I'm fully aware that to Sci-types a SocSci GPA is about as impressive as a statue made of toilet paper rolls; however, as a requirement for the MD Plus program is simultaneous acceptance into both the Faculty of Medicine and whatever the second faculty is, my current GPA would certainly help with acceptance into one, which would leave me time to focus on acceptance on another.
As far as funding: I have yet to take a student loan, as the Bank of Dead Grandparents has not become insolvent to date; that said, my credit is good, and I'd be willing to go into debt for a degree that would assuredly earn me money(for my MD I'd focus on being a GP, which is always in demand somewhere).
For the "narrowing" of my knowledge, I'd have you know that I ultimately asipre to be a polymath, for as Socrates said:
"I have examined the poets, and I view them as people whose talent makes an impression on them and on others who claim to be wise, who are taken to be such, and are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved on to artists. No one knew less about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed some specially fine secrets. Still, I perceived that their condition is no better than that of the poets, and that they are both laboring under the same prejudice.
I should hope that my different background should bring some outside knowledge into the faculty, as per the stated purpose of the MD Plus/Leaders in Medicine program. Additionally, if I were to hone the impact of the body of my knowledge to a scalpel's slice instead of a shotgun's blast, my degree(and employability) would only be useful within one arena: academia.
As far as funding: I have yet to take a student loan, as the Bank of Dead Grandparents has not become insolvent to date; that said, my credit is good, and I'd be willing to go into debt for a degree that would assuredly earn me money(for my MD I'd focus on being a GP, which is always in demand somewhere).
For the "narrowing" of my knowledge, I'd have you know that I ultimately asipre to be a polymath, for as Socrates said:
"I have examined the poets, and I view them as people whose talent makes an impression on them and on others who claim to be wise, who are taken to be such, and are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved on to artists. No one knew less about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed some specially fine secrets. Still, I perceived that their condition is no better than that of the poets, and that they are both laboring under the same prejudice.
I should hope that my different background should bring some outside knowledge into the faculty, as per the stated purpose of the MD Plus/Leaders in Medicine program. Additionally, if I were to hone the impact of the body of my knowledge to a scalpel's slice instead of a shotgun's blast, my degree(and employability) would only be useful within one arena: academia.
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