What will you do if you don't get in?

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Get a job and move forward. No sense in looking back.
 
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Camy99 said:
My plans A-X are doctor. Y is author, Z is songwriter. Which are both chance professions... A-X better work!
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Haha, I definitely agree. Replace author with lead guitar player and songwriter with club/house music producer and you have my scenario.

I've pretty much only heavily had interest in two things over the last few years and that's medicine and music. The odds of me being successful in the later are not too high...then again the odds of getting into medical school aren't very high either...uh oh.
 
Hmmm maybe teach? I'll still have my EMT cert so I can do that for a little, re-apply, pron star, be a dentist, invent something anyone could have thought of, but it is incredibly practical.

Actually, why the hell am I even a pre-med...
 
Physical Therapy program or become a bad ass nutritionist or as a last resort.....

1. High paid Gigolo/male stripper(I've been told I'm pretty handsome, no not just by my mom ok)

2. A vigilante killing child prostituting pimps in South-east asia (just saw a messed up documentary the other month, hey they could write a book about me one day)

3. Taco stand ( I make some damn good carne asada tacos)
 
Drogo said:
Physical Therapy program or become a bad ass nutritionist or as a last resort.....

1. High paid Gigolo/male stripper(I've been told I'm pretty handsome, no not just by my mom ok)

2. A vigilante killing child prostituting pimps in South-east asia (just saw a messed up documentary the other month, hey they could write a book about me one day)

3. Taco stand ( I make some damn good carne asada tacos)
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Your grandma?
 
Settle for dentistry of course, ridiculous earning potential while still holding some prestige sounds great to me!
 
Research for a year!

Public health policy!

Substitute teaching!

Anything interesting, really.
 
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First post, yes.

My initial interest was pharmacy, but after some research and what-not I really am sticking with the pre-med track. So I guess pharmacy is plan-b, or get incredibly lucky and become a insanely famous singer. Something like that.
I'm sure everyone will do great and achieve their dreams of becoming a physician, we all have the potential.
 
Kaustikos said:
Well, you've got Plan A, B, C, D...I think you're good. :laugh: Chin up, though
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Problem though is that these options are somewhat on the same level, kind of leaving little room for one happening over the other. Basically there is significant amount of chace of some sort of domino effect where not having one thing working out effecting the outcome of the other and so on....

But yeah, chin up I guess...but sometimes it is just difficult.
 
ILikeDrugs said:
Professional craps and blackjack player. :cool:




Not funny considering this is a real problem in India and other Asian countries. :thumbdown:
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Obesity, drug abuse, adultery, poverty, assault, and terrorism are also real problems, but they are common themes in stand up comedy. I feel no guilt laughing at such jokes.
 
aSagacious said:
^
:laugh: I love that being an oriental call-girl comes before investment banking.
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Drogo said:
Physical Therapy program or become a bad ass nutritionist or as a last resort.....

1. High paid Gigolo/male stripper(I've been told I'm pretty handsome, no not just by my mom ok)

2. A vigilante killing child prostituting pimps in South-east asia (just saw a messed up documentary the other month, hey they could write a book about me one day)

3. Taco stand ( I make some damn good carne asada tacos)
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There's always money in the banana stand.
 
ponyo said:
I was going to lament that I can't be a trophy wife since I'm Asian, but then I remembered Wendi Murdoch
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I'll bet Murdoch is too much man for just ONE Asian Wife to handle (and bodyguard against pies).
 
Suicide

But on a more SERIOUS note here are my plans in case med school does not work out

1. Another health care profession, pharmacy or optometry school.
2. Teaching (at the high school level maybe)
3. Research and maybe make my living as a scientist


Ya may add more things to the list.
 
A. Become a CLS or a Physician's Assistant, or a Paramedic or something along those lines.
B. Research?
C. Become a ethnomusicologist. Since I was a music minor (I am damn good pianist, if I say so myself), I'll just go back to the school I graduated from and just take the classes I need to get my BA in music history. Then on to Grad school.
D. Teach...
E. Just DIE.
 
Heard Amsterdam's Red Light District is hiring..
 
V5RED said:
Obesity, drug abuse, adultery, poverty, assault, and terrorism are also real problems, but they are common themes in stand up comedy. I feel no guilt laughing at such jokes.
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Exactly.
 
If there were no other option I'd go the physical therapy route,
or go teach English in japan for 5 years and come back and be a Japanese teacher.
 
I would catch up on my missed teens and twenties. Learning social interactions, talking with people, throwing a party, going out, having dinner with someone, go to a bar, got to a nice restaurant, acquire meaningful friendships, etc.
 
Move to Europe and benefit from their socialist system.
 
Reapply next year and if that didn't work I would go nursing school. And then have lots of babies.
 
Deathstar said:
Move to Europe and benefit from their socialist system.
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Do you guys really have no clue what is going on around the world?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2004550/Greece-riots-2011-A-crisis-tear-Europe-apart.html

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/in-ireland-the-high-cost-of-austerity/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...tory-menaces-eastern-states-berglof-says.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...al-crisis-Icelands-dreams-go-up-in-smoke.html

Yep Europe is really gonna help you...

It's frightening how many people here still act like everything is fine and the country will magically recover. I'm not trying to scare people but open your eyes, it's gonna be a rough rough future.
 
Neuroguy887 said:
It's frightening how many people here still act like everything is fine and the country will magically recover. I'm not trying to scare people but open your eyes, it's gonna be a rough rough future.
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I was going to reply to this with a serious response, but I decided in the end that it would be fruitless. Instead, I will simply offer my humble advice "stop watching the news, it's sensationalism at it's best (worst?)."
 
aSagacious said:
I was going to reply to this with a serious response, but I decided in the end that it would be fruitless. Instead, I will simply offer my humble advice "stop watching the news, it's sensationalism at it's best (worst?)."
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Sure, have fun in greece buddy. It's all sensationalism right?
 
Neuroguy887 said:
Sure, have fun in greece buddy. It's all sensationalism right?
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Perhaps you and I are arguing different points. I am not disagreeing that a select number of European entities are in shambles, I thought you were equating the EU recession with the current status of the US economy.
 
Things I've considered (with various levels of seriousness):

1. Reapply
2. PA or nursing school
3. Culinary school
4. Marry rich!!
 
MD->DO->foreign->research/masters, then way later reapply to MD or DO-> nothing else really.
 
It'd get a PhD, do research and then talk **** about doctors to premeds the rest of my life.
 
I'll join the adcoms and notoriously have a high rejection rate, all to satisfy my own bitterness.
 
I'll start my own meth lab and make sub-par meth (which as a Chem major wouldn't be too hard)

>> There was a Chem professor in California who got caught making meth in the university labs. Apparently it was such high quality, they became suspicious and traced it back to him. <<
 
ZapadniyRus said:
I'll start my own meth lab and make sub-par meth (which as a Chem major wouldn't be too hard)

>> There was a Chem professor in California who got caught making meth in the university labs. Apparently it was such high quality, they became suspicious and traced it back to him. <<
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Hmmm, inspired by Breaking Bad perhaps? :laugh:
 
If I don't get in this cycle, the first thing I will do is work on my app and reapply next time. If we are talking long term back up plans in case I don't get in ever, here they are, in no particular order or preference:

1) Write a novel, or a bunch...and become famous
2) Be a stay at home mom and raise five kids
3) PA school
4) Get a masters in something and go into research
5) Flip houses, or get into something in the real estate business
6) Make $25,000 a month just filling out surveys from my home computer!
7) Become a professional caricature artist
8) Go into psychology or anthropology, which is what I wanted to do before this idea of med school ever entered into my head.
 
Monocles said:
Marry someone rich and become an archaeologist! :laugh:
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Will it be awkward to marry a rich girl and make her work while you stay at home and drag race in the Mercedes AMG S63.
 
I'll just live in my parent's house till am 40, then maybe i will have an epiphany of some sort
doc44ever said:
Will it be awkward to marry a rich girl and make her work while you stay at home and drag race in the Mercedes AMG S63.
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why would it be awkward
 
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