<p>I recently talked with somebody who eerily seemed to represent all of my future goals for the most part.</p>
<p>Let me first describe myself:
HS student
Previously wanted to do bio major in undergrad, but now want to do chemical engineering
Interested in retinal eye surgery
Interested in several med schools, including WUStL</p>
<p>Now, let me describe who I met:
Fellowship fellow
Did bio major, then switched to chemical engineering in undergrad at MIT
Currently doing fellowship in retinal eye surgery
Attended WUStL MD/PHD program (I am not so sure about wanting to do such a long program myself)</p>
<p>Anyways, I learned that if you just follow your passion, then you will succeed no matter how hard your major is.</p>
<p>Anybody else got inspirational stories about meeting your epitome/clone?</p>
<p>Unfortunately, most of the people who are like me (ie from CA and wanting to go to a UC for med school) didn’t get in. lol The previous post-bac in my lab got lots of good out of state interviews (Columbia, JHU, etc.) but only two interviews from UC’s and didn’t get into a single school in California :(</p>
<p>o.O, if they got interviews from columbia, jhu, etc. they must have atleast gottten an interview from ucd o.O…norcalguy, you r making cali residents feel absoluetely hopeless =/</p>
<p>norcalguy, do you know if UCs favor UC applicants over Cali residents that go OOS? I"m a Cali res, and I’m gonna be at WashU next year, and there’s a couple of UCs that are high up on my preferred list…</p>