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I graduated from an accredited 4 year University with a non-traditional major. (I am saying this while cringing simultaneously) my major was criminal justice and criminology. While it certainly is not the easiest major (it required two lab sciences of any sort, Statistics (which I took and passed twice), many research papers with theses, and the discussing of philosophical concepts or theories, etc) it is one of the worst majors to get in the United States. (Why isn't art history worse than mine???? What? or Communications where they sit around all day???) My honest opinion about it was that it was probably overall a lower-medium level of difficulty.
In the end, I finished with a GPA of 3.4 which was pretty much a cumulative score of my junior and senior year with senior year being mostly As with an occasional B. I originally wanted to go to law school which is part of the reason I stuck with this major but these days law school is for 99% of people, a waste of time and a bigger waste of money. Unless you're at a Tier I school AND at the top 10% of your class, the jobs just don't pay good enough amounts.
I am getting to my question. I see a lot of people that come from engineering backgrounds or law backgrounds where they were in the lucky 10% of their class somehow and got rich. Good for them. I would say I'm extremely good at reading, writing, discussing and comprehending advanced philosophical concepts, and memorizing. I am medium at math, I got a B- and then an A- or an A on my statistics classes. If I want I can be good at science.
Ok but I'm certainly not an engineer or a computer scientist or Tier I law school material. I don't think I could be an engineer either. I'm wondering whether or not I should go to medical school. Should I? Do I have potential if I do the pre-requisites or should I just aim for something else?
My problem is that I am extremely smart and I need a way to prove that I am so that I can get a well-paying job. I read science fiction all the time that deals with highly advanced concepts and discussions. My bachelors degree is not cutting it for me job wise. I also want to see people and society in general become healthy and happy.
In the end, I finished with a GPA of 3.4 which was pretty much a cumulative score of my junior and senior year with senior year being mostly As with an occasional B. I originally wanted to go to law school which is part of the reason I stuck with this major but these days law school is for 99% of people, a waste of time and a bigger waste of money. Unless you're at a Tier I school AND at the top 10% of your class, the jobs just don't pay good enough amounts.
I am getting to my question. I see a lot of people that come from engineering backgrounds or law backgrounds where they were in the lucky 10% of their class somehow and got rich. Good for them. I would say I'm extremely good at reading, writing, discussing and comprehending advanced philosophical concepts, and memorizing. I am medium at math, I got a B- and then an A- or an A on my statistics classes. If I want I can be good at science.
Ok but I'm certainly not an engineer or a computer scientist or Tier I law school material. I don't think I could be an engineer either. I'm wondering whether or not I should go to medical school. Should I? Do I have potential if I do the pre-requisites or should I just aim for something else?
My problem is that I am extremely smart and I need a way to prove that I am so that I can get a well-paying job. I read science fiction all the time that deals with highly advanced concepts and discussions. My bachelors degree is not cutting it for me job wise. I also want to see people and society in general become healthy and happy.
