Good Grad Program as Back Up for Med School?

baktrax
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:32:31 +0000

I would think you would want to go to medical school because you really want to be a doctor. Therefore, if you don’t get into a medical school, I would recommend that you take a year or two off, improve your application, and then apply again.

You really shouldn’t rush into a graduate program because you don’t know what else to do. Do you have any experience (research or otherwise) that would demonstrate to graduate students that you would be successful in grad school?

If you don’t particularly want to be a doctor if you can’t get in right after undergrad, I would recommend you still take a couple years away from school to figure out what you really want to do. You don’t want to forge ahead into a program that is not right for you, only to realize halfway into it that it isn’t where you want to be.