Well, I live in middle east, and my family is not quite wealthy, my father was a factory worker and he did not make any investments during his youth whatsoever, so we are stuck with nearly no money in the bank accounts, no properties, nothing, just living on pension he receives
In here we have a nation wide exam every year that one has to take to get into college, and my placing was good enough for me to get into any college in any major so my family left it for me to choose
Unemployment rates are very high here, even top tier graduates can go unemployed for months, maybe more if they don't have stong connections, which I don't
Doctors on the other hand are guaranteed to be employed, regardless of how well they do in college, a privilige that engineers can't enjoy, with a low GPA finding a job is even harder
Knowing that a single depressed month could result in extra months of unemployment I choosed medicine, I don't regret it so far
It is quit easy for me, all I have to do is to read a few textbooks before the exams and I get near perfect grades, I don't think I could be this lax in an engineering major as I would have projects and such