What to Consider if You're Considering University — the Big Picture by Bill Morrison

Author:Bill Morrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2014-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

What is Your Plan B?

We have noted elsewhere that only a very small minority of people who express interest in medicine actually get into medical school. (Of those who do get in, almost all graduate, because the entrance standards are so high that no one who gets in is incapable of doing the work.) It must be terribly disappointing to be rejected, especially for those who have been answering “doctor” to the question “what do you want to be when you grow up?” since they were old enough to talk. Some try more than once and do eventually get in. Others go to the kind of offshore medical school that landed that poor American vet $300,000 in hock to the government.

Some will go elsewhere in the medical field, into nursing or medical research, while some will go into other branches of science. Some will choose other fields entirely, and some will simply drop out. The point is that you need a plan B. Given the success rate for medical school applications it would be foolish to put yourself in a situation where you’ve invested two or more years in something that comes crashing down around your ears, leaving you with no idea of what to do next. One solution is to take courses that will be useful in medically related fields. For instance, business courses might help if you want to make a career in the pharmaceutical industry. Perhaps you could become a high school science teacher. In any case, don’t leave yourself open to disaster like a deer caught in headlights. Plan for contingencies.

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