You wrote that you have other offers and it wouldn’t be too hard to turn down this opportunity for a sports scholarship. I felt unsure, reading this, whether you are committed to the sport for college. Do you love it? Can you live happily without it? Is there a part of you that would prefer to enter college unencumbered by the responsibilities and time drain of being on a team?
I was just picking up on some tentativeness from your first post. It is fine to drop some activities from high school, however intense they may have been, when you get to college. It really depends on what you want. But it is true to doing a science with medical school in mind, and a sport with many hours of training and competition, is a tough road and requires full-hearted commitment.
Then again, it is also possible that you will be one of many high schoolers wanting to be a doctor, who change their mind about med school and even about major during undergrad years. If you suddenly wanted to major in philosophy, there would be no labs and the conflicts would be lessened
@compmom I do love my sport and would love to compete in college. However, the rest of my life won’t be based on tumbling. I need to make sure that I have a strong chance to get into a good medical school/any other graduate school because that’s what I hope to spend the rest of my life doing.
Since first posting this thread, I’ve received several other acceptances from better schools than the uni that wants to recruit me. I haven’t made a decision yet, but it will be difficult and I would probably be successful picking any option.
I wonder if you can continue acro/tumbling in a less time-consuming way? Or transfer to a dance studio that has acro, working with silks, that kind of thing.
@SuperGymnast_04 understand that all US med schools are good schools and can serve as pathway for whatever direction you want to go. Most who start as premed change their mind for any number of reasons. Of those that actually apply 60% fail to start anywhere. Many only end up with one acceptance. Getting into any US med school is quite the accomplishment for anyone.
