<p>And it’s too bad, because there really is nothing wrong with business/accounting/finance. This is not Soviet Russia…</p>
<p>Shhh…you may wake MiamiDap</p>
<p>Ladies, ladies. </p>
<p>I’m no lady! I am simply riff-raff. 8-} </p>
<p>I am trying to get my tolerance up a bit for my future bro-in-law’s bachelor party this weekend. </p>
<p>I’ll be marrying his sister a year from tomorrow (by date…). :-)</p>
<p>At any rate, I’m happy to learn from others here (for future reference…) and to share knowledge based on my own experience. </p>
<p>Regarding the greater numbers of state college students…including honors who go into med school versus their private elite counterparts, I’m betting another factor is the elite private college students may feel pre-med is not as appealing an option as others they may have. </p>
<p>Especially among upper/upper-middle class students who make up a critical mass of the latter colleges and feel spending one’s entire undergrad fulfilling pre-med curricula, arduously maintaining a sky-high STEM-oriented pre-med GPA, and foregoing the leisurely parts of undergrad just isn’t worth it when there are just as many/more lucrative and less arduous options. Options like entering the family business one will eventually inherit or going off into ibanking. </p>
<p>Yes, I know some folks who went off into ibanking/finance after dropping pre-med and/or opting to not go off to med school. </p>
<p>Agreed…this is not a new poster. </p>
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<p>Its a funny world. I know three doctors who all started out on wall street and decided it wasn’t for them, One ER guy, and two orthopedic specialists. But all of them actually worked briefly in finance before going to med school. They were all elite private school undergrads.</p>
<p>As far as people making decisions to go to less elite undergrads with the intention of heading to med school, there are more than a few of those people.</p>
<p>It seems like this thread is started by a high school kid who has not attended college yet. This whole thing about prestige undergraduate for medical school is the clue.</p>
<p>Ok, I’ll talk. From the beginning of this poster’s involvement on the site, I’ve thought they sounded like a kid. The responses, the sentence structure, the values, along with concerns have not sounded like a parent. :shrug:</p>
<p>Surely, I’m not the only one who saw this. Well, I know @sally305 did. She has an all seeing eye. ;)</p>
<p>I have a hard time believing that a parent would be <em>embarrassed</em> by their child’s choice of major. Embarrassed that your child is an art major? Really?</p>
<p>FWIW, Michael Lewis was an art history major.</p>
<p>cobrat,
About “another factor” you mentioned in your post, DS might have mentioned something similar by another ways while he was an UG. He basically told us that mostly only the students who were graduated from public high school would stay on the premed track. Assuming that the higher percentage of upper-middle class students would more likely had attended a $$$ private high school, what he said is pretty much inlined with what you said. Thought of another: the two suitemates in his freshman suite who ended up going this track came from the (relatively speaking) poorest families.</p>
<p>Maybe we are not “upper-middle-class” enough so that he did not “rebel” to pursue another track in the end. LOL. He did complain about how being a premed “ruins” a big part of his college experience, and it took him a long time before he took the plunge to get ready for this career path (e.g., took MCAT as late as it could be, almost refused to deal with AMCAS altogether if he did not take my bait.)</p>
<p>Yup, makes sense that OP is (was) a kid all along. I am beginning to feel a bit embarrassed myself that I fell for the bait. </p>
<p>frazzled, don’t be embarrassed. Sometimes I justify responding by thinking of the many people who read these threads and don’t comment, and who might be misled by an insincere poster without knowing it.</p>
<p>I agree that I can hear the trip-trap of little goat feet on that bridge. I think, looking at the various threads, that we are dealing with a private school kid with wealthy parents who has a sneaking fear that he may not be god’s gift to mankind after all and that someone might beat him out in the elite admissions arms race by doing something crafty such as attending an urban public instead of his high-priced private. And yes, it is a familiar voice. Either it’s the same person, or all such people sound alike. :)</p>
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<p>Yay, the ■■■■■ took the bait.</p>
<p>I suspected all along this was some obnoxious high-schooler posing as a “concerned parent” but wanted to be careful not to make unfounded accusations. This poster is completely clueless if he believes that ^^^ nonsense, but he likely doesn’t. He probably fancies himself as some kind of future spy planting disinformation from his childhood bedroom.</p>
<p>Newsflash, my little ■■■■■ friend: the CIA and MI6 are looking for much smarter undercover “agents” than you!</p>
<p>I think it’s interesting that we all seem to believe that “she” is a “he.” I’m pretty sure we are correct. :)</p>
<p>I’ve appeared to offend some of you and envy causes insecure people to behave in interesting ways, including making hilariously outrageous accusations on message forums, apparently. Stay well.</p>
<p>“ellen”–don’t worry, none of us are offended by you. Or envious. You can keep trying, though! Can’t wait to see where you’ll turn up next. :)</p>
<p>Envy, “Ellen”? My riff-raff kid already has degrees from two Ivies (and turned down the U of C). Good luck getting in.</p>