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Originally Posted by Clever_Iggy
Some people can't handle the balance. Others can (I guess that's Superman-like). It's good you acknowledged that and didn't dive in over your head. I guess the best advice keenan87 can take is to figure out whether he's able to find balance in his life or not. If he can't, live at home; if he can, find it and have a great 4-5 years.
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I don't know how many people in this thread are actually aware how demanding the requirements for medical school actually are. It's one thing to say some people can handle it and some people can't when it's something like a business degree or a fine arts program where you don't necessarily need to be the best student in the world to continue. Bio sciences is a totally different monster, and that's not me being an elitist prick, that's the reality of life. I don't care to look up the numbers right now but there are a *lot* of people who apply to medical programs every year and only a very small amount of them actually get accepted. I'm willing to bet money that the ones who don't get accepted are the same ones who take this cavalier attitude towards school and spend half their time partying and working because they rushed out of home the second they graduated from high school.
Listen, I appreciate the fact that you and some others are saying that there's more to life than school, and there is... But there's absolutely no sense in moving out and turning down an opportunity to have everything provided for you when you don't have to. The extracurriculars required for most medical schools to even look at you are enough to constitute a full-time job... What do you think happens when you have to work at the same time just to pay rent?
If it was easy to become a doctor, everyone would do it. Why put extra pressure on yourself for no reason?