<p>Well just going to give up since this would probably not go anywhere. I just decided to respond because I feel that people get lots of wrong information from discussion boards a lot. I would still reiterate that your age is not going to be the main concern when you apply to law or med school, it would be your GPA, MCAT and other soft factors. People are still following the same assumption no matter how much I point it out- the older you are does not mean you have more life experiences and I am sure that people who sit on admission committees understand this. For the most part- yes some older people might have some “valuable” experiences but its very possible that this not the case.</p>
<p>For example, Most people in my class at college are 2 years older than I am, although I run a student group, take a heavier courseload than 90% of the people in the school, have done lots of jobs and met most of the professors in my school. Now when we apply to med school and they see someone barely 20 year old with a lot of job experience and a 22-23 year old with nothing spectacular in college but would assume he has a lot of life experiences though he is older. Seems illogical to me. </p>
<p>Obviously some of the best physicians in the world were previously waiters, from bludevilmike’s argument. Therefore countries in which people go into 6 yr medical school programmes and therefore had no chances of being waiters produce terrible doctors since they were obviously immature. They have to be immature because they are going to be physicians at the age of 23, a time when most people in the US start medical school. Must be terrible at interpersonal relationships too because they did not have the opportunity to hone their interpersonal relationships while being waiters.</p>
<p>“The math genious that started college at age 12, ended up being a regular accountant…”</p>
<p>Regarding this statement, a large percentage of the world is ‘mediocre’ and very few people get “their own wikipedia pages” Success does not always depend on how book smart you are. The 12 year old who ended up being a regular accountant became one because that was what he wanted to do. it does not in anyway make him mediocre. If he decided to go into engineering he might have been more successful. Law may be. But accountancy was his choice. He might never work for the large accountancy firm but the fact remains that he would be a damn good accountant. The same way people who get MCAT scores over 40 are not going to be superdoctors. They would end up as doctors just like everyone else. Some might go into family medicine because they like it. While some could become surgeons. But would be no different from their classmates who scored a 31.</p>
<p>Ok I have to read for my history class so bye</p>