Also, with all due respect - some (most) careers advisors know tosh all about medicine and the daunting application process (I speak as someone whos been through it twice). I'm not condescending them, overall i think they can be great, but they need to have such a vast knowledge on all different type of careers! So they don't have much in depth knowledge on specific careers. Getting into medicine is possibly the most difficult of all careers worldwide and hence has a pretty complicated procedure.