<p>^ Some examples where people DS hang around ended up doing after graduation: One becomes a teacher (not the kind of “temporary teacher” who just wants to do “teach for America” and use it as a capital for shooting something bigger.) His parents own their own successful business.
Two of them whose parents were physicians but both of them did not choose the medicine. One started a church-affiliated charity organization while attended a law school on the side. Actually he got into a T14 law school (likely a top 5 one) but decided not to go because he wanted to start that charity organization (I think it was originally for homeless.) Money is not an issue here as his parent is physician.
The other, who had actually completed most of premed classes with good scores before stopping being a premed, attended Berkeley School of Music for a short time (btw, he had performed at Carnegie Hall twice before college.) He is now a member of a successful band.</p>
<p>Two of the students he was occasionally with (as they were in the same suite for many years): one in Harvard Law first and now work in some quite rural state. The other in a med school in his state (just graduated I think.) They never participated the same club activities but they were occasionally playing video games together. DS kind of said the other premed (who is a more main stream premed than DS) would once in a while feed some essential premed related info to him otherwise he would be even more “out of touch” with the “main stream” premed crowd. It was somewhat funny that the parent of that premed’s friend kind of half-jokingly said to us (when we met during the commencement, we stayed in the same dorm room for parents) that our son now has some “catchup work” to do for being a premed. He was very aware that our S was not very enthusiastic in building up his premed CV outside of the academic area – even though he had completed all of his premed classes relatively early in college. Another CCer here said that basically his school saved him in the end (he did have a “wustl-worthy” LizzyM score though.)</p>