<p>wis 75, sorry, you missed my point entirely with your comments: “MiamiDAP- becoming a physician is not the most prestigious thing a person can do with an interest in biology and good academic ability” D. and our family never eve looked for any kind of presitge, not in attending specific school, not in pursuing specific careerr. In case of career, we are looking for the perfect match to personality (not only academic standing, that would be too shallow) and job market. While D’s personality would match well (maybe not as well as to physician careerm but still well) to a career of Mrine Bio, the job market was simply not there. The second aspect was primarily the source of my push towards the Med. School. If it was the opposite, if Mrine Bio proffessionals had better job security than physicians (hard to imagine, but just for the sake of argument), we would have never mention Med. School to our D. She would have been already a Merine Bio person, instead of being a 4th year Med. Student who just discovered going thru Acting Intern rotation that she feels very very good about her chosen field, she absolutely loves it, loves run the team, admitting patients, ordering medications, everything. She never mind Research, done several, just completed big project, wrote manuscript (she is the First author) and while she enjoed the “management” aspect of it (as she was a lead), there is no way under the sun she enjoyed the research as much as she does taking care of the patients (which she actually suspected way back in HS). Dealing with people is what she was born to do, many have noticed this about her. Forget presitge, at least we did many decades ago.</p>