100% of kids who go to West Point and the Naval Academy have jobs waiting for them when they graduate.
At some point, I’m putting the onus on “Jr” to understand what the statistics mean. If 90% of pre-meds at college A get accepted to Med school, surely Jr is not so deluded as to think that he still won’t have to put in the work, get the grades, get the score, or horrors- might even end up in Granada if he’s at the bottom of the “acceptability” range.
Just like kids understand that the jobs waiting for them out of the academies means wearing a uniform, potentially being sent overseas, and dying when the mission they are commanding gets ambushed. Does a HS student smart enough (potentially) to be thinking about Med school really need to be protected from a college’s statistic?
Creek- you don’t like gatekeeping, you think that all pre-meds have the right to try for med school. I respect your position. I respectfully disagree, having no dog in this hunt whatsoever. I think the fetishization of med school among college kids does a real disservice, and diverts thousands of dollars away from actual learning and education into the application process. If every kid who came up dry after applying to 15 med schools had used that money for their own education instead of fees- they’d be much better off. There are no other honorable professions out there? I think the colleges that have strong pre-med advising- even if that means the gate-keeping- are much more transparent than the others about what it takes to get into and STAY in med school.