<p>There is yet another category. I know one Yale student who got into a top 5 school and took a two year deferment to work at a top business consulting firm. The student joined exactly two years after being admitted in 2010.</p>
<p>I’m still not 100% sure I understand, especially the second half, but I’ll explain my thoughts and hopefully it’ll be responsive.</p>
<p>Yale students often prefer fields other than medicine. These include law, government, the arts (writing, visual, architecture, whathaveyou), academia, nonprofit work, or the classic “business” careers: investment banking, management consulting, corporate management. You seem to suggest that this only matters if the OP wants one of these things right now, which I think is both (1) wrong, and (2) irrelevant.</p>
<p>It’s wrong because many students arrive at Yale and change their minds when better options present themselves. Many freshmen have a sort of “village people” approach to careers: they know about doctors, lawyers, firefighters, and some generic entity known as “business.” As they learn more and more, they often find something else that appeals to them. And yes, this does happen quite a bit, particularly at schools recruited as heavily as Yale.
Borrowed from:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1490082-duke-vs-direct-admission-program.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1490082-duke-vs-direct-admission-program.html</a></p>
<p>It’s irrelevant because we were discussing Yale’s statistics and why they have a relatively small number of students applying for medical school. My argument was that the small number is not concerning because most of those students probably don’t want to do medicine.</p>
<p>I hope that answers your questions.</p>
<p>GAMOM, actually you have a perfect 1st hand account, if you could provide us with circumstance of her 3 roommates, of course anonymously, their journey to med school, 1 to 4 yr out. We all agree it’s perfect to start at 23 or 24, question is whether the delay is pre-planned (explore other interest/career, work for a job to raise the fund), or involuntarily, less desirable outcome considering debt load carrying thru later years. This will greatly help aspiring premeds to plan out.</p>
<p>Bluedevil, you have answered my question, many posts back, which is people change minds, don’t you think that’s obvious.</p>
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<p>This reminds me of Bill Clinton’s famous “it depends on the meaning of the word is is” effort to cast doubt on the meaning the word “is” in the Monica Lewinsky (sp?) trial.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was a small child when that happened, so I was flabbergasted when I saw the footage for the first time as an adult.</p>
<p>EDIT: Well, I guess not actually a small child. But I didn’t notice it at the time.</p>