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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be honest, medical school is really really expensive and time consuming.  If this is not her thing, switch early to other majors.  [b]Being weeded out is really a blessing, saved the family a lot of money.[/b]  [/quote]

A golden nugget of truth!
I am a physician and met my wife in med school. We both had many undergrad peers who were weeded out and ended up in great fields that were right for them! Most saw what our 20s were and were quite grateful they were weeded out or changed their minds in time to find something better for them. While it is expensive, it was quite feasible for each of us to pay back full loans in 15 years and send all 3 kids to private k-12. It pays very well. However, it is 100% a bad decision for those who do not truly enjoy the meticulous process of studying science and committing many different biological and chemical processes to memory not only undergrad but for the first two years of med school, then launching into clinical rotations for the last 2 years being able to assimilate and apply the knowledge quickly to patients, all while working 80 hrs a week for most of the last 2 years of med school and 3-5 years of residency. It is brutal and only worth it if you love science and the human body to an extreme degree. In hindsight I would not change a thing, but the during was hard. We had almost all A's at top schools and still found it very hard work. [/quote]

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