My child wants to go to med school but hangs out with blue collar students who are pursuing less academic degrees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the idea of this thread disgusting. OP is angry at children from non-college educated backgrounds for “pulling down” her child. Why is it just okay to assume that someone from a poorer background is non-academic and a leech? They’re at the same institution as your child, so what does that say about the type of college your DC goes to if they are accepting these non-academic poor kids who are apparently drain? You are not better than others for possessing a Bachelors, my lord.

I mean yeah ... the thread is pretty disgusting. Disgusting enough that it is likely a troll post designed to rile people up.

What's disgusting is the lack of transparency and honesty by some people (like yourself) who purport to be woke saviors of the lower class but who are really just liars (to themselves and others). There's hierarchy everywhere and I guarantee everyone reading this buys into it. When you send your kid to a private high school, when you send your kid to a solid public or private school and forgo a full ride to Podunk U., when you don't invite your cleaning people to thanksgiving, you're buying into the natural hierarchy of life. Stop trying to feign innocence to the ways of the world. It isn't cute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the idea of this thread disgusting. OP is angry at children from non-college educated backgrounds for “pulling down” her child. Why is it just okay to assume that someone from a poorer background is non-academic and a leech? They’re at the same institution as your child, so what does that say about the type of college your DC goes to if they are accepting these non-academic poor kids who are apparently drain? You are not better than others for possessing a Bachelors, my lord.

I mean yeah ... the thread is pretty disgusting. Disgusting enough that it is likely a troll post designed to rile people up.

What's disgusting is the lack of transparency and honesty by some people (like yourself) who purport to be woke saviors of the lower class but who are really just liars (to themselves and others). There's hierarchy everywhere and I guarantee everyone reading this buys into it. When you send your kid to a private high school, when you send your kid to a solid public or private school and forgo a full ride to Podunk U., when you don't invite your cleaning people to thanksgiving, you're buying into the natural hierarchy of life. Stop trying to feign innocence to the ways of the world. It isn't cute.

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Just statistically, one really has to be resilient and work pretty damn hard to go from a rough background to a good college. I don’t see how it’s a savior complex to tell OP to get their $hit together and stop blaming random kids for their child’s failure. Also, not everyone on DCUM is rich and has cleaning stuff, some are *shockers* normal people.

[Anonymous]

My neighbor has a blue collar background, was a b student, has mostly blue collar friends and he is a doctor. His patients love him and his practice is busy. Let your child find their own way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the idea of this thread disgusting. OP is angry at children from non-college educated backgrounds for “pulling down” her child. Why is it just okay to assume that someone from a poorer background is non-academic and a leech? They’re at the same institution as your child, so what does that say about the type of college your DC goes to if they are accepting these non-academic poor kids who are apparently drain? You are not better than others for possessing a Bachelors, my lord.

I mean yeah ... the thread is pretty disgusting. Disgusting enough that it is likely a troll post designed to rile people up.

What's disgusting is the lack of transparency and honesty by some people (like yourself) who purport to be woke saviors of the lower class but who are really just liars (to themselves and others). There's hierarchy everywhere and I guarantee everyone reading this buys into it. When you send your kid to a private high school, when you send your kid to a solid public or private school and forgo a full ride to Podunk U., when you don't invite your cleaning people to thanksgiving, you're buying into the natural hierarchy of life. Stop trying to feign innocence to the ways of the world. It isn't cute.

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Just statistically, one really has to be resilient and work pretty damn hard to go from a rough background to a good college. I don’t see how it’s a savior complex to tell OP to get their $hit together and stop blaming random kids for their child’s failure. Also, not everyone on DCUM is rich and has cleaning stuff, some are *shockers* normal people.

No one said live-in staff. And it's appropriate to blame bad influences for being bad influences. I know a girl who ended up at Eastern Carolina after falling in with the wrong crowd. Why are you trying to discourage awareness of the impact those people can have on good people? Maybe seeing OP's story makes someone realize the importance of having quality peers. Take your illogical, impractical, immoral attitude elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It appears the student is a sophomore in college. He is JUST getting started in his science coursework. I would suggest he speak to the medical school advisor at his school. They will tell him what courses he needs for med school and the grades required.

This. He will need to step up and start studying hard for those muh harder science classes OP. And, once she does that, he can meet the other students taking the science classes who are more serious about their education.

[Anonymous]

Students from privileged backgrounds still have to study hard and grind for a shot at medical school. They're not going out on Tuesday nights or wasting time playing video games or beer pong. They're in the library studying organic chemistry. Just like the students from working and middle class backgrounds who want to go to medical school. Pre-med - like engineering - is hard work. And everyone understands that by mid-terms in their first semester of college when they go through the weed out classes. And those weed out classes are there for a reason. They are specifically designed to get rid of the students who don't have the smarts or the work ethic to succeed in what are necessarily difficult programs.

If a sophomore doesn't have the discipline or talent it takes to get into medical school, they should change majors quickly. It has nothing to do with friends or class background. It has to do with drive. It's either there or it's not.

[Anonymous]

Lots and lots and lots of kids say they want to be doctors. Then they go to college. They have fun. And get a B in organic chemistry..and then they go to find a different career path. If the path to being a doctor were easy (@nd inexpensive) there would be a million doctors. Geez. It’s not the “people around him.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused- why are there blue collar students at college?

Their backgrounds. No kids whose family members are white collar professionals

Wow.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know a single person with a secure upper middle class to wealthy income who’s as bigoted as OP against poor people. The people who flock here must be truly miserable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused- why are there blue collar students at college?

Their backgrounds. No kids whose family members are white collar professionals

What a crock.

DP.
This is a polite way to refer to those people. They are almost always a bad influence and engage in activities and behaviors that are risky because they have little to lose.

People can be from any background and be a bad influence. Just because their parents are blue collar does not equate risky behaviors. Good lord.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC does not have much exposure to higher level academics. Not at our flagship state school. Getting poor advice. Refusing to change schools or associate with stronger students. Good grades first year. Lots of Bs this year.
To me, he is no better off right now than the stronger students from his HS. I blame the people around him.
Pardon typos please.

Give those kids a job, give them security.
Give them a chance to survive.
There just poor souls in the unemployment line.
My God they're hardly alive!

They’re not a charity case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots and lots of kids say they want to be doctors. Then they go to college. They have fun. And get a B in organic chemistry..and then they go to find a different career path. If the path to being a doctor were easy (@nd inexpensive) there would be a million doctors. Geez. It’s not the “people around him.”

ummm...a B in orgo chem means you made it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He has no shot at med school with Bs. Too late OP

so dramatic! He’s still a sophomore…and besides osteopathic medicine and med school in the Caribbean, there’s post-bac pre-med.

[Anonymous]

Lots of troll posts on these boards, unfortunately. And the trolls tend to be the most prolific posters.

[Anonymous]

He should be a chiropractor or similar. that is his range.