My dad wants me to apply elsewhere... help me!

Alix2012
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:17:31 +0000

thanks milkandsugar :]

@sandkmom - I agree it shouldn’t make a difference. Nor do I think most gallatin majors are fluff (although i admit i’ve come across strange ones!) I was trying to counter the point that parents shouldn’t pay for a degree if it won’t lead to a good job

@rainbow - I would like to say not to worry about the whole MD-or-PhD question for a while. One of the reasons i’ve been trying to answer many of your CC is posts is because you remind me a lot of myself at 16. I’m also from LI and did Intel Siemens/LISEF in HS and came to NYU to study Chem/Neurosci and participate in WinS. My parents were initially set against NYU as well - I have a brother at Princeton but I wasn’t Ivy-bound. I haven’t made definite career plans yet but I am considering both an MD and PhD at the moment. I have done research at Cold Spring Harbor, NYU, and Rockefeller, volunteered at NYU Med and will work in NYU Med labs this summer - I can tell you from my limited experience that BOTH careers require you to constantly work with others in teams, and both mean a lot of competition and people working against you - sci research careers are just as competitive, if not more so than medicine (because in medicine there is the immediate goal of helping a patient whereas researchers are always duking it out for grants and such).