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Originally posted by Dmitry M. (Lazer)
Another mistake people are making is that they go to college for business degrees. Yes it may help, but to run a business you do not need a degree.
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Many people go to college for business degrees because they want to work in business, not because they want to own a business. When entering the job field, it's far superior to have a bachelor's degree in business than attempting to enter an organization with a high school education. This includes a better starting salary and ability to move up through promotion.
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People don't want to go into fields like Medical Doctor, Judicial Doctors (Lawyers), and other fields dealing with a Doctorine and having to go to college for 6-12 years. Everyone wants to get out of college after 4 years.
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First off, it's Doctorate, not "Doctorine" which isn't a word, or even Doctrine for that matter. Second, there are more medical and law students today than there has ever been in history. Just because the majority of college students aren't interested in graduate school doesn't mean they are lazy. Another reason has to do with the expense of going to school that long, or simply the intensity of getting a PhD or even getting into the program. There are strict requirements to get into a PhD program, including superior grades in your undergraduate studies and scores on your Graduate Record Examination (GRE); not to mention a dissertation or thesis that must be written and passing of boards.
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Also a lot of the problems are put into college students by there own professors or by the guidence counselor's. The people that are supposed encourage you, keep on telling you not to take Chemistry, Physics, Organic Chemistry, Philosophy, and many other challenging classes. They say you will not be ale to handle them. They are hard. And they believe you can only handle them once you're a senior. And this causes a lot more college students to take easier majors, rather then harder ones.
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Guidance counselors are meant to guide you, not necessarily encourage you. It's often unnecessary to take an extreme load of classes your Freshman or Sophomore year, especially if you're attempting to adjust to the new environment of college. Also, if you're attempting to get into a program later in your college career that relies on GPA, it's definitely smarter to spread difficult classes out. If every guidance counselor told their students to pile extremely difficult classes into their first few semesters, you'd see more dropouts and switching into easier majors. Your guidance counselor was attempting to show you that by spreading your more difficult classes across semesters, you'll receive higher grades that will help your chances of getting into the Pharmacy program.
You'll have to keep us informed how your upcoming semester goes...