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After years of ruminating and stalking this forum obsessively, I finally decided to commit and officially pursue the pre-med pathway. I declared a major in biology and will be taking the necessary pre-reqs.
However, I met with my advisor today and was pretty taken aback. I definitely feel like she was trying to scare me and change my mind. She said my courseload would be too difficult because I am playing catch-up at the moment (i'm a sophomore), even though i'm managing chem, bio, physics, and a multicultural just fine. She scolded me and "doubted my commitment" because I am not super-involved with the school. She said that med schools would look unfavorably on my "resume" because of disloyalty to the school.
Besides school I divide my time amongst:
-working p/t at a restaurant (10-15 hrs/week)
-riding and training horses, regularly competing (3-4 weekdays, both weekend days - I would guess 25-30 hrs/week)
During the summer I am a working student for my barn and spend 40+ hrs/week there. I am hopefully going to work for an anesthesiologist this summer - in the afternoons/nights, so I can still do morning barn chores/ride.
The only thing I do through the school is the language program - I have a language partner that I regularly talk/meet with so that she can improve her english.
Is my advisor right? Will doing a sport outside of school instead of for the school hurt me? Does it really matter that my passions do not involve the university?
However, I met with my advisor today and was pretty taken aback. I definitely feel like she was trying to scare me and change my mind. She said my courseload would be too difficult because I am playing catch-up at the moment (i'm a sophomore), even though i'm managing chem, bio, physics, and a multicultural just fine. She scolded me and "doubted my commitment" because I am not super-involved with the school. She said that med schools would look unfavorably on my "resume" because of disloyalty to the school.
Besides school I divide my time amongst:
-working p/t at a restaurant (10-15 hrs/week)
-riding and training horses, regularly competing (3-4 weekdays, both weekend days - I would guess 25-30 hrs/week)
During the summer I am a working student for my barn and spend 40+ hrs/week there. I am hopefully going to work for an anesthesiologist this summer - in the afternoons/nights, so I can still do morning barn chores/ride.
The only thing I do through the school is the language program - I have a language partner that I regularly talk/meet with so that she can improve her english.
Is my advisor right? Will doing a sport outside of school instead of for the school hurt me? Does it really matter that my passions do not involve the university?
). Good luck.