<p>^ Also true, but some people are natural actors, and others can just BS really well at the interview. I'm sure I came across as bright and perky at my grad school interviews, but after a few of them I was just a tad disgusted with myself for being so cheery and gung-ho about science when on some days, I'd rather do anything than walk into lab.</p>
<p>If you don't have a passion for medicine I wouldn't pursue it. Being a doctor is not an easy life. It is a life of pure commitment. I know several doctors (three family members) who are feeling burned out in their mid 40's.</p>
<p>Hopefully (I really really hope) most premeds want to do medicine because they truly enjoy helping others and want to commit their entire life to this. </p>
<p>I'm disgusted by premeds who are doing it because their parents are forcing them to do it OR they're doing it for the money.</p>
<p>They'll learn the hard way that doctors don't actually make a boat load of money. After malpractice insurance, etc, your salary gets blasted, and you still have to pay off med school/post debt. Hopefully these money hungry premeds will realize this before taking up a seat in some school.</p>
<p>^^^ SO true. And it's exactly what collegemom16 said, my dad is a doctor in his mid-40's and he's completely burned out.</p>
<p>w0rd @ dbanooza. the purpose of a medical school admissions committee is to pick those who are bright, honest, hard-working and dedicated (among other traits) to serve the greater good. (colleges, on the other hand, admit the same people for the purpose of getting students to higher-paying jobs, which is not quite as noble of a cause) and med schools see thousands and thousands of applications a year (Drexel gets ~14,000 a year) so they've become pros at filtering through all the applications that have a lot of tricks in them because that's being dishonest. why let a student become a doctor if he or she is going to artificially inflate their GPA and try and "trick" other people? I would say taking 1-2 irrelevant science classes wouldn't hurt, since it may be your passion, but overdoing it is a red flag. Or if this really was your passion, and it was your major, they probably wouldn't be concerned either. But if you're a straight biology major taking 10 oceanography courses, with A+s in all of them....</p>
<p>C's do happen from time to time. Maybe it won't happen to you, but many people will get at least one C. Sometimes the curve just sucked, the teacher was horrible, you accidentally missed a midterm, you had 3 midterms in a day, etc.</p>
<p>A recent survey said that most doctors wouldn't encourage their kids to become doctors too. That shows a lot. Clearly, there's job dissatisfaction of some sort to produce that majority, so hopefully everyone really understands what they're getting into. Including me, haha.</p>
<p>dude i never said i wasn't going to get c's. im done with math (i got 2 C's in math) and im done with it. hopefully, i wont get anymore.</p>
<p>I've actually interviewed a couple of doctors and brought up that topic.</p>
<p>I interviewed one doctor who graduated from UCLA.</p>
<p>Heres one of my Questions: Was being able to help people a big factor to choosing your career? How much did money factor in to the decision?</p>
<p>I don't remember exactly what he said, but he said that money was a big factor to him. He said that he had alot of classmates and co-workers who felt the same. Although, he did say he loved science.
In addition, he said that being able to help someone really wasn't the reason he chose his career. He went on saying that alot of other careers are able to help people. "It's a good thing to help poeple, but I would be lying if I said it was my calling."</p>
<p>That was in the past. Back then, yeah, docs made a ton of money. Plus it was easier to get accepted, so people found it as an easy way to make money.</p>
<p>Today, like I said, financial gain is much harder for a doctor. </p>
<p>Today, If you ask the same question to a current med student, you'll hear that "a lot" of his classmates don't say money is a big factor. I remember on a premed forum, one guy gave a slight (should say very subtle) hint of seeking monetary gain, and everyone started flaming him and told him to reconsider his career goals. It's changed a lot which is a good thing.</p>