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This is a great thread......so much good scoop.
Just my humble 2 cents here——- encourage your son to select pharmacy or engineering. Pre med is cut throat down to the bone. Getting selected to one of the medical schools in the US is brutally competitive. If your son is selected & graduates, he will owe at least 100K in student loans, unless he goes the military scholarship route.
Then, it takes a looooooooong time after his internship, residency & fellowship, to start seeing a return on his investment.
Depending on his specialty, he may not even earn as much as a good pharmacist, or engineer with a good company.
And then, if we go to socialized medicine, well then, just forget it. He will be working for peanuts.
Just my humble 2 cents here——- encourage your son to select pharmacy or engineering. Pre med is cut throat down to the bone. Getting selected to one of the medical schools in the US is brutally competitive. If your son is selected & graduates, he will owe at least 100K in student loans, unless he goes the military scholarship route.
Then, it takes a looooooooong time after his internship, residency & fellowship, to start seeing a return on his investment.
Depending on his specialty, he may not even earn as much as a good pharmacist, or engineer with a good company.
And then, if we go to socialized medicine, well then, just forget it. He will be working for peanuts.