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<p>I don’t know about most, but this was more or less true for me when I entered college.</p>
<p>After my freshman year, I decided that I didn’t want it after all (even though my freshman grades were actually pretty good). So I did something else instead. I wouldn’t say it was particularly traumatic or unhealthy or anything. It did mean some floundering while I figured out what I wanted to do, but I had to figure that out at some point (and it probably wouldn’t have been in high school even had I not been in the pre-med pigeonhole, because my interests changed a lot). Better than realizing halfway through med school that I was living in denial about whether I actually wanted this career that I had spent so much time and money working toward.</p>