Posted by alexandra_k on February 8, 2014, at 0:22:56
In reply to Re: oops, i did it again, posted by alexandra_k on February 8, 2014, at 0:10:51
i think there is a weird blend here...
bio-med is notorious... for there being around 1,500 students who mostly all start out the year intending on applying for medicine.
the first semester is full of... around half of those people coming to terms with the fact that they are not viable candidates. they aren't sufficiently prepared (in most instances that it is) and / or they aren't sufficiently motivated (in some instances this is it) to put in the amount of work that is required to pull A's in their papers. Which is what they need.
It is about now that people's blogs start shifting from 'I'm gonna be a doctor!' to 'I'm finding work-life balance!'.
Of those 700 or so candidates who are viable... More than half still don't get a place. Probably around... 1/3 are fairly obviously lab rat rather than people contact kinda people, though... So...
So it is hard to say.
I think that genuinely medical admissions would like to have greater diversity in the medical intake. The problem is that you can only waive / loosen requirements in the math / chemistry / physics direction so far before... You are simply setting people up to fail medicine. Because they can't keep up. They simply aren't capable of meeting the competency standards (once you are in grades don't matter).
So...
I think they would like to have me. I think there are a bunch of people rooting for me. Perhaps the entire philosophy department. Or close... Other people, too. But I also think that there are a bunch of people who don't want it to be a viable option for me. Because it makes them feel like they have dropped the ball somewhat on precisely the same opportunity being available to them. Or because of... Whatever whatever... Their own insecurites. Their own investment into their offspring. Whatever. I think there are a bunch of people who don't like the idea that the future generation of doctors might largely be comprised of rich kids with next to no genuine life experience. I think there are a bunch of people who would genuinely like to see diversity.
But currently I am experiencing a fatal clash between prepratory chemistry and prepratory physics. Which suggests that... Uh... What, exactly? You can't prepare for both at the same time? ffs.... I swear... Some things occur just to try my patience...
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