Op-ed: Dear Pre-meds: a gap year will help, not hurt you

Op-ed: Dear Pre-meds: a gap year will help, not hurt you

For most of my time in college, I believed that taking gap years as a pre-med student would break my career. I thought they were for individuals lacking in some area of their application or those who cracked under pressure and couldn’t handle the workload of a pre-med student. Not me. Or so I thought. Choosing the pre-med path had always been the obvious choice for me. For as long as I can remember, I was enchanted by the pristine white coats, h…