From the course: Evaluating College as an Investment
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The importance of picking your career first
From the course: Evaluating College as an Investment
The importance of picking your career first
- So it's really important to at least have an idea of what you want to do before you go to college. So the average person picks a college first, then they choose their major, and then once they graduate, they choose their career. Well, I'm here to tell you this is completely backward. And in fact, we're going to do it the exact opposite way. If I know I want to be a medical doctor, then I know there are only a couple majors that I can do in order to become a doctor, biology being one of them. So if I know that biology is a great major for me, then I know I should go to a college that really specializes in biology, and maybe even as a feeder into the medical school system. Because as we all know, medical school is really hard to get into. So I better be sure I have the right major, and I better be sure that the college I am going to is actually going to help me get into medical school. So normal people pick a college first…
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