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I don't call graduating 2 years a "super fast road." It's only in the US and other western countries that we believe that drinking and partying through college are necessary to gain eventual maturity. From my understanding, people studying overseas are typically more mature than many US college and medical students.
If you think all college is about is drinking and partying, that's a big part of the problem right there. Ugh, millennials.
Amen
I don't. 90% of Americans do.
And how does that affect whether the endeavor is a worthy thing for people to engage in? You get out of college what you put in, and you grow based upon what experiences you are willing to engage in. College is a waste if you let it be, but that time can be a great time of growth and change for you as a person, if used wisely.
College is simply a continuation of your education so you become a more marketable person. The self-reflective growth and personal experiences is a bonus and is subjective to a number of things. I don't like the idea that you should attend university for "the college experience"; this is why you have a bunch of millennials struggling to find a well paying job because they studied english, gender studies, or some other useless "hobby-like" major for the "college experience". I'm planning on staying at home for undergrad, and if anything, should be glad that I will be saving a lot of money that can be applied to medical school or whatever graduate program I choose to persuade. What exactly is the "college experience"? Teaching you to stop being a teenager and learn a sense of responsibility and mature a bit? I'm petrified if the majority of my peers need to live by themselves for four years to learn this.
You think that, but in reality you'll later realize that when you're 18, you're basically an idiot emotionally compared to four years later. And then later, you'll look back on your 22 year old self when you're 26, and think the same damn thing. The time allows for some emotional maturity to develop, and you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone that says they didn't greatly emotionally mature over the time spent in college and beyond. You don't want to go into medical school as someone whose emotional maturity is behind the curve in medical school, because there really isn't much time for it to develop once you're there. Or in residency. Or fellowship So you'll pop out at the age of 30 as a cardiologist with the emotional maturity of a 20 year old, which is embarrassing (and something I've witnessed in a few physicians in the past that spent too much time on getting to their goals and not enough time on developing themselves).
Do you feel like you'd be any different if you'd been home schooled for highschool? I would have been. Think about how your classes and peers and school-related activities have changed you since you were 14, then magnify that several fold, and you're starting to see college.
emotionally and every other way too
I'll get back to y'all at 22 and give a report on how I changed if I do 🙂.
Trust me little dude, you're full-blown potato right now, you just don't know it yet. We all were.
I'll still listen to you, but I can't relate to any of my classmates and consider most of them to be immature in some way or another. I relate more with generation x people and some baby boomers; not your typical high-school student in any way. People think I'm weird for dressing in slacks and tie almost every day for no special reason other than I like to maintain a professional image.
Well, for one, you are weird. Dressing too far up is as great of a sin as dressing too far down. That's like, rule number 3 of fashion. You need to wear the best outfit for the setting, silly goose.
No, like many high schoolers, you're just trying to look different. But instead of bleaching your hair or going goth, you're dressing like a yuppie. Nothing Gen-X about that lol.
He gave it earlier, 1300 / 90th percentile. The negative is the disadvantages of a DO for someone interested in New York residencies and the potentially big maturity gap with peers.
Except for all of the negatives already described in this thread by people who have actually gone to medical school.
So did you use your credits from high school to graduate early from college?
no i didnt end up graduating early. ended up with 35 extra credits or so due to limited overlap with pre-reqs and my major. my grades did contribute to my overall college gpa.
Planning to stay home? Do you mean online school?
What if I just stay in high school for senior year, takes a lot of APs then use them in college and graduate early?
What about pediatric New York residencies?
commute from home to campus
What states would be best to get a residency in? Or institutions I guess I should say. I am also a highschool student finishing my last year.
New york prob
John Hopkins, Ivy League , Mit , NYU ect
What do you mean by best? Like the places that are most competitive and the most people want to go? Or the places that are least competitive and easiest to get a residency in?
Hahah, one of these is not like the others
I don't get the joke.
