<p>I don’t think I would bother with the conversation at all. You are in high school, you are a long way from applying to med school.</p>
<p>You can be a medical student with any major, so don’t stress a major, perhaps just enter university undeclared. Explore breadth requirements, see what interests you.</p>
<p>Along the way you can still investigate medicine, away from annoying gunner premeds and pre-med clubs, by volunteering at a hospital, at an old folks home, at a homeless shelter and also shadow doctors, all sorts of doctors. Don’t worry about what some smarty pants show off high school senior tells you about medicine, if you think you might be interested, or not but want to rule it out, go see it in person, see what happens. Then you can have that conversation with Mom and you can tell her 4 years from now that you have investigated the profession and it is not for you. med school is 4 long hard years, residency and fellowships is 3-11 years of working hard of working long hard hours for low pay. Do not do this to please your parents.</p>
<p>You might review threads on CC pre-meds</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1486654-premed-resources-thread-start-here-first.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/1486654-premed-resources-thread-start-here-first.html</a></p>
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