It’s funny how so many requirements are placed on acceptance
into professional school. One has to be a well rounded student. For example,
medical school, one has to have research experience, community service, work
experience, shadowing a doctor experience, good grades, take the standardized
exam, called the MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) and the most
interesting of them all, community service. Let’s focus on community service. I’m
sure there are good hearts out there, but what percentage of students who are
planning to apply for medical school will do community service if they were not
applying for medical school? Or what percentage of students will continue with
community service when they get their acceptance letter to medical school. My speculation,
less than ten percent. What do you think?
In addition, all those that were big on community service,
how many will use their degree when they successfully graduate to offer free
health service to the less privileged? In the end, it was just a money game. A disguise
of purity and innocence and kindness wore to fulfill one’s dreams of making
money. One might argue, but being a doctor is my dream. So let me ask you, if you
were to toil, and sweat and read, coupled with so many sleepless nights, for
more than ten years just to get a degree that the pay is ten dollars per hour,
would being a doctor still be your dream? Let’s be real here, some people would
not do community service without an ulterior motive of trying to get into a
professional school or something else. What do you think?
