Is 26 or 27 too old to start medical school

[voxveritatisetlucis]

Finish when 30 or 31 then have a residency meaning you wouldn’t even start until being a non resident physician until 34 or 35 in which case it is likely to late to start a family, or do other things. Also do 25, 26, 27 year olds look out of place with 22 and 23 year old M1s

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[Riven_1KV]

No.

 

[iforget2]

Definitely not too late at all. I started med school at 26 and had 0 problems getting to know the traditional students. Got married at the end of 2nd year and many of my classmates have gotten married and I can't even count how many of them have had kids starting in med school

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

Why though? Seems most of my high school friends already are having kids, buying houses etc. Wouldn’t 35 and just starting to do that he considered late?

How do they have kids unless they can live on dividends or something?

 

[MaxCycle42]

Not even close. If anything else, you'll be the more mature person in the group of 22/23 years olds. Both your thought process and view on life is much better, in my opinion. I'm going to be 27 when matriculating this August. So being 26/27 isn't a bad thing at all. But first, you need to stop comparing yourself to others. You do you. Who cares if your friends are getting married/having kids. Your life, your choice. Plan your life, not theirs.

 

[candbgirl]

The average age of med school matriculates was 24 a few years ago(so not 22-23). It’s probably a bit higher now. You don’t have to wait to finish everything before getting married or having kids. You might want to wait to buy a house u til you finish residency so you know where you are landing, but again you don’t have to. There is a way to do about anything .

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

True but at 25, 26, 27 don’t you start to lose energy, become a bit more forgetful, less motivation than when you’re young. Start to lose nw1 hairline . Get a few gray follicles.
In other words, don’t you start to “show your age”

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

Nietzsche was a fully tenured philology Professor at like 24, Marx wrote Paris manuscripts at 26, Wittgenstein wrote Tractatus at 30 etc.

 

[DO2015CA]

You can’t get married and have kids throughout your training

 

[LizzyM]

The mother of 10 kids is starting a pediatric residency in Boca Raton this summer. She had three babies, twins and a singleton, while in medical school.

‘The Rabbi Said It Was OK’: Hasidic Mother of 10 Becomes Doctor (Published 2021)

An ultra-Orthodox mother navigated strict cultural norms to become one of the few Hasidic female doctors in the country.

www.nytimes.com

 

[voxveritatisetlucis]

You can’t get married and have kids throughout your training

From my reading on this forum residents work schedule would mean being an absentee father if having kids in medical school. So it would be tough. I always pictured starting to teach them greek and Latin from young age, coaching their teams, road trips etc. Pretty sure 34-35 is approaching upper limit on fatherhood so I guess it would either have to be residency or nothing if starting med school that late.

 

[HouseJC]

No, I'm 29 and will be starting M1 in a few months. Age is just a number; don't let it define who you are, your mindset etc. If you start comparing yourself to others, this process might drive you nuts and make you dislike medical school. Rather, see it as a collaborative process and think about how your extra life experience and mature thinking process can contribute towards the overall class community and improve dynamics 🙂

 

[Goro]

Finish when 30 or 31 then have a residency meaning you wouldn’t even start until being a non resident physician until 34 or 35 in which case it is likely to late to start a family, or do other things. Also do 25, 26, 27 year olds look out of place with 22 and 23 year old M1s

Some of my all-time best students have been in their 30s and 40s period I graduated a terrific one at age 50 a few years ago, and she is now and attending.

Of course, in your case, given your criminal behavior, There is no amount of forgivable distance between your infractions and the ability to get into medical school

 

[GoPenguinsGo]

If you're not an attending by 14 years old like Doogie Howser, you're not fit to be a doctor.

Also, if you can't even bench-press atleast 5x your bodyweight, just stop. Your medical career is over. Everyone knows doctors got mad pec muscles yo.

/s

 

[gonnif]

Nietzsche was a fully tenured philology Professor at like 24, Marx wrote Paris manuscripts at 26, Wittgenstein wrote Tractatus at 30 etc.

and when Mozart was my age he had been dead for 35 years. BFD....

 

[gonnif]

-August 2019, NPR had a story about a former auto mechanic who graduated medical school at age 47 (yes, forty-seven)
-The former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the AMA, Rebecca Patchin MD, was a nurse for 10 years and did not start medical school until 35 years of age
-The former president of the AOA and current Dean of the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Karen Nichols, DO, was a lab tech and didnt start medical school until she was about 30.
-The first female African American Dean of any US MD or DO school , Barbara Lee-Ross, was a teacher and single mother when she was accepted to the founding class of the Michigan DO school at age 30, She is also Diana Ross's sister
-I have worked with hundreds of students in their 30s, 40s, and even 50s, who successfully apply and complete medical school

 

[LizzyM]

From my reading on this forum residents work schedule would mean being an absentee father if having kids in medical school. So it would be tough. I always pictured starting to teach them greek and Latin from young age, coaching their teams, road trips etc. Pretty sure 34-35 is approaching upper limit on fatherhood so I guess it would either have to be residency or nothing if starting med school that late.

Mr. M fathered children at 38 and 40. Still had the stamina for road trips, car pool, teaching them what they needed to know about classic rock, etc.

 

[EdgeTrimmer]

Not even close. If anything else, you'll be the more mature person in the group of 22/23 years olds. Both your thought process and view on life is much better, in my opinion. I'm going to be 27 when matriculating this August. So being 26/27 isn't a bad thing at all. But first, you need to stop comparing yourself to others. You do you. Who cares if your friends are getting married/having kids. Your life, your choice. Plan your life, not theirs.

Age is not always equal to maturity. I know some adcoms see it that way but not everyone. My kid is matriculating at 21.

 

[gyngyn]

Closing.