<p>Well first of all I'm new to this. I am currently a senior in high school with about two weeks left until graduation. 🎊🎉🎊 (Sooo excited!!!)
But what I want to talk about is this decision with either doing pre-pharm or pre-med.
I come from a family background of hard working parents my dad has two jobs gets about 5 hours asleep or 4 if that a day. My mother works full time. We've been comfortable but at the same time were the blue collar type family so I guess that's rub on to me too. Money wasn't a big issue in my family until recently when my mom lost her job and even before we didn't have much. But we were happy.
My grades in high school were not the best but being lazy was my problem. I had a 3.0 not the best but I know I could have done better and I know you've heard that saying a lot but I really do believe in myself and if anything that should be a plus. And you might be asking the question why does he want to go to the medical field? Well I really really enjoy science and math. Science being I'm good in and it's just interesting and cool I think to learn about the body and how everything works that really amazes me. And math is more like a fun thing to me I enjoy solving problems.
I'm just looking for people who can give me some words if encouragement and wisdom.
I know I can be anything I want to or do anything I want to if I put my mind to it. I lettered in varsity for football 3 years. Wrestling 1. Track 2 years. But besides all of that I really think I would enjoy being a doctor and helping people.
And the way I see things is I would rather slave and put forth 110 percent in college for 10- however many years of schooling to be happy when I get older. That's all I have to give. Thanks for reading. Comments are welcome.</p>
<p>Your story reminds me a high school classmate of my husband’s–that person slacked off all through high school–then turned it on in college and is now a physician. (Actually he was faculty member at Harvard School of Medicine last I heard–about 13 years ago.)</p>
<p>So it is possible to turn things around, but the road to medical school is long, bumpy and requires tons of dedication and perserverance.</p>
<p>Liking science and math and wanting to help people is not enough of reason to be doctor. (You can help people in lots of ways and 99% of them have nothing to do with medicine.)</p>
<p>During the next phase of your academic career, buckle down, don’t skip classes (too easy to get behind!), find opportunities to do volunteer work and think about why you want to be a physician. Please get in contact with health professions advising office at your school–they will be able to help find out what courses you need to take for medical school.</p>
<p>If you truly enjoy math, consider majoring in math in college. It has much better job prospects should you not get accepted into med school than does bio or chem.</p>
<p>Both of my kids were math majors. (Well, one was physics & math, the other was neuro & math.) O is in med school and just started her clinical training (will probably end up as a surgeon); the other one will probably be going to med school next year. (Probably because she has the package–grades, scores, activities, recommendations, interviewing skills–but admission to med school is never a sure thing even for what looks like “sure things”.)</p>
<p>One other thing you should know–medicine does not necessarily lead to happiness. It’s is a very difficult life. Medicine requires years of training, tons of debt and long work hours that always include nights, weekends and holidays.</p>