Will Med Schools not accept Summer Courses?

mcat2
Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:31:02 +0000

I would guess the OP may have long gone from this thread and leave us (mostly CC parents who have kids on this medicine track) “premed parenting hormone raging” about all these hard-to-confirm “CC wisdom.”

When I mentioned this heated discussion to my wife who has never and will never visit either CC or SDN, her comment is amusing to me: How come it would often take the parents who have kids having been through the premed/med school process a much longer time to cool down on any topic related to premed?

My wild guess is that we may tend to commit more of our energy to our premed kids than the parents whose kids choose other career paths which require only BS/BA or at most a short stint on MS. Whether we parents could actually help or not is totally another issue: It could help but it could not - it could even hurt in some situation if the family dynamics do not favor parent’s involvement.

After all, more debt/time/labor/sleep-starvation in the long grueling training is needed for anyone to pursue this medicine career path and it keeps all of us nervous and sometimes more up-tight about it.

BTW, I notice that the parents who send their kids to big name colleges could be affected by the similar syndrome. Or the parents whose kids have got a free ride in some prestigious honor programs. Heck, a private music teacher DS had many years ago still has very sweet memory about her ivy league education (not even including the UG years there)!30+ years later!