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I did my undergrad in general bio and honestly it would have been useless if I didn't get in. The only jobs that I've seen around where I live are lab tech positions that want to pay 12 dollars an hour.
I looked up grad school and alot of the schools want you to take 5 years to get a PhD instead of the traditional 4 and still expect 60 to 80 hours a week or more worth of work. Then you have to do a post doc for 2 to 4 years to have a shot at a tenured position. This would have taken me until my mid to late 30s to do which would not have worked
If I had to do it over again I would have done a major that would have translated to a better job like nursing or exercise science and just take the prereqs for medicine in the summer or during easier semesters.
I'm really glad that I got in which makes the point of picking the wrong major moot but I definitely got lucky as I would have been screwed otherwise.
I looked up grad school and alot of the schools want you to take 5 years to get a PhD instead of the traditional 4 and still expect 60 to 80 hours a week or more worth of work. Then you have to do a post doc for 2 to 4 years to have a shot at a tenured position. This would have taken me until my mid to late 30s to do which would not have worked
If I had to do it over again I would have done a major that would have translated to a better job like nursing or exercise science and just take the prereqs for medicine in the summer or during easier semesters.
I'm really glad that I got in which makes the point of picking the wrong major moot but I definitely got lucky as I would have been screwed otherwise.