akuperma -“While it is illegal, medical schools tend to discriminate against older students. The fact that it take a long time (probably two years for basic undergraduate science courses assuming you have atg least some sort of undergraduate degreee, then four years of medical school, then residency) makes them reluctant for a new student who won’t start professional life until retirement age.”
I’m in the medical field and went back to school a few years ago -started older than her.
I’d like to know where you got your fact of “medical schools tend to discriminate against older students”?
Perhaps you are confusing general discrimination with age?
Medical schools in general like to discriminate against e/o.
After you finish your 4 degree and with the type of sciences that they like and with the Mcat (preferably) and then you submit everything -they tend to delay most students around a year before acceptance. The top notch schools are very picky. But being a good practioner has to do with you, not where you went to school.