My life goal is to be a doctor.  There are so many opportunities once you get into med-school, which of course will be very hard to do.  For those of you who don't know, even the state funded schools where only Louisiana residents can get in have a certain quota.  For instance: LSU- Shreveport only allows 100 students in a year.  They get around 600 applications and are forced to choose the best.  Last years average GPA was a 3.7 and their average MCAT was a 27.  The MCAT is a nine and one half hour test given only twice a year, once in August and once in April.  You arrive on a Saturday morning at 8:00 am and are not allowed to leave until 5:30 pm.  The MCAT is divided into four sections, physical sciences, verbal reasoning, writing sample, and biological sciences.  Once you take this test and apply to the med-school of you choice, you then have to go through an interview and a whole process to get in, but once you get into med-school your choices are endless as to what kind of practice you want. 

I would ideally like to be a reconstructive plastic surgeon.  This would not be so much aesthetic (cosmetic) surgery, but rather for burn victims or people who get seriously injured in car wrecks.  More of my work would be out of the emergency room or in the years after a wreck in which many different proceedures must be done to fix a patient.  I am also very interested in  neurosurgery.   The only problem I have with this field is that most of your patients do not get better.  You are simply preserving thier way of life.  I would ideally like to be able to help my patients and bring them into a better life.

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