Quitting Masters Program?

[lrig]

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My first post and I need some help!

I am currently enrolled in a Masters program for chemistry and I have found that this is definitely the wrong path for me. I would be done by the Spring of 2014, but I am absolutely miserable. I am in good academic standing and have a 1st author paper submitted for peer review.

I just feel like my time would be better spent gaining more clinical experience and not where I am at now. I cannot obtain an outside job currently and it is difficult to get away to gain any shadowing experience.

Any advice would help. I don't want it to look like I am just giving up and harm my chances for admission. I can do it, but it will suck the life out of me in the process.

 

[TriagePreMed]

You'll have to suck it up so you don't seem a quiter.

 

[lrig]

I have contacted a few schools, and they seem to have the mindset that as long as I have a good reason and the rest of my application is solid, that it won't matter. I just can't tell how heavily they would actually weigh my decision to quit.

I have thought about this for months, but it has gotten to the point now that I don't know if it's worth my sanity.

 

[Goro]

I think that if your packet is sound, that iyou'll get interviews, and then it will be on you to convince the AdComs that you won't bail on Medicine like you did on your MS program.

We do realize that people make wrong career paths, so don't think you're in the auto-reject pile just yet.

So quit fussing and start applying.

The only rationale to saty and get the MS is that you're more marketable if Medicine doesn't work out for you.

I have contacted a few schools, and they seem to have the mindset that as long as I have a good reason and the rest of my application is solid, that it won't matter. I just can't tell how heavily they would actually weigh my decision to quit.

I have thought about this for months, but it has gotten to the point now that I don't know if it's worth my sanity.

 

[TriagePreMed]

I have contacted a few schools, and they seem to have the mindset that as long as I have a good reason and the rest of my application is solid, that it won't matter. I just can't tell how heavily they would actually weigh my decision to quit.

I have thought about this for months, but it has gotten to the point now that I don't know if it's worth my sanity.

So you have the answer and come here for what?

 

[lrig]

So you have the answer and come here for what?

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