<p>For students who do pre-med in college through like biology major or others of those type... what kind of jobs do you do if you don't get into Med-School? What do you do with your life?... Now I am having a big dillema... I am an International student, which means it will be very hard for me to get into top med school, and I got accepted into Chem BE at JHU. However engineering at JHU is not that great (#15 in USnews).. I was planning to double major in mechanical engineering or something, however it seems that other than BME, other engineering majors at JHU are not that strong. What should I do? Should I choose the safe path by doing engineering at Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>You do a post bac or get your Masters and apply again and again until you get in. Or you work for a year and try to bring up your MCAT or something like that.</p>
<p>i was actually talking to my parents about this (they're big on having back-up plans), and while they both attended graduate schools, this was their advice.
if you've been working closely with a professor during undergrad (which would be a good idea regardless to get that research experience and a stellar rec), let him know that if you don't get into med school, you'd be willing to continue working in his lab.<br>
Sorry, to clarify, to continue working for a year until you're ready to apply again. not to forgo med school and become a lab tech :)
they wouldn't have to train you, you'd already know what was going on in the lab, and maybe you could crank out a publication or two. it'd still be a productive year and i'm sure you'd be able to fit in other things (like additional coursework) around it.
dunno if this applies as much to med school as it does to grad school, but it seemed like sound advice. hope that helps :)</p>
<p>commit Sudoku! err...Seppuku. Actually, my mom said she has it all planned out for me - if I dont get into medical school, I can help my parents run the food business they run :P</p>
<p>poppop... you are being very uptight--to say that JHU's program is "just" ranked 15, thus it must not be very good is very naive. Additionally, your concern should not be getting into a "top med school," but instead getting into med school. period.</p>
<p>Everyone in high school places a heavy weight on prestige, and I think this is a problem because at the end of the road, while prestige matters, your skills are going to earn you your paycheck. </p>
<p>So chill out, put things in perspective, and work hard at whatever you choose to do.</p>
<p>I plan on applying to both Psychology graduate schools and med schools at the same time probably. I don't really know. A Lot could change in 4 years.</p>