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I wonder what the BEST major (for making money) is... My dad is an electrical engineer and he tells me he wished he would have been a doctor - they get paid more. >>
I used to be a premed and this isn't really true all things considered, I've thought about it at some length. It's extremely difficult to get into med school, you spend 8-12 years after college (that's 8-12 years of salary lost plus med school tuition). Plus family practice doctors make around 120k a year, which isn't really great considering how many years they put into school. Given the same timeline, a good engineer will cap out at 100k/year, possibly before a med student can finish school. And the risk of not making it isn't really there for an engineer, they just have to grind it out, finish school, and they can get jobs. Docs aren't the same way, they fight with each other, the best of the best, for very limited openings in med schools. Very big gamble cause if they don't make it into med school, they wasted 4 years of college.
This happened to a very good friend of mine, he went through HS and university with the mindset of wanting to be a doctor. He did fine on his mcat and grades (2 digits on all sections of the mcat and 3.5+ gpa), but he still didn't get into any med schools. He tells me now he wishes he had majored in engineering instead of being a premed.
Cardiologists are a different thing, they make a quarter mil a year
