It takes anywhere between eleven to fourteen years of education after high school to become a doctor. To start the process, a hopeful student must complete four years of college, focusing on math and science to fulfill pre-medical requirements in order to attend medical school for another four years. The first two years of medical school are basics, and the second two years are rotations to learn what specialty a young doctor would like to go into. After earning a medical degree from that school, a doctor must go through three to six years of residency, depending on the specialty he or she chooses. A person’s journey to become a doctor can stop at any time, if he or she doesn’t pass any of the required exams, like the Medical College Admission Test, the USMLE Step 1 (taken after the first half of medical school) and the USMLE Step 2 (taken after the second half of medical school), or the board exams (taken after residency), which are just a few listed on DoctorPreMed.com. To be a doctor, a person must be very dedicated to the medical field in order to obtain the necessary …show more content…
A student must go through four years of college to obtain a bachelor’s degree in any major, as long as their GPA stays above a 3.0, according to LegalCareerPath.com. This GPA is essential to get into law school, a three-year program in which lawyers earn their law degrees. In addition, students must also take multiple exams, like the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) and their state’s Bar Exam, which allows lawyers to legally practice law in their state, but is very difficult to pass. Overall, the schooling to become a lawyer is typically seven years, without any on-the-job training. After twelve years of basic education, this career path might not be appealing to