Many students defer application to medical school.
Their reasons differ. Some want to achieve other goals before they embark on the well-defined road leading to a medical degree. Others know that they need to take more courses to enhance their credentials and to improve their chances of admission. Still others want to consider their decision carefully and gain work experience to confirm their choice of medicine or to consider other options that attract them. Although it may never be easy financially and in terms of your long-term goals to take a year off, some feel that the break between college and medical school is one of the last times that they would be in a position to devote themselves intensely to something other than medicine.