What is the best age to start medical school?

Knowing how to function in a high-stress environment, interact with a wide variety of people, and assert themselves helps medical students succeed.

Plus, they're generally somewhat used to living on a shoestring budget and running on little to no sleep since they haven't been out of college long.

Even though this is the best age to start medical school, that isn't to say that you can't do it earlier or later in life. It just means that you may encounter more obstacles during these seasons.

Younger students will often be more used to the grind of studying and test-taking and have more familiarity with the information in their studies since they just finished college, but often medical schools want applicants to have more work experience than many new graduates have.

This can make it difficult to get into medical school and then to succeed once they're there.

While older students bring valuable work and life experience to the table, they also often have more responsibilities in their personal lives, making the long, stressful hours of medical school even more difficult.

Whenever you go to medical school, just remember that it may be hard, but it is also temporary and will change the rest of your life.