<p>When and what made you decide that you wanted to be a doctor?</p>
<p>Probably in 5th grade for me. reason why… will be different than your reason. It’s like asking why do you love your parents. </p>
<p>Med school is hard, being a doctor is hard, and compensation is going down. You really need to think about whether you will be happy as a doctor. For the reasons I just listed, you NEED TO HAVE A GENUINE reason for wanting to go into medicine. Even if that reason is “I want to make a lot of money as a radiologist” that answer will come out a lot more honestly than “I want to contribute to society”</p>
<p>There were several of my classmates that went to medical school because of prestige,because my parents were doctors,because its the hardest thing I could think of doing, because I really didn’t think about it, because other people think I’m smart for being a pre-med, etc. The most miserable classmates were the ones that were freakishly intelligent but were pushed into medical school from outside forces.</p>