Can someone that is of average intelligence be a doctor? I'm pre med and I'm worried :/
Can someone that is of average intelligence be a doctor? I'm pre med and I'm worried :/
Sebastian Perry
Parker Parker
i'm in med school atm and you wouldn't believe how retarded some of my classmates are
you can get in by working hard and/or having connections.
Sebastian Baker
You need 105+ IQ.
But lot of people I met have around 120, me 135+.
Benjamin Ortiz
This. Most pre-meds are major fucking brainlets, so, if you have average intelligence and a strong work ethic, I think you would succeed.
Nathaniel James
this
Julian Allen
Will being a black girl help?
Camden Cruz
yes. affirmative action is pretty strong for admissions atm, you can have subpar GPA and MCAT and still make it in.
Andrew Butler
Anyone can be a doctor. There are many retarded doctors.
To become a (real) mathematician/physicist, that's a whole different story, for that you need a very high IQ (probably 150+).
Nicholas Hughes
Okay, but I want to be a dermatologist. Can an average person match into that?
Justin Peterson
>Anyone can be a doctor
Untrue simply because of the few number of seats available. There are far more qualified applicants than there are seats available. Assuming you make it in, yes you pretty much have a >95% chance of becoming a doctor (assuming its a US MD school).
No. The cream of the crop of med school students match into derm. They are usually well published and have high board scores. The USMLE covers a shit ton of material and is exceedingly difficult to score well enough on it to be competitive for derm.