Confused and Worried still

Cvjn
Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:52:36 +0000

Alright, I had posted here a few months back, and bluedevilmike gave me some great advice and after thinking it over, I’m at a crossroads now. While I don’t have to choose my next semester classes now, I’ll have to choose them by summer.

So, a few weeks back, I was granted admissions to University of Michigan. I had always considered a job in business as I thought that’s my best outlet to travel. I love to travel, and have been doing it all my life (literally).

So, I’m at this crossroads where, I have this feeling that to be really successful in business, I’d have to give up some ethics, and possibly hurt others to have gains for myself. I guess that it never really hit me until now. The money that I could possibly make in business is tempting, but as we all should know, that’s not everything.

I personally love to help people. I’m very interested in medicine, and always have been. My family’s been very science focused, and my family line are all basically chemistry teachers, or doctors of some sorts (Ph’D not MD). This is where I’m a bit stuck.

From what I’ve heard, the classes are hard. In high school, I didn’t really try too hard, and didn’t do too well in my biology, physics, chemistry classes (B average). That landed me at a tier 3 university and thus required me to transfer. Now that I’ve gotten into a great University that has a good premed program, I’m starting to reconsider pre med as something I want to do.

What I’m scared of, is that

1) I won’t get into any good med school because of my GPA / MCAT / all of the above
2) I’m afraid that if I take pre med classes along with business classes, I’ll screw up somehow, and fail to either graduate in 4 years (it’s a huge thing for me, dont’ ask why), or just screw up my GPA, which ruins both chances for a good med school and a good B school.

I know that if I do take those classes, I’ll try as hard as I can. I don’t mind giving up parts of my social time for studying. It’s just that I’m afraid if I’m just naturally bad in Chemistry, Bio, Physics, ect, that I’ll screw up in college, which is something I can’t afford right now.

So basically, I’ve come to realize I have 3 choices

1) Focus on pre med (I’m a sophomore), take MCATs in my Junior year, and hope for the best.
2) Focus on Business, take GMAT when I get out of school, and get a job at some firm that hopefully focuses on travel.
3) Focus on both pre med and business, try for pre med first, and if I don’t get into a good med school, I’ll try my luck at business.

Any ideas?