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Written by Meredith King
Meg Klepack’s path to medical school might have seemed obvious. The daughter of a family doctor and a former nurse, coming from a long line of physicians on her mother’s side, Klepack seemed destined for medicine. But she never saw herself as a doctor, in part because she admired her father so much. “He’s up on a pedestal in my mind,” she says. Instead, after graduating from Cornell with a degree in natural resource management in 2004, she followed her interest in politics and the environment. It took nine years for her to end up right back where she started: surrounded by doctors and nurses. In January 2013, she began the University of Vermont’s Post-Baccalaureate Premedical Program.