Likely for the reason you state. Only 30-40% will get accepted to med schools and those students are the top of the top. What do the other 60-70% do? Well, they must, absolutely must, have a Plan B long before they graduate. You can’t bank on getting into to med school and, if you are not a top student, your chances are even lower, perhaps bordering on nonexistent. I think it appropriate for advisors to be very upfront and blunt about this reality and, if they know a student isn’t cutting it, to emphasize to them that they need to find their Plan B, sooner rather than later.
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