如果你是我你会怎么做?(医学和公共汽车iness)

Med School

First. Take a deep breath. You're in a good position. Young, in school, good gpa, sunny city, great waves etc. Deep breath. Exhale.

如果您不是110％的确定要当医生，那就不要计划医学院。听起来您已经考虑了时间承诺现在考虑财务承诺。如果您进入医学院1 - 2年并决定不适合您，会发生什么？现在，您的债务+ $ 10万美元+，并且坚持背景不一定有利于您进入金融的目标。

I always liked finance because it's applicable to all industries whereas when you're a doctor you're a doctor in a very specific niche applicable to very specific situations.

You can get into medical/pharma/bio industry with a business background.

Don't do anything to appease your parents too. Your success and happiness is all they want.

I'm a surgical resident. Don't do it.

PM me if you'd like a more thorough discussion.

Wow this is a lot. You need to calm down and use the summer to think. I wanted to be a doctor before switching into finance. Thankfully for me that was during the summer before I started college. I'd say 1/3 of all recruiting is finished and I think most diversity recruiting is done. When I wanted to be a doctor I'd plan my life out 15 years in advance (college, med school, internship/residency, maybe fellowship, and then finally have a real life). That works well for medicine but right now you have to think short term.

AnMBA很好，如果您是崛起的大四学生，我会说考虑2+2或MBA. But you're a rising junior (I am too). Focus on getting an analyst position at anIB, don't focus on doing something you don't want to do for 2-4 years, applying for anMBAand then getting intoIBas an associate.

Next thing you need to do is figure out what career fields interest you and why. Again, use the summer. Read books aboutIB,PE, medicine, law, whatever. More importantly, start networking and reach out to people and have an honest conversation with them about what they do. Alumni, in my experience, tend to be very honest. A lot of successful analysts doIBfor the money and leave after 2 years intoPE,HF,VC, Corp Dev, whatever. It sucks, and you'll probably hate work every day, but you make money and you can leave after 2 years. I wouldn't encourage it but I wouldn't discourage it either. I would never encourage going into medicine for the money. When I wanted to do medicine I thought I would enjoy it and even though I disliked my science classes I justified it as they weren't applied enough, and being a real doctor is different than learning all of the foundational knowledge. I was always good at STEM classes, but I never really enjoyed the subjects, though I lied to myself about that. Then I did an internship at a hospital and loathed it, hence finance.

Now let's say you decide you want to pursueIB(可能in and of itself, maybe to lead you toHF,PE,VC, Corp Dev). You're behind the game because recruiting is early, not as early as last year or you'd be screwed, but still pretty early. A lot ofBBapplications are online now or will be by July. SomeEBapplications have been online since Spring and I'm not sure if they're still online. I'm not sure how much of a target UCSD is, but online applications don't do anything. You need to start networking immediately. Since you got to a UC school, West Coast banks are probably your best option. I made a list of 300 people to reach out to to get an internship. I made a trip toNY. You need to contact as many people as possible, alumni are the friendliest, and get them to vouch for you. Start speaking to analyst and have them connect you with other analysts. Once you get confident about your networking skills and you know you want to doIB, contact VPs, they can get you an interview (I've been focusing onEBsso not sure if that's true for BBs).

You can spin your background in pre-med, but not liking it (give a better reason than the time commitment becauseIB时间承诺),但仍然发现国际米兰吗esting and that's why you like HealthcareIB. That's what I say in every interview. I've only focused onNY, not the West Coast, so I have no idea which banks are represented there or anything like that, but I'd look through linkedin and check out alumni in SF, LA, andNY.

总结：1。冷静下2.调查职业，并确定IB：3。网络立即要做什么，您不会太晚，但是您错过了一些机会4.与这些连接进行咖啡聊天5.要求他们转介

If you need to know anything else PM me and we can have a phone call or something

At Accepted some consultants advise med school applicants and others advise b-school (and other grad) applicants. So I've seen the full range.

不要上医学院或继续走上医学院的道路，因为即使您得出结论，您也不适合您。这是要求的，需要承诺。你没有。

So, go do something you like that could make you as much or more money than becoming a doctor.

The idea that just because you didn't start as a business major, you can't work in finance or consulting is just not true. If UCSD doesn't have business courses for undergrads, consider switching schools or getting a masters in finance or a masters in management.

Do the research to determine which career will give you the life you most want to lead. Then figure out how to pursue that career. But your professional options are much more flexible than you believe. Your life's just beginning. Not over.

You can have both. I know of some people who did MD, then later went into finance. Mostly these did Equity Research. Focus was on biotech or healthcare industries. Getting anMBAwill also help.

But this is a long road: 4 years college + 4 years med school + residency +MBA.

大家好，

I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful insight and advice; it has helped me immensely in deciding what I want to do for my future. As many have said, there is no point in pursuing medicine if I am not wholeheartedly interested or passionate about it, despite possible familial pressure.

Although I am late in the finance game, I'm just going to try my best to network with local investment banks and hedge funds to see if they can offer me any sort of internship or anything to help me get my feet wet. I can always go to business school down the road, but I will now just focus on trying to get an internship which will eventually lead me to a good job after graduation.

I have reached out and pm'ed some of you for more advice in regards to specifics about how to go about networking, and possibly leveraging my "premed" background as interest in HealthcareIB. Again, I just want to thank you for all you help!

I didn't read the whole post because you wrote the next chapter of War & Peace, but as someone who has many MD friends, if you're not 100% sure you want to be a doctor for reasons OTHER THAN MONEY, do NOT do it. I have multiple MD friends who had absolute freakouts about going into medicine once they got through a couple of years of med school or residency. It's a very long, tough and expensive path to take that is hard to put up with if you don't have some degree of intrinsic motivation.

Stop thinking about what your parents will think of your path. Seriously, stop it. Doing something for the sole purpose of fulfilling your parents' ambitions will prevent your future success and will make you a bitter person who resents your parents. Your parents have your best at heart. But they are NOT you. They don't know your thinking or deeper interests. To be really successful you have to have at least significant interest in something - and ideally a burning passion for it. If you go into medicine you will be a mediocre or lousy doctor, and you will resent your parents. I was pre-med (my science grades sucked, so I'm in finance) and I know a handful of doctors who went into medicine for parental reasons. To a one, they resent their parents, feel trapped in the field, and wish that had done something else. It's a dis-service to your patients, it's a dis-service to your parents, and it's a dis-service to yourself. You would in a sense be forcing your parents' wishes onto patients, and you will be depriving someone who really belongs in medical school a seat.

超越兴趣，这也可能与规避风险有关。药物更安全，薪水良好。金融的天花板较高，但楼层较低。

Bussiness. If you are even asking this you dont want to go into medicine.