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Medical schools are biased towards wealthy students. Poor students don’t look at them as say, “huh, let’s make no money for a decade and get tons of debt”. Maki
by grumple 6y ago
Medical schools are biased towards wealthy students. Poor students don’t look at them as say, “huh, let’s make no money for a decade and get tons of debt”. Making the process longer and more expensive ensures that poor kids don’t have a chance, while also allowing universities and hospitals to milk the students for as much money as possible.
- programmertote 6y ago100% agree. I have two college friends who are now full-blown specialist doctors (one orthopedic from UCSD and another psychiatrist graduated from JHU). Both of them came from well-off backgrounds (in fact, both of them have at least one parent who is a doctor). Their parents helped them connect with practicing doctors in famous hospitals (e.g., children hospital of Philly) when they were in college, and both of these friends already had a handful of internship/externship experiences at credible hospitals when they graduate from college. The psychiatrist friend even took one year off to study for USMLE step 2 before she applied to med school. Who can afford this kind of luxury? It's simply because her parents are both doctors (one psychiatrist and one anesthesiologist) and make a total of easily 600K/year back in 2009. In comparison, while she (my friend) was studying for USMLE step 2, I was frantically looking for a job in 2009 after graduating from college (the same class year as her). If one does a bit of research on doctors, one may likely find a positive correlation with their parents being wealthy (and also being one of their parents being a doctor). To become a doctor, one has to be born in a truly middle-class family (like parents earning at least 200K/year total with nowadays dollar kind of middle class).