House negotiators laboring over final details of immigration deal - Page 2

We (bf and I) want to be in denial that is going to take that long, sigh.

off topic: you want to pursue medical school, right?

@desice: I do. Another sigh. I will gladly spend the next 10 yrs of my life in pursuit of the medical profession, but without legal status...you know the answer.

The issue is that acceptance to medical school is also very much contingent on the amount of years that you will give back to the profession. As expensive as med school is, medical ed and training will invest far more resources on you, so the older you are the more difficult it (theoretically, although I suspect it also in practice) is to gain acceptance as you have less years to practice medicine. Not impossible and of course your personal statement would reflect on the obstacles of an undocumented life, but I feel I'm in a better place approaching this from a certain naivity as this is what has kept me going, otherwise if I'd known what I was really in for, I would have found it so daunting, I'd have given up. Hence, why I am still in this country.

Are you interested in medicine?

Yes... I am hoping to apply this cycle. We'll see how it goes...