<p>Mine does. We’ve had the conversation about what he’ll do if he gets a C in organic chem :-)</p>
<p>A C in OChem isn’t the end of the world - I got C’s in both quarters of OChem, and just finishing first year of med school right now. </p>
<p>But yes, the number of people who are “pre-med” shrinks precipitously after the first few years of college. Sometimes ifs classes like Ochem, sometimes its just because they realize that there is more out there than just med school or law school.</p>
<p>my D took a year of Ochem at Reed and she wasnt interested in medicine- she just liked biology.
poor kid.
However I know vets and MDs ( vet school is more competitive), who got through Ochem either cause they audited it first, or they took it in a huge section where many dropped off the curve just cause they stopped going to class ( without dropping the class)</p>
<p>I’m going into creative writing… Probably the furthest thing from med school.</p>
<p>I have a teacher and and English Major - no doctors for our family. We’re also too squeamish for anything involving bodily fluids and needles.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s the kids of us parents who are predominantly pre-med – I think it’s the kids on CC themselves who are pre-med. Or bio-chem engineering. </p>
<p>I think it’s a reflection of the population who is on CC. </p>
<p>My daughter is about as far from pre-med as one could be. A lot of her college friends started out as either engineering majors or pre-med. Almost all have changed their minds.</p>
<p>S1 planning on clinical psych; S2 in engineering.</p>
<p>Orgo–my D got A’s in it as a pure bio (not pre-med) major, then switched to poli sci. She and my H found it to be “fun”…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>mine originally wanted to be a physician , but now is leaning towards becoming a physician assistant…and taking organic chemistry next semester ( and also considering taking it at our local state college this summer to get a head start )</p>
<p>My dentist told me that orgo is what makes or breaks them</p>
<p>S1 has a friend who took Orgo as a first semester freshman and got an A. Does not plan on med school.</p>
<p>I think there are many HS students on CC who want to be premed. Then reality strikes.</p>
<p>I wish.</p>
<p>I have an economist (working) and two music majors (in school).</p>
<p>My youngest is a med tech major. Her school has a track for pre-med within her program and she is taking that.
She <em>thinks</em> she might want to be a pathologist and run the lab.<br>
Organic and calculus based physics are next semester. I am not holding my breath, medical technology is a great field.</p>
<p>D1 - classic Undecided, but leans toward art & Japanese; definitely no med school.</p>
<p>D2 - still in high school, interested in psychology/psychiatry, so <em>maybe</em> med school…but a few years ago she was certain she wanted to be an archaeologist, so I think the jury is still out on her educational path. I think she’d be a great lawyer; she sure can argue me into a corner.</p>
<p>Neither of my sons ever were on track for medical school.</p>
<p>Younger S, 21, is on track to be a starving artist.</p>
<p>Older S, 25, is a starving artist.</p>
<p>LOL, NSM! Literally.</p>
<p>If I had it to do now, I wouldn’t do it over again. I think compared to 35 years ago kids see there is a big wide world out there, and medicine though honorable and reasonably lucrative is not what it once was.</p>
<p>Although people think about medicine because they like science, want to help people, etc…In fact, most doctors are very determined and do not like to be told what to do or think. This is in direct conflict with so much of modern medicine, hard to imagine that it holds the same appeal. You no longer need an MD to be a prominent researcher, either.</p>
<p>My kids 0/2 so far, and the last one is not nearly a determined enough student. They don’t want their dad’s profession, either…</p>
<p>as a rule of thumb, approx 25-35% of Frosh matriculants at many colleges (more Unis than LACs) are premed (definitely on the higher side for Hopkins). We attended an info session at at mid-sized Uni and they indicated that over 50% of the matriculants were premed, prelaw or prebiz.</p>
<p>“I don’t think it’s the kids of us parents who are predominantly pre-med – I think it’s the kids on CC themselves who are pre-med.”</p>
<p>I’ve always suspected these were two, very different populations!</p>
<p>Not my son, who will enter college in the fall. Is a big picture guy who doesn’t love working with his hands. He thinks constitutional law and international relations are interesting and loves playing complex games of strategy. He’s more likely to be the GM of a professional sports team, an international mediator or a political campaign manager than a doctor. My second kid, who is not ready for CC yet, is a sophomore. Biology is her favorite subject followed by chemistry. She loves working with kids and has had a very serious, potential degenerative condition that good medical work (and educated, aggressive parents) solved for her. So, she might like working as some kind of pediatric specialist. (Or who knows, a fashion designer or a personal shopper).</p>
<p>One of mine entered university undecided, maybe wanted to be a sports coach & HS teacher, maybe a PT, by the time she picked a major- bio, as the most interesting of her GE areas- and then i anatomy got to do cadaver work, hold a digestive system, hold a brain, etc, she was sold, she is now pre-med because she wants to know more about the body and how it works, because she likes knowing.</p>
<p>Ochem was B+ in the class and A in the lecture, you would think that would be good, but her GPA with never less than a B and many many As, is a lowly 3.6, low enough that she HOPES to get in somewhere…who knew?! But she sincerely found this passion late and actually seems to be interested in rural med, as she grew up a very rural and is not so impressed with living in the big city!</p>