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After high school, I plan to go to a four-year college where I will either major in psychology or biology. If I meet the school requirement then I will also be doing a pre-professional program for medicine. Once I graduate with my bachelor's degree, I plan on taking my MCATs to go to medical school. After the four years of medical school, I am required to do three years of residency before I can officially be a practicing doctor. Once that is done my main goal of being a pediatrician will be accomplished.

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i. Representative- the match to our prototype.
Representative Heuristic can negatively affect my decision making for my college. Similar to stereotypes the location and the percentage of a certain race can influence my choice. …show more content…

Availability- Availability Heuristic can positively and negatively affect my decision to go to a certain college. For example, if I come upon a school’s name that seems familiar, I might remember that just recently this school had a rape incident that was never fully charged. This school will have a bad reputation to be me because I am a female and I do not want to risk a possibility. There may be a school somewhat similar to this school with the rape, but the fact that I cannot remember there being any rape issue can place this school on my list. This is negative because this second school might be worst in social life, academia and there might be a greater number of rape that have occurred there however, it had never been reported. Another example could be if the school has a reputation because they were just awarded champion in a sport. Since the school was awarded first place or champions, I want to go to that school even though they might have the worst standards in the country in academics, this can be a negative effect. On the other hand, if another school was just awarded first place or champion and incidentally I wanted to go to that school that would be a positive. The reason behind it is because I wanted to go to that school beforehand probably because they had a great sports program that I wanted to join or a pre-professional program that I

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