How to answer when schools ask for future plans... but don't know...

[hexane19]

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So some secondaries ask what my future plans will be for the fall.
I am not sure what they will be yet. Should I just give them a rough guess as to what I'll be doing?

 

[WedgeDawg]

I would think that should be perfectly fine.

 

[GiveMeThatMD]

Basically, yeah. You'll hear, "I couldn't imagine doing anything else", but that's what they want to know. If med school were out of the picture, what would the next course of action be?

 

[mk04447]

Don't be a *****. Tell them your biggest vision. They know things change, but people don't. You've either got big plans for the diploma or you're a waste of time.

 

[Goro]

Very simple: MAKE future plans.

So some secondaries ask what my future plans will be for the fall.
I am not sure what they will be yet. Should I just give them a rough guess as to what I'll be doing?

 

[mk04447]

Very simple: MAKE future plans.

LOL. Do they encourage you to hold their hands?

 

[SmurfingReviews]

Very simple: MAKE future plans.

I leled at this comment.

Anyways, make some future plans. Whether it be continuing the activities that you are currently doing - as you prep to get into medical school volunteering/shadowing/research, or maybe it's your hobbies like playing sports for a team, performing arts, etc - or maybe making travel arrangements for XYZ reasons, you want to make sure you can answer this question.

I think that if you say you don't have any future plans, this may hint to the interviewer that as a future medical student, you are not going to be continuously engaged in activities and may come off as I just did the things that I stated on my app just to say that I did to get into medical school.