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I wouldn't say that. SDN is quite popular, many SDN'ers don't become doctors. You just don't see them often because they either don't stick around or don't post regularly.Astra118 said:Unfortunately, the type of people who don't become doctors aren't the ones who browse SDN
That's not really the point. Remove the data and the article still addresses a problem that newly minted college grads are facing.Lawper said:Yahoo unfortunately has some serious issues with their accounts being hacked and data stolen. The business is doing poorly and its upcoming takeover by Verizon is thrown into question because of Yahoo's terrible management. I don't think it's a good source at all, even though Yahoo Finance was pretty good back in the old days.
That's not really the point. Remove the data and the article still addresses a problem that newly minted college grads are facing.
yeah yahoo has basically gained some kind of "living-dead" status as far as im concerned. its a pitty bc, like you said, it wasn't terrible back in the day. it was my family's homepage on our computer for like 5 years!Yahoo unfortunately has some serious issues with their accounts being hacked and data stolen. The business is doing poorly and its upcoming takeover by Verizon is thrown into question because of Yahoo's terrible management. I don't think it's a good source at all, even though Yahoo Finance was pretty good back in the old days.
EDIT: here's the original article from CNBC
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/15/why-college-grads-cant-find-jobs-commentary.html
yeah yahoo has basically gained some kind of "living-dead" status as far as im concerned. its a pitty bc, like you said, it wasn't terrible back in the day. it was my family's homepage on our computer for like 5 years!
The fact remains that >55% of all people who apply to medical school don't get in. When you consider those who are pre-med and never take the MCAT or who take the MCAT and do so poorly that they don't bother applying, the proportion of pre-meds who don't get in skyrockets. Even getting accepted to medical school is no guarantee of being a doc as there is a small proportion who wash out for one reason or another (sometimes life throws you a curveball -- through no fault of your own-- and plans have to change).
What could you do if medicine was not in the cards?
Getting a very high GPA is a huge concern for premeds. Getting a very high GPA is a lot harder in most or all of the great fallback options like engineering. That's one of my biggest criticisms of this entire process, being premed can make it risky to try and have a good Plan B, or even to explore unfamiliar topics outside the bio comfort zone.What could you do if medicine was not in the cards?
hahaha if you don't, i will! thats a hilarious ideaYahoo was really the first internet 'super site" if you will. Yet, even with its "living-dead" status, which it has for several years already, it is near the top, of web pages visited per day. Yet, they never seemed to be able to take all those eyeballs and turned into revenue and profit. However, many highly successful PC technology and internet companies reach some zenith and, like new movie stars and hot rookie ball players, burn out and fall in the "where are they now" column. Having been in and around PCs, networking, and internet starting in 1982-83, I have watched many a company vanish quickly. I have often thought if I ever put up a Halloween graveyard, I would make the tombstones read with the names of dead technology companies.
BTW, and completely trivial of course, I used to love watching the Simpsons Halloween shows as their opening was an erie sweep into the town cemetery sweeping down to the tombstones. Each year they would have names of some "dead" category of things. One year it was all the New York area department stores closed, reminding me far too much of my youth
@Goro EJ Korvettes, Gimbels, A&S, Kresges, Woolworth, Gwirtz,
Getting a very high GPA is a huge concern for premeds. Getting a very high GPA is a lot harder in most or all of the great fallback options like engineering. That's one of my biggest criticisms of this entire process, being premed can make it risky to try and have a good Plan B, or even to explore unfamiliar topics outside the bio comfort zone.
Similarly, according to the AAMC grids there are thousands of people every year that are almost done with straight As in their major only to find out the MCAT is insurmountable. Its really seems like trying to play this game sets a lot of people up to be miserable with their bio/psych degrees, with no interest in grad school and no good options with their bachelors.
Not that I have any solutions to propose. Just seems to me that many premeds will not become doctors and will be worse off for having spent 3-4 years trying.
I prefer the ESPN version.fantasy football is a major reason yahoo is still around. Also, their acquisition of Tumblr.