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Not sure if this is the right place to ask
but by enough, I mean enough to succeed/money/live well off
I'm in my last semester as a senior majoring in cheme. I have a cumulative gpa of 2.64 and a major gpa of 2.90.
When I started college, I wanted to go to medicine and major in biology. My sister, who was majoring in english a year ahead of me, told me to major in cheme so that it would "enhance my thinking skills". I did that, and she switched over a year later, so we both take classes together, and are expected to get our BS together at the end of this semester.
But before that, in my freshman year, I screwed up cause of personal issues, and my gpa was crap. Great way to start off college, amirite? Really, I would've done bad regardless of my major, but I picked myself up in sophomore year. And in the summer of sophomore year, I took the MCAT, but scored a 27. I didn't feel ready, but my mom wasn't ok with me taking a year off, so it was kind of a pushed/rushed study.
Now I'm here about to graduate looking for a job. No luck so far, but I guess that's why I have to network better. But my mom is yelling at me to go to med school because she thinks that a bs in cheme isn't good enough compared to an MD or DO (is it for a DO?) I doubt I could get into a good school with my grades, but what's more annoying is that 2 cheme students in my class consider themselves pre-med, and my sister found out and yells "why don't you go into pre-med too?" (she doesn't know anything else about them, she just found this out from someone else in the class, and went off from there. Though I know one of those people have a low gpa, though I don't know how low).
Personally from the people I've networked with in the past, a bs in cheme is "not enough". One guy who has worked in big companies with a BS in cheme, saw how the industry "was run by business majors", and went to go get an mba. Another person I've talked with in another big company said that he "didn't want to spend years working up the ladder" so he got a phd to have a high position in the company.
I wouldn't mind going to grad school, though again with the grades, I don't know how I'd get into a good grad school. I''d probably talk with some professors about it, but my mom is like "oh if you're going to get a phd, why not spend the $ and years in med school instead?"
Well gee mom, maybe its cause I spent 4 years on cheme, which is its own profession, and I don't wanna waste all that knowledge and work. But then she just points to the two cheme students I mentioned earlier and uses that against me. Then again, I doubt I would remember everything in cheme. Like who the hell understands what fugacity is? Mostly software stuff is used to take care of thermo stuff anyway.
I dunno, maybe I'm wrong on some things, but I'm not exactly set on which path to take, and what I would have to do to take those paths.
but by enough, I mean enough to succeed/money/live well off
I'm in my last semester as a senior majoring in cheme. I have a cumulative gpa of 2.64 and a major gpa of 2.90.
When I started college, I wanted to go to medicine and major in biology. My sister, who was majoring in english a year ahead of me, told me to major in cheme so that it would "enhance my thinking skills". I did that, and she switched over a year later, so we both take classes together, and are expected to get our BS together at the end of this semester.
But before that, in my freshman year, I screwed up cause of personal issues, and my gpa was crap. Great way to start off college, amirite? Really, I would've done bad regardless of my major, but I picked myself up in sophomore year. And in the summer of sophomore year, I took the MCAT, but scored a 27. I didn't feel ready, but my mom wasn't ok with me taking a year off, so it was kind of a pushed/rushed study.
Now I'm here about to graduate looking for a job. No luck so far, but I guess that's why I have to network better. But my mom is yelling at me to go to med school because she thinks that a bs in cheme isn't good enough compared to an MD or DO (is it for a DO?) I doubt I could get into a good school with my grades, but what's more annoying is that 2 cheme students in my class consider themselves pre-med, and my sister found out and yells "why don't you go into pre-med too?" (she doesn't know anything else about them, she just found this out from someone else in the class, and went off from there. Though I know one of those people have a low gpa, though I don't know how low).
Personally from the people I've networked with in the past, a bs in cheme is "not enough". One guy who has worked in big companies with a BS in cheme, saw how the industry "was run by business majors", and went to go get an mba. Another person I've talked with in another big company said that he "didn't want to spend years working up the ladder" so he got a phd to have a high position in the company.
I wouldn't mind going to grad school, though again with the grades, I don't know how I'd get into a good grad school. I''d probably talk with some professors about it, but my mom is like "oh if you're going to get a phd, why not spend the $ and years in med school instead?"
Well gee mom, maybe its cause I spent 4 years on cheme, which is its own profession, and I don't wanna waste all that knowledge and work. But then she just points to the two cheme students I mentioned earlier and uses that against me. Then again, I doubt I would remember everything in cheme. Like who the hell understands what fugacity is? Mostly software stuff is used to take care of thermo stuff anyway.
I dunno, maybe I'm wrong on some things, but I'm not exactly set on which path to take, and what I would have to do to take those paths.