Originally Posted by Astro14
Originally Posted by slacktide_bitog
Originally Posted by Reddy45
I'd rather see people go heavily into debt to become doctors than for them to pursue pointless degrees like "medical historian" or "diversity studies".
But that's just it. Doctors are the most likely to default on a student loan. More likely than those diversity studies kids
However,
medical schools like to enroll humanities/liberal arts majors.
Got a source for that claim?
Because it's the science majors that are getting accepted.
Medical Schools, the good ones, admit fewer than 5% of applicants.
It's not easy to "enroll". It's even harder to finish. If they're taking liberal arts majors, then those kids have taken all the requisite classes in organic chemistry, physics, and biology, and done research, volunteered at hospitals, and everything else to be competitive.
I don't know what point you're trying to make...but your claim is just plain wrong.
Yes, I know all that. I know that half of all applicants that apply to med school get rejected by every school they apply to, and the average med student has to apply 3 times before getting in anywhere (three application cycles). I meant that the medical schools do prefer liberal arts majors that have taken the prerequisite courses and everything else to be competitive.
I meant to say that everything else being equal, they absolutely would take the liberal arts major over the biology major. Yes, they like liberal arts majors that take the science classes needed for medical school. The idea is that the liberal arts major may be more well-rounded.
These
two links give some insight