Do You Like Other Premeds

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How do you feel about most premeds?

  • I generally hate them

    Votes: 39 12.9%
  • I generally dislike them.

    Votes: 133 43.9%
  • I'm usually neutral to them.

    Votes: 78 25.7%
  • I generally like them.

    Votes: 46 15.2%
  • I generally love them.

    Votes: 7 2.3%

  • Total voters
    303

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I've noticed that there seems to be a lot of hate of premeds from med students and other premeds. I myself must admit that I'm not fond of most premeds that I meet. How do you feel about most premeds (of course there will be exceptions).
 
In general I avoid people in my major (mostly pre-meds) just because I don't want them competing with me and I don't wanna compete with them. One o my best guy friends is pre-med and we share many of the same classes but we have an unspoken don't ask don't tell policy about our grades, MCAT scores etc.

Plus, I'm neurotic enough on my own that I can't stand to listen to people go "omg do you think he'll test on this? I'm soooo not ready. omg I'll never learn this. How do you feel about this section?" etc etc especially when they go and get a 99% on the test the next day
 
lmao at the results thusfar. I disdain most pre-meds. That being said, I love me, and I'm pre-med...
 
Wow, a lot of self-loathing in this poll. I personally think that most people view the typical premed in light of a gunner. No one likes a gunner so that might explain this poll. But a good majority of premeds aren't gunners(malicious over-achievers) .

My personal disdain comes from the loud and obnoxious premeds. You know who they are. They announce to the whole world that they are going to be MDs even before taking Chem 1(Look at me, i'm a "pre-med major!" :laugh:) They wear scrubs everywhere(there are obnoxious med students like this too). Talk about their Beverly Hills plastic surgery practice before taking the MCAT.I could think of more but you get the point.


In general, I like regular premeds or at worst I'm neutral to them.
 
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I don't have any problems with the other premeds at my school. They are typically not the anal, gunner premeds that are generally the stereotype. We don't talk about school outside of class or outside of getting together a few days before an exam to study, because we're so sick of it that we need some other form of conversation.

But the way some of you talk about the others at your schools...maybe my school is outside the norm(?)...so I don't know how I would feel at other schools:shrug: Maybe it's because my school is a big drinking school, so we have other things (like what bar we'll be going to that night and who will have the best specials) on our minds. haha
 
One o my best guy friends is pre-med and we share many of the same classes but we have an unspoken don't ask don't tell policy about our grades, MCAT scores etc.

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My premad colleagues hardly ever want to do anything or go out.👎
 
My premad colleagues hardly ever want to do anything or go out.👎

Quoted for emphasis.


I actually like the premeds I know. There will always be some to avoid but I've seen a lot more of the premed neuroticism here on SDN than anywhere else. At my schools, premeds have generally blended in pretty well unless you're looking for them. The premeds I hang out with sometimes are all quite well-adjusted individuals who you would not generally think are premed.... (they're generally smart, humble, and fun/social/well-adjusted)
 
I think freshmen premeds are the worst. And I generally expected these results 😛 We're a pretty self-hating group.
 
I'm in love with the pre-med environment, and being the 'loop' of things. I just hate it when people are ahead of me (grades/in the know), but that rarely happens..
 
we have a lot of premeds at our school, and none are really competitive.. its actually good to see someone in the field and talk abt the same problems..

u guyz who say that u hate pre-meds know in your mind that u urself are the gunners.. the neurotic "i know everything" kind of people
 
Most of my friends are business majors.
 
I just finished my first semester and it's interesting to see how many people started the year as premed and "had a change of heart" after one semester. The premed people that I choose to associate with do care quite a bit about classes, but we are not competitive with each other.
 
Hate is a very intense word, so I went with dislike. I think it's unnecessary when people introduce themselves with their name, major, and pre-med, as if it's permanently name-tagged to their chest. I mean, it's great that you want to be doctor...I do too, but just tone it down, study hard, and good luck. It might impress everyone else in the room, but the other pre-meds are either rolling their eyes or taking mental notes of their competition.

One o my best guy friends is pre-med and we share many of the same classes but we have an unspoken don't ask don't tell policy about our grades, MCAT scores etc.

Sounds like a good policy to me.
 
60% of premeds hate/dislike other premeds. You guys realize that fellow premeds will one day become fellow med students, and then colleagues?
 
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i dislike them for sure, I remember thhis 1 guy last year, I got my hands on a cell bio exam from a previous year and I gave it to him without him asking. Later I found out he had an orgo exam that he didnt even mention to me even though i asked if he had any previous year exams!!

Where is the common courtesy?!?! I ended up with a 95 which i made a point of rubbing in his face, damn that felt good.🙂
 
60% of premeds hate other premeds. You guys realize that fellow premeds will one day become fellow med students, and then colleagues?

yea im actually worried about that... but i feel attitudes will change once in med school. at least i pray to God...
 
60% of premeds hate other premeds. You guys realize that fellow premeds will one day become fellow med students, and then colleagues?

60% of premeds wont make it to medschool. I'll deal with the rest..
 
60% of premeds hate other premeds. You guys realize that fellow premeds will one day become fellow med students, and then colleagues?

I feel like many of the premeds everyone hates will not make it far enough to med school. That's right, I said it.

Edit: Damn, aleks beat me to it.
 
What in the world? I never knew premed's didn't like each other. Never felt or saw this in my school. A lot of my friends were premed and their friends were premed too. I think we all got along. Though, the think I find the most annoying is when premeds are super secretive about their grades and MCAT and stuff, I just get freaking annoyed when people do that, and then I don't like them anymore. I don't like competing against anyone, I study, you study, you got what you got, and I got what I got. What the big deal. But other then that, I don't think there is too much dislike...
 
I hate premeds especially the asian ones and I'm asian. They're so anal retentive and straight up uninteresting. All they want to talk about is med school/mcats/compare ECs.
 
I love my family, I love food, and I love baby animals, but I would never say I love pre-meds. Do the two people or anyone else want to elaborate?
 
When I was in undergrad, I got along with premeds... the real ones anyway.

I couldn't stand the fake ones.

You know who I'm talking about.
 
I don't hate premeds. I nothing them.
 
I get along quite well with other premeds I meet because they usually make the same effort to be friends and are willing to help when they can. The more positive connections you have in college, especially at a big uni, the better off you are when it comes to asking for to borrow their old notes/exams or strike up a conversation to get trustworthy second opinions about something. I do my best to reciprocate when possible. But I have met a couple premeds that are obnoxiously competitive and only care about themselves are the ones that just irritate me. They ask for favors and then never give back. I still talk to them sometimes just to be nice, but avoid them for anything unless they are last resort for help.
 
when i was in undergrad (graduated this past may), i think around application time, it was kinda competitive-ish. nothing hardcore tho. but i like pre-meds, being one myself. i feel like we understand each other more, maybe. as far as pressure to get best grades, etc etc.
 
I'm pretty neutral to them. I've only met two who I outright disliked ("Grey's Anatomy"-inspired bimbos, for lack of a better explanation), and they've since changed their focus. Now I think they're "Legally Blonde"-inspired bimbos instead.

When my school's pre-health society has meetings, I generally try to hang out with the nursing student population. THEY are an awesome bunch. I love nurses and nursing students. They're honestly kind and earnest in the BEST ways. 😍
 
I'm pretty neutral to them. I've only met two who I outright disliked ("Grey's Anatomy"-inspired bimbos, for lack of a better explanation), and they've since changed their focus. Now I think they're "Legally Blonde"-inspired bimbos instead.

When my school's pre-health society has meetings, I generally try to hang out with the nursing student population. THEY are an awesome bunch. I love nurses and nursing students. They're honestly kind and earnest in the BEST ways. 😍

So true. Nursing students are a lot of fun... although far more busy than most any premed!
 
I generally dislike most premeds at my school. That being said, most of the premeds at my school are the kind of premed who knows exactly where they want to go to school (Harvard for sure!), exactly what residency they want to match into (General Surgery, because they don't want do deal with patients), what fellowship they want to do (Cardiothoracic surgery is the only way to go!), and where they want to practice after it is all said and done. These are the people I dislike.

If you're premed, and I don't know you're premed, or have a vague idea that you may be premed, then I usually don't have a problem with you.
 
^UCLA med, UCLA internal medicine, UCLA hem/onc fellowship, UCLA Medical Center for practicing medicine for me.
 
I generally dislike most premeds at my school. That being said, most of the premeds at my school are the kind of premed who knows exactly where they want to go to school (Harvard for sure!), exactly what residency they want to match into (General Surgery, because they don't want do deal with patients), what fellowship they want to do (Cardiothoracic surgery is the only way to go!), and where they want to practice after it is all said and done. These are the people I dislike.

If you're premed, and I don't know you're premed, or have a vague idea that you may be premed, then I usually don't have a problem with you.

You might want to tell your peers that general surgeons definitely deal with patients and that they might want to consider pathology. Or you might not. I think it's more fun not to say anything. :meanie:
 
The worst kinda of pre-meds are those kids who sit in the front row and ask questions that are way too advanced for the class to show off, correct the profs, or think lecture is the same as office hours and refuse to let the class move on until they understand a concept. There is always THAT guy or THAT girl in my bio and chem classes. maybe they aren't always pre-med but 9 times /10 they are.
 
The worst kinda of pre-meds are those kids who sit in the front row and ask questions that are way too advanced for the class to show off, correct the profs, or think lecture is the same as office hours and refuse to let the class move on until they understand a concept. There is always THAT guy or THAT girl in my bio and chem classes. maybe they aren't always pre-med but 9 times /10 they are.

Do you go to my school?
 
I actually enjoy airheaded pre-meds. I heard this being said by an airheaded bimbo while walking from class, "Yeah, I need to get my EMT thing, start volunteering, and other **** like that so I can be a doctor."
 
I actually enjoy airheaded pre-meds. I heard this being said by an airheaded bimbo while walking from class, "Yeah, I need to get my EMT thing, start volunteering, and other **** like that so I can be a doctor."

I tend to dumb myself down a little bit around other pre-meds or at least pretend not to care as much. Mostly though, that's just so they won't try to compete with me because I've had some pre-meds who try to one up you on everything. Plus people seem more willing to answer questions if they don't see me as a "threat" to their curve.
 
I've noticed that there seems to be a lot of hate of premeds from med students and other premeds. I myself must admit that I'm not fond of most premeds that I meet. How do you feel about most premeds (of course there will be exceptions).

I transferred to a school that turns out to be enormously pre-med. As a junior, most of my classes were with pre-meds, and it really changed my opinion about other pre-meds. I thought I'd find a group of people who shared my goals and would therefore be great study partners. I was wrong. They're competitive, arrogant, and insecure all at once. Some would intentionally mislead me when they found out I was new here. They'd deliberately give me bad advice about everything from which professors I should choose to how I should study for exams given by that professor. They wouldn't share ANY information that might actually be helpful. Fortunately, though I was naive in assuming they'd all (like me) think of medical and pre-medical education as a team effort, I wasn't stupid enough to blindly follow their advice.

In my senior year, my classes are with others in a very small major. I like this group. We really do help each other, study together, and approach our classes as a team. As some of us get interviews and acceptances, there is no petty jealousy...we go out as a group and celebrate. (I'm sure there IS petty jealousy, but it's not evident).

The fact is, many of the pre-meds we hate will be our colleagues for life. We can only take comfort in the fact that many of them will also be the ones who are never truly happy, because they'll never stop competing with everyone around them and will always be bitter about SOMEONE who surpassed them in the chain of command, or with a bigger and fancier private practice.

I've learned to enjoy working with the ones I like, and ignore the rest. It's not worth feeding into the negativity. I don't need to be better than anyone else, and I certainly don't think it's worth sacrificing everything in my personal life to prove that I am somehow superior. I just want to be a good doctor who proves that I'm worthy of respect from my patients and colleagues.

I'll admit that last year, when I was dealing with the aformentioned group of students, I was disgusted and alienated. I expressed this to a friend of mine who is an extremely successful physician, who completed med school, residency, and fellowships at Hopkins, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt, and UPenn. He responded with a long and reassuring letter about how in the scheme of things, the good ones rise to the top, and the jerks that we all love to hate eventually get their butts handed to them, and either learn from it or continue to be miserable, petty people who are never fulfilled.

I suppose that's to be expected in all avenues of life. I have so many role models I want to emulate--physicians who are highly skilled, moral, and get along well with everyone from their colleagues to the housekeeping staff and cafeteria crew. Patients love them, nurses love them, and their families love them. I'd rather be like them than the Chief of Medicine who is miserable and only finds solace in their achievements and the perks that accompany their job title.

Sorry for rambling. Having worked in the medical field, I've already had the preview of what all types of pre-meds will become in the future. Medicine is a long haul, and it helps to remind yourself that it takes all kinds, but not everyone is out solely to push others down to get to the top.
 
After seeing this poll, "be the change you wish to see" came to mind...
 
I transferred to a school that turns out to be enormously pre-med. As a junior, most of my classes were with pre-meds, and it really changed my opinion about other pre-meds. I thought I'd find a group of people who shared my goals and would therefore be great study partners. I was wrong. They're competitive, arrogant, and insecure all at once. Some would intentionally mislead me when they found out I was new here. They'd deliberately give me bad advice about everything from which professors I should choose to how I should study for exams given by that professor. They wouldn't share ANY information that might actually be helpful. Fortunately, though I was naive in assuming they'd all (like me) think of medical and pre-medical education as a team effort, I wasn't stupid enough to blindly follow their advice.

Future med school gunners...

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Courtesy of the Underwear Drawer
 
I dont hate them, but talking about MED SCHOOL SO MUCH AND CLASSES and their specialty, blah blah blah is pretty annoying. I guess freshmen pre-meds are the worst, half of my class claimed that their pre-med. Im not going to claim a pre med till I pass those weed out classes and applying to medical school. Btw, sometimes its embarrassing so I don't even bother claiming it. Sorry for my betrayal for pre meds. 🙁
 
most premeds bother me. just smile and laugh you know.

i'm not a premed, but im going to med school.
 
They're so uptight, I mean just relax and work together dude. I've met one chill pre-med and he was gay.
 
I dont hate them, but talking about MED SCHOOL SO MUCH AND CLASSES and their specialty, blah blah blah is pretty annoying. I guess freshmen pre-meds are the worst, half of my class claimed that their pre-med. Im not going to claim a pre med till I pass those weed out classes and applying to medical school. Btw, sometimes its embarrassing so I don't even bother claiming it. Sorry for my betrayal for pre meds. 🙁

I used to listen to these chats in my biology class while my eyes glazed over, :laugh: planning out what medical school they're going to and stuff. Sure it's possible but be realistic.
 
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