<p>^Yes, Case gave my D. a lot in Merit, this was her biggest award. She has chosen another school for UG though…and looking back it was a great decision.
Just talked to her yesterday. Going thru rotations and working with different types of people and seeing very complicated cases (due to her current rotation place), she stressed one more time that focusing too much on the Med. School while in UG is a huge mistake. You should pursue your interests, follow your heart and try to develop as a human being as much as possible. Do not listen too much to others, value your personal opinion more. Her frineds pre-meds sometime wondered why D. was involved in certain volunteering activity and for couple years also (she was the only pre-med there, others were psychology major), why sorority (again, there were only 2 pre-meds there), few other things. She sticked to whatever her heart told her to get involved and it is paying off in the greatest way right now at Med. Schoool. Actually, she was told during interviews that her experiences were interesting and a break from the same over and over. This makes person to be remembered. However, D. has never had this in mind, she just followed her heart.
Again, do not keep Med. School and all kind of statistics in mind too much when choosing your UG. And while you attending there, stay flexible, be open to opportunites that you did not have in mind before, just try, and yes, take a risk sometime. The UG is the place and time for all of these. You will be happy later that you did.</p>