p>
<p>Technically, the answer to your question is “never.” Being a pre-med just means somebody who intends to apply to med school.</p>
<p>BDM, are you saying that people never ‘accidentally’ apply to med-school without intending to do so?</p>
<p>For example: “Whoops, I just accidentally got into Harvard Medical School. How’d that happen?”</p>
<p>… yes? Although I have been told of some parents who forged applications on behalf of their students.</p>
<p>Accidents happen. Two docs with whom I work had planned to become marine biologists – one applied to medical school “just in case” and the other worked as a hospital orderly and surfed before being hounded into “doing something” by his parents.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d qualify those as accidents. They were, for however short or unconventional a time, “premeds.”</p>