Personally I stepped away from pre-med because I couldn't stand the idea of my major determining my life for the next ten years - graduate programs, internships

Personally I stepped away from pre-med because I couldn't stand the idea of my major determining my life for the next ten years - graduate programs, internships, residence, all that stuff, it's daunting when you're 21 and all you want to do is STUFF. Going premed would mean what I'd done was just the beginning not an accomplishment in and of itself. That was daunting and a bit demoralizing. The fact is it's not for everyone, and not just because of the difficulty (I never excelled in math or organic chemistry), and people like me who get in because it's interesting often find that the career paths that present themselves are strictly defined and entail a lot of drudgery. I remember perceiving this very clearly in my 3rd year after doing a lot of prep work and it was an easy decision. I ended up majoring in Psych with minors in Neuroscience and Cog Sci, for the record, which was hard as hell anyway, but technically a BA and not applicable to STEM-type employment.