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Just a quick question, mostly out of curiosity: how involved are your parents in your MCAT / pre-med process?
I ask because as a test-prep professional I get *a lot* of parents arranging everything for their kids, but I wonder if I'm seeing a really unrepresentative sample (only the kinds of people who can afford to spend lots of cash on tutoring and who take the time to seek out professional guidance).
It's also kind of weird to me, since I'm from a generation where the idea of having your parents involved in the MCAT process at all would've been mortifyingly embarrassing. I get that things have changed, and I'm curious to hear from college-age folks on a pre-professional path what you think about this trend of parents being more directly involved in organizing the lives of their adult children. If not your parents, are your friends parents really involved? And what do you think?
(mods, if this topic is perhaps a bit too off-topic for the MCAT discussions thread, I'm happy to delete it and move it elsewhere)
I ask because as a test-prep professional I get *a lot* of parents arranging everything for their kids, but I wonder if I'm seeing a really unrepresentative sample (only the kinds of people who can afford to spend lots of cash on tutoring and who take the time to seek out professional guidance).
It's also kind of weird to me, since I'm from a generation where the idea of having your parents involved in the MCAT process at all would've been mortifyingly embarrassing. I get that things have changed, and I'm curious to hear from college-age folks on a pre-professional path what you think about this trend of parents being more directly involved in organizing the lives of their adult children. If not your parents, are your friends parents really involved? And what do you think?
(mods, if this topic is perhaps a bit too off-topic for the MCAT discussions thread, I'm happy to delete it and move it elsewhere)