That's usually everyone's response when I tell them I'm not going straight to med school (So you had a bad GPA?)... I graduated with a 3.99 cGPA / 4.00 sGPA...
... actually I got an A- in two classes: a neuroscience class and a writing class.
So true! I see classmates with this kind of pressure. It makes me happy that to my parents are like "Oh, look - she's breathing, we are so proud of her!"
) and i want to get into REALLY GOOD physical shape..these are things u CANNOT do in med school, most certainly cannot do in residency and will find very very hard to do once u get a job..most premeds are very narrow-minded..fellow guju here..ya there are a lot of ppl like that and its really annoying..im doing well and i have the stats to get in to a good school straight out.
my parents are pushing me to take 2 years off though probably not wut u would expect from guju parents
i only want to take 1 year off to learn 2 languages (one of which is spanish, the other one, i think u know my fellow guju
there are a lot of indians who are doctors, and these parents must know that 1 year really isn't a big deal..yet when searching for a spouse for their kid they all of a sudden place so much importance on adhering to the strict timeline...life is weird
I love it when people don't keep track of their lies.
What I heard wasn't necessarily an uninformed statement, but just a stupid statement that made this pre-med look so full of b.s.
Early on in the semester: "Yeah, man I got a perfect 4.0 all throughout undergrad."
Later on in the semester: "I'll be going to med school in the Caribbean."
What a liar about his "4.0".
Yeah it is amazing how the process is so easily to figure out if u do your own research but so many people I know look at me like whoa how do I know so much. yet, I always feel like saying if you'd stop acting like a helpless, lazy premed you would now how. I never say it but it is what i feel like saying. It amazes me how many are so ill informed of the process to med school.
When I tell my undereducated relatives that I'm working and planning on going to med school (take note, I will be the first person on that side of the family to attend college, much less anything past those first four years) they ask me to cure all the congenital diseases they collectively have. So far I'm scheduled to cure cancer, huntington's, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes.
Because med school acceptances means that you're smart and grad students aren't...maybe they're just the same obtuse people as those mentioned in this thread...
I think you isn't smart.
jkthere are a lot of indians who are doctors, and these parents must know that 1 year really isn't a big deal..yet when searching for a spouse for their kid they all of a sudden place so much importance on adhering to the strict timeline...life is weird
I get this all the time. Most people just think it's just another community college
Ah yes, and I am slated to cure Rheumatoid Arthritis. Good luck to you in your respective fields, sir or madame.
"I'm going to take my MCAT in September and submit my primary on the day of the deadline."
I don't really have many quotes, I associated with the "successful" pre-meds who knew what they were talking about for the most part, just a couple people who put on their Facebook "Radiology" or "Orthopaedic Surgeon" for the major in undergrad...
Or I remember the girl in my high school who came around telling everyone to join the Army because (I'm paraphrasing, it was about 6 years ago, I just remember calling her on her BS cuz it was foul):
"[The Army] can train me to be a doctor in 6 weeks. Going to school for 8 years is dumb, would you rather spend 6 weeks or 8 years learning medicine? Then when I finish the Army I'll be a doctor and make $XXX,XXX while most people are still in school"
I know what you mean...
I don't really have many quotes, I associated with the "successful" pre-meds who knew what they were talking about for the most part, just a couple people who put on their Facebook "Radiology" or "Orthopaedic Surgeon" for the major in undergrad...
Or I remember the girl in my high school who came around telling everyone to join the Army because (I'm paraphrasing, it was about 6 years ago, I just remember calling her on her BS cuz it was foul):
"[The Army] can train me to be a doctor in 6 weeks. Going to school for 8 years is dumb, would you rather spend 6 weeks or 8 years learning medicine? Then when I finish the Army I'll be a doctor and make $XXX,XXX while most people are still in school"
I think you isn't smart.
how did you do? what was your score on the sections?
