<p>when i thought about going pre-med, i thought "it will be tough but the end result will be amazing. I'll be part of an elite few that can call themselves 'doctors'" </p>
<p>since then, even at my own school, i've realized just how many people feel the same way.
everyone wants to become a doctor and it's making me feel like I"m just jumping on the bandwagon. I can understand why a lot of people would want to go pre-med, but am curious about how many people actually stick with it until the end of undergrad.</p>
<p>I don't know, but I believe that if you like pre-med, and every single person in your school is going for it, including the janitor taking unofficial classes for pre-med, you shouldn't worry.</p>
<p>Pre-med and pre-law are huge goals for many HS students because culturally, they are very attractive. However once in college, many factors come into play: difficulty of study, new interests, etc. TONS of people have dreams of pursuing a pre-med course but TONS of people switch out rather quickly.</p>
<p>At my HYP college, we had a very cynical phrase: we said that Chem 115 (the 1st year intro Chem course) was the beginning of many Psychology majors (meaning it drove people out of pre-med -- and a knock on Psych majors).</p>
<p>It's just you. not as many people wishes to go to med school anymore, especially guys, too expensive, too long and no much life after that either.
Insurance companies have taken the fun out of it too. Some people turn to the PA programs, which allows them to practice medicine without all the administrative hustle.
For those similar programs, a pre med coursework is common.</p>
<p>It seems to me that more people are going into Neuroscience than Pre-Med, but yeah, there are generally a lot of prospectives for the medical field.</p>
<p>I think 75% of the people I know here are pre-meds.</p>
<p>When I look around my orgo class, I see football players, lacrosse girls, BUNCH of sorority girls talking about Grey's anatomy and even kids in skinny jeans with bright yellow hair and lip piercing. Makes me wonder if orgo's a Northwestern graduation requirement.</p>
<p>But who knows? Maybe once they all get into med school, they'll clean up their act and look like doctors in their white coats.</p>
<p>"When I look around my orgo class, I see football players, lacrosse girls, BUNCH of sorority girls talking about Grey's anatomy and even kids in skinny jeans with bright yellow hair and lip piercing. Makes me wonder if orgo's a Northwestern graduation requirement."</p>
<p>Generally the chatty sorostitutes and the stereotypical dumb*** jocks are the ones that bring down the class average, which provides the hard workers with the massive curves many kids rely on to get that "A".</p>
<p>There are many sorority girls and jocks that do make it... but they generally they are the exceptions...</p>
<p>hahahaha
"interesting point, multitasker. too many women in medicine these days. "
no comment.</p>
<p>GoodSamaritan:
I hope you didn't find offensive I mentioned that more women go into medicine, because it wasn't even crossing my mind when I wrote that. I was just relying in recent newspapers articles, including the NY Times, and Med Schools admission stats.
I just wanted to clarify that.
As for the length of the career per se, it was a combination of objectivity and subjectivity in the matter, it's something I noticed .
thanks</p>
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It's just you. not as many people wishes to go to med school anymore, especially guys, too expensive, too long and no much life after that either.
Insurance companies have taken the fun out of it too. Some people turn to the PA programs, which allows them to practice medicine without all the administrative hustle.
For those similar programs, a pre med coursework is common.
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<p>Actually, more and more people are applying for med school due to the state of the economy. The average stats for entering M1's at my med school this year is 3.8/35 (3.8/37 for accepted students), up noticeably from 3.7/34 last year. In fact, most med schools are setting record highs for GPA/MCAT so the quality of accepted students is continuing to rise.</p>
<p>Also, when you are a HS senior you don't really know the various careers out there. So many people just choose premed because they like it and have seen TV shows about doctors etc. Only some actually stay in it. I've seen even smart people drop it because they've found better careers for them.</p>
Of course, by looks I don't mean height, weight, race, facial features. I happen to think oftentimes what you do on the outside to yourself and how you choose to appear in manner and in attitude are things that say a lot about who you are. And if you choose to appear a Delta, Zeta, Beta or whatever sitting in class with your Louis Vuitton bag and your Gucci shades carefully placed on your head, I think that says something about you. Maybe I'm wrong :shrug:
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Generally the chatty sorostitutes and the stereotypical dumb*** jocks are the ones that bring down the class average, which provides the hard workers with the massive curves many kids rely on to get that "A".
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If this is true, I suppose we all ought to be thanking them.</p>
<p>but curmudgeon, why would you say "afraid of the competition, fellas?", as if you are a woman... unless you are a woman, in which case I'm sorry. But to asnwer your question, as a male, I am glad that there are less guys going into medicine. Med schools won't publish this, but they aren't going to want to strive away from the 50/50 split of guys/girls that they've had for the past few years. They'll admit a greater percentage of men. :)</p>
<p>Trust me. I'd make an incredibly ugly woman. You don't have to be of a class to recognize prejudice against that class. The attitudes of some here about male nurses and female doctors/pre-meds are appallling.</p>