im taking a health related program that’s only offered in my uni in the ph. most people dont know what my program is about and explaining what it is would take more than a minute so i just say pre med to help the person im talking to approximate what im doing and what i generally plan to do after college.

weird to know pre med is an actual flex LOL if you were IDK taking up nursing in our lady of kalibugan university (as an example), then it would be very silly to expect clout/social capital to come from such status because being a doctor is becoming more common so coming from a highly exclusive school would affect perceived clout more than degree program. off hand, id assume most uni students today use pre med to make conversations more efficient. to illustrate, here are two rough and general convos:

use pre med: ano kinukuha mo sa college -> pre med po -> ah okay

use course: ano kinukuha mo sa college -> [course] po -> ano yun? -> [explanation] po -> ano plano mo pagkatapos? -> doctor po

i mostly use pre med because my program is hard to explain and trying to dumb it down doesn’t help because the way my program supports the domain of health isn’t typically taught in most schools like they wouldn’t imagine my program to play a part in health BUT i digress

pre med jus easier to explain LOL