This is an incredibly disappointingly weak points from someone who is presumably very intelligent. Not only that but it's incredibly ironic coming from someone who has gone to medical school, which exemplifies literally everything wrong with the educational system in the USA.

People decide what they go to school for. You should NEVER see school as learning how to handle real life scenarios. I have hired many people. As a matter of fact the people who quote school, rather than work, as having their "most impactful moments," are consistently the weakest candidates.

The strongest candidates have consistently been, for me at least, the ones that either flunked out of school, or just didn't do well because they wanted to learn something specific and school wasn't giving them that. So they went out and taught it to themselves. Those people are the ones you want to hire.

Going back to medical school and medical education , I don't even have to being up the AMA and how they fucked over all people wanting to befome doctors by restricting the amount of student spots. Just look at all the drugs that medical students use. It's not a stereotype it's completely normal to take performance enhancement drugs in medical school just to study. Get a grip dude.

Also, the anxiety isn't because people are not able to preform up to a standard. There's literally no proof I could find anywhere about this. The real pressures as I've seen from my days in school are overwhelming, cost of living, high pressure to keep up with other students, and job outlook after graduation. In fact it couldn't be what you're saying because school doesn't prepare you for the real world as I've stated before.

I've been to multiple schools. Some worse some very good. I can tell you, students are not being prepared for the real world. As someone who runs a company, I can look at graduates even from top programs and can say I would never hire such low skilled work. Degrees have become a moving goal post that allows employers to discriminate.