What qualifies someone as a “Non-traditional student”?

[Nontraddoc00081]

What separates a non traditional student from a traditional student?

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[Goro]

Didn't do the "four years in UG as pre-med and then apply to medical school" shtick.

Generally, is older and comes from a non-science background

 

[CricB4Tube]

Traditional students go from high school immediately to college for 4ish years and then immediately to med school (maybe a gap year or two before med school).
Non-trad students may have joined the workforce after high school and went to college later in life, or went to college immediately after high school but didn't pursue medicine for a long time and had a separate career first. People who spent years in the military on active duty are also considered non-traditional.

 

[8YearsLate]

When you are of the same age as your professors or older

When classmates think you are cool because of your older age, complain they can’t relate to their peers and ask for your input on their life decisions because they aren’t close to their parents even if you are the age of their parents!

When the size and volume of textbooks and course content appear far larger since you last went to school

when you recall in your previous attempt at science courses that scientists referred to non-coding regions of DNA as “junk DNA” but now are viewed as the holy grail and integral components of eukaryotic genomes

when you realize Cialis is a life saver for your marriage but students have never heard of it

LMAO let me add some:

-When fellow classmates invite you to the new cool club near campus and you end up discussing investments with the bouncer all night because it's too loud and aura-inducing inside
-When people are showing off pictures of their "fur babies" and you have to pretend you care so you don't look like a sociopath
-When you insult a female colleague for calling you "savage" before she has a chance to explain that it was a compliment for how hard you work (and many other moments of not understanding the jargon)
-When you ask your fellow students, "Aren't you worried about having your face on a dating profile for everyone to see?" because you grew up in the time of Adult Friend Finder and chat rooms, but they just look at you like a sad recluse loser.

I could go on.

You'll know, lol.

 

[lumya]

When I realized I was closer in age to my professors than my classmates 😂 and I’m not even that far off the normal path.

 

[8YearsLate]

That was savage!
😉



a guy in his late 20s, knowing I am married, told me he wanted to ask a girl in our class on a date. I told him “just approach her”.
He had a meltdown. Think spontaneous combustion. He screamed “no way! That’s not the way things are done today, are you crazy?!” and stomped off angrily. I was left sitting there completely baffled.

I actually got publicly shamed and "cancelled" on my school's reddit page because I made a post giving kudos to a guy who I overheard in the school library walk up, politely compliment her, ask her number and if he could take her out. I just basically said, "Hey, whoever you are, that's cool man, don't stop doing that. Keep human interaction alive, people need to feel like more than a swipe! If she doesn't go out with you I will!" These kids basically shamed him as a sex offender for approaching her directly and shamed me for giving him props. Let's just say being a cougar definitely wasn't on my agenda during my post-bacc. I'd have been bored to tears.