She has an Aunt with a PHD in pharmacology and makes about $225,000 a year. If you have a pharmacology phd some hospitals will give a $40,000 to $70,000 sign on bonus. She maybe young but she is not stupid! You can't make that working at Home Depot or Walmart or emptying bedpans.
Okay, thanks. I think that is possible with some preparation. Since I was unprepared, I did badly on the math part and ended up with 680 or 690 or something, I don't remember exactly. That was in the 90th percentile.
Yeah, but there's no way to know what the market will be like when your daugther finally gets to that point, as that is a very long way away. And, one of the reasons I assume PhD Pharmacologists are paid as well as they are is because very few people can make it through the program. My uncle wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and become a physician. My uncle didn't make it through. But most importantly, there are millions of ways to make a lot of money (it's not like the choice is between working at Wal-Mart or being a PhD Pharmacologist). Deciding on a career based on someone else's earnings is a bad way to approach something that will make up such a large portion of someone's life. Money is nice, but it isn't everything. But either way, she won't take the GMAT to get into a graduate school to study pharmacology. She'll take the GRE. Different, though similar, test.
Right on mrpaige - The absolute worst thing you could do going into college would be to have a certain curriculum / career set out. That would be stupid.
