Thinking about switching careers into business...opinions...

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I've always been headed toward a medical career for my future, I don't know where the notion originated or what kept me headed toward it, but it's all I've really considered. I've grown up with the profession of doctor in mind, but recently I've been thinking deeply about what I really want to do. What would suit me, personally, and not what my parents urged me to do. I really admire the idea of saving peoples lives for a living, but I don't know if I'm willing to invest the ten most important years doing so. Do I really want to spend my twenties, years I'm supposed to be having the most fun and enjoying life in, working my ass off, stressing out, and having little time to myself? I just don't know.</p>

<p>Another future obstacle scares me: medical school. I, personally, am not the top of my class or the highest SAT scorer in my school(3.9, 1440, respectively), and considering the fact that, what is it, 10 to 20% of people applying for med school don't get in, worries me because I might not be in the strongest percentile. What to do if I don't get in? What else can you do with a biochem degree except pursue medicine in med school? The options are very few comparatively. I abhor the idea of going to a foreign school for a good number of years only to come back and be in an even more competitive environment.</p>

<p>I just think medicine is a very insecure PATH(read: path, not profession), and it takes full-fledged interest and absolute certainty to pursue, things I can't quite say I have at this point. I don't know if I'll be able to handle the coursework and whatnot in order to be a doctor.</p>

<p>Looking away from medicine I've been considering business. I like the lifestyle of being a businessman: going to work in a professional outfit, meetings with classy high-profile people, driving the nice bimmer to work, getting out of work early and having the rest of the day to yourself, living in a nice condo alongside the beach, all while in your twenties. </p>

<p>I dunno, I'm just re-contemplating things I never really considered heavily. Any supporting opinions would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>Business is a horrific grind too, especially in your 20s; there's no free lunch. Docs are not the smartest kids on the block, so no worries there.
If you want to help people live longer and healthier lives and make a 1-to-1 impact many times a day, only medicine will do. If not, forget it.</p>

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<p>At what exact age do you get out and actually start practicing and earning money if you take the traditional medical path?</p>

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<p>Sorry to barge in on your thread, but I'm in a similar situation. I'm around 3.9 and 1500 SAT, but not sure if that'll make the cut. Does anyone have statistics on the correlation of SAT scores --> medical school acceptance?</p>

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<p>Are you kidding MEditerranean? You cannot be that stupid. You are comparing SAT scores to med school acceptance, which have no correlation whatsoever. Study in college and you would be fine.<br>
BTW, to answer your ridiculous question, you have a great SAT score, and i would think you are smart enough to get into med school.</p>

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<p>If you truly care about medicine then you will keep trying to get into med. school any way you can if you get denied. For example my personal plan is to go to a foreign med. school if I don't get in here. If its your passion then there is no reason to stop trying to persue it if you were denied from American med. schools.</p>

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<p>Esrajay, I don't remember which medical school, but it may be Mt. Sinai's, which said that the successful medical school student who passes the medical schoo exam (after graduation, in order to practice medicine), has a SAT verbal score of about 650. So, there are medical schools which are making correlations between SAT score --> medical school acceptance. Note: The Mt. Sinai MedSchool's statistics of a 650 score was for students applying for Humanities Early Acceptance.</p>

<p>But you're right, I think I'm worrying too much about it - and for no reason.</p>

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<p>Erm, anyone else with some input on my message?</p>

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<p>If you have your own medical practice after residency and everything , you're acting as a business man as well, since you got to get customers, do the overhead stuff. So why don't you major in business in college and take medical school prereqs and apply, if you get in, good , be a doctor and have your own practice later, probably earning way more than some business men, but if you don't , you get the second alternative of getting MBA or something and still not wasting your business , economics, whatever major. Get a plan B, you can go either way. Personally, I'm in a similar situation, but I kind of decide to do general biology or (gasp) even biochem. in college because I like to study about life. Anyone else wants to take a stab at this frustrating -questions?</p>

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<p>By the way, my gpa is around 3.9 too, 1410 SAT scores, and sorry for my last sentence's verb-noun disagreement, anyone else wanna take a stabe at this frustrating question?</p>