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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Hopkins medical school tuition is $62,000 per year. I don’t know where this poster got their numbers.

I think PP meant $200K.

Well, my kid is M3 (2.5 years) and we have spent more than 200k already (230 or so at this point). We expect to spend 350k by the time kid graduates. Public instate med school.

I feel like we see this question, or some cousin to it, every week.

I work at a med school (although I'm not in admissions). Bottom line: 1) You need to get the prerequisite science classes done, and with high grades; and 2) gain a strong facility with the subjects tested on the MCAT (yes physics is on there in addition to the other sciences). This is a hell of a lot easier to accomplish with a science major, but not impossible to do with a major in anything else. As others have mentioned, you need a strong overall GPA as well (I guess that's obvious?); majoring in something that interests you certainly helps with that; although I think the general consensus that a high gpa is "easier" in the humanities is not necessarily true -- as a pp pointed out, there are all of those papers to write .. and there actually are some things that are harder to understand than organic chem (I'm looking at you Immanuel Kant).

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

This is a top 10 of 2023 dumb post. Medical school is way more than stated. Anyone really thinking of medical school has no interest in pharmacy or vet school or actuarial sciences. Medical school is not about the money. People go in knowing the money and it is nice but it is a calling. Money is great and maybe would not do it for free but that is not the motivation. It is not just another job that you can compare to another. Yes you do want to live but not sure how medical school and training impacts that. Sure it takes time -- you also have the rest of your life.

My friend did nursing as an undergraduate and applied to med school after. She is a great doctor now and is beloved by her staff.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Hopkins medical school tuition is $62,000 per year. I don’t know where this poster got their numbers.

I think PP meant $200K.

Molecular biology.

Anonymous wrote:How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Hopkins medical school tuition is $62,000 per year. I don’t know where this poster got their numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine who is a chem professor said that students who major in humanities with a strong core of science classes and good grades have an edge in med school admissions, because they stand out as good thinkers and good writers who are also good at science but not only science.

The real answer is that humanities grade way way easier

Although this assertion gets thrown around a lot, it’s not necessarily true. An academic essay, for example, requires a lot of research and citations not to mention that their grading can more subjective than a math test. Just because humanities require a different skill set doesn’t make it an easy A.

Anonymous wrote:A friend of mine who is a chem professor said that students who major in humanities with a strong core of science classes and good grades have an edge in med school admissions, because they stand out as good thinkers and good writers who are also good at science but not only science.

The real answer is that humanities grade way way easier

How much money do you have?
Med school (John Hopkins) is $20k
There are other ways to make money. Do it if you really want to. Explore other options like pharmacy or veterinary school.
I bet that you can make the same amount of money in other professions too. Do not do it if you are only interested in money.
There is actuarial sciences that might interest you.

If this is still what you want, but do not have a rich daddy, then get a secondary certification that would allow you to maintain a nicer pay part time job, like hair dresser or pharmacy technician. To become a dr is about 10 years of study. You do want to live as well

Biochem will likely help with MCAT.

This is one of those questions that if you ask 100 people, you will get 101 answers. Do what interests you and keep an eye on premed requirements.

A friend of mine who is a chem professor said that students who major in humanities with a strong core of science classes and good grades have an edge in med school admissions, because they stand out as good thinkers and good writers who are also good at science but not only science.

I majored in Psychology and went to med school. There are core requirements for med school that you need to meet but after that, you should focus on things that interest you and that can bolster your GPA-which needs to be sky high in order to have a shot at admission these days!

https://www.kaptest.com/study/mcat/medical-school-requirements-prerequisites

Yes, I know you can technically major in anything, but which major offers the best preparation for the material actually taught in med school? Chemistry? Biology? In other words, which would result in a med student saying they're glad they focused on that in undergrad bc they understand it a lot better than some of their peers who did not major in it? For example, if majoring in math or engineering you're typically better off if you've taken 2 years of AP Calculus in HS. This question is for those in the know and not those simply speculating, please.