When do people usually go to medical school?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Do people usually go right after college? Is that what the majority does? Also, if you don't go at first what do you do in the meantime?</p>

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<p>Mean age is 24. Lots of other things.</p>

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<p>Here's the data from the AAMC</p>

<p>AAMC:</a> FACTS Table 6: Age of Applicants to U.S. Medical Schools at Anticipated Matriculation by Race and Ethnicity, and Sex</p>

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<p>But dont you graduate when youre about 22? Why would the mean be so high?</p>

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<p>Because people don't go straight to medical school.</p>

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<p>What are the other options besides going straight to medical school? Research?</p>

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What are the other options besides going straight to medical school? Research?

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<p>Research, time off, work, travel, Teach for America, Peace Corps, Greenpeace.</p>

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<p>People take 5 years to graduate, they don't get in the first time they try, they do research, they do Peace Corps or Teach for America, they travel, they spend time improving their application by taking more classes or doing more volunteering or study harder for the MCAT...</p>

<p>Throw in the handful of other people who were doing something else entirely (I know people who were PharmD's for several years, in agricultural banking, 6th grade science teachers, PA's, NP's, were working on their PhD's, one who was a writer...) and then decided to go back to school, and the mean creeps up.</p>