<p>I am a gamer as well as a good student in high school, but I just want to know if anyone plays their video games in college and also if they do how many of them are pre-med students. Also, can pre-med students play video games in their spare time with all of the commotion of being a pre-med student in their heads?</p>
<p>Sure, it’s all about delegation. A little of this, a little of that.</p>
<p>Just make sure no one catches you - if they do, you’ll be blacklisted at all US medical schools and then its off to the Caribbean for you…</p>
<p>I hear asian medical schools look favorably at an ec known as “gold farming.” :D</p>
<p>Nope. No video games for you suckaaaaaa!!!</p>
<p>Pre med isn’t that bad. It isn’t easy, but there are more difficult things you could be doing as an undergrad.</p>
<p>To answer your question, unless you’re playing 8 hours of WoW a day, I’m sure you’ll be fine balancing video games and school work. Lots of kids in college play video games. It’s more games like Halo and Mario Kart where you play with friends, but it’s not like all those XBoxes adn Wiis get thrown in the trash.</p>
<p>I’d say it depends on how much time you normally allot to video gaming. </p>
<p>You are going to need to have a well rounded resume with ECs that are the normal college variety and the medically related ones like shadowing Docs, volunteering at clinics/ERs, doing research etc. These all need to be bona fied ECs that will require a serious time commitment, not token amounts. Then the time required for these ECs will need to be balanced with your academics. This requires good organizational and time management skills.</p>
<p>If you are the type of gamer that plays for hours and hours a day and all weekends, you are going to have to realign your priorities because gaming is not considered an acceptable EC activity. If you are an occasional player (like the average college student) I’d say you are alright.</p>
<p>sure you can play video games, just in limited amounts. My friends and I played supersmash bros on n64 almost daily for a couple of months. It didn’t affect my good GPA at all. You just need to know when to stop and study. Just like others said, balancing your free time, studying, ec’s is critical.</p>
<p>I never heard about any restrictions in regard to games or whatever for pre-meds. It is college, not prison.</p>
<p>If you’re like the few people I know who describe themselves as “gamers”…you probably could have done something really productive with all the time you’ve spent playing videogames…like learned a foreign language.</p>
<p>It’s about priorities, and in no simpler terms, video games are diversions. Same as parties, booze and stamp collecting…lord knows I love a good party, and am a fan of the drink (never did get into stamp collecting though), but I also knew when to say “sorry, not tonight”.</p>
<p>NO, but you can go to parties…</p>
<p>Everybody knows that rule 165 of the Official Pre-Med Handbook forbids video gaming of any sort. If medical school adcoms find out that you’ve even looked at a video game during your college years, you’ll be blacklisted forever.</p>
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<p>lawl double standard</p>
<p>Icarus and shades are right, there is a blacklist. But there are ways of hiding your activity.</p>
<p>If you play in tournaments or in public, your chances of getting caught are higher, but even so med schools don’t regularly check up on gaming websites with tournament results and stuff. Still, it’s safest to keep the gaming to within your dorm room or something.</p>
<p>Also, make sure that if you play online, your username/gamertag/ID is not personally identifiable in any way.</p>
<p>Finally, if you do get caught, tell them that you were only doing so to improve hand eye coordination for your future career in surgery. Try and cite research papers to support this. It’s a long shot, but at least it’ll give you a fighting chance.</p>
<p>Not that I’ve tried any of this. As a law abiding premed student, I don’t even think about video games.</p>
<p>Good luck, and good gaming.</p>
<p>Nice one goldshadow. The detail you put into your post almost got me fooled. Almost :p</p>
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<p>^^^ its true going to parties is WAY MORE productive than sitting around playing video games(even though I like to play video games too)…</p>
<p>right…I’m not defending or berating either activity, but your hierarchy is hilarious imo</p>
<p>DEFINITELY! i dont know what i would have done freshman year without my “the sims 2” collection. whew.</p>
<p>a premed student was caught playing counter strike once. He was never seen again</p>
<p>Listen, I do not desire any sort of conflicting opinions here on this topic. I just want a straight answer from pre-med student gamers in this forum. </p>
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<li><p>Is a pre-med student in university allowed to play video games?</p></li>
<li><p>If not, then why?</p></li>
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