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First of all, I'd like to apologize for not posting in the correct format/thread/whatnot (I honestly have no idea how this whole Internet thing works). Secondly, I'd like to apologize for having what I thought was an original title...clearly, I was wrong.
Hi all. I'm 22 years old, almost 23, and am currently enrolled in a post-bac program completing my prerequisites (I was a polisci major, whoops). I graduated with a 3.45 or so overall GPA (did really bad freshman year, better sophmore, and then markedly better junior and senior year). I currently have all A's in my postbac classes, however stupid me decided to get an F in stats and two C's as well in classes my freshman year. I had essentially no experiences, jobs, nothing, until recently. In the span of one year I worked at a reasearch lab at Harvard, and CURRENTLY teach a biology class to lower income middle school students, am an intern at a hospital with a homeless population, work as a Mental Health Specialist at a hospital, have a leadership position in my extension/postbac program, and am an avid martial artists (I was a D1 wrestler for two years in college before focusing on academics). (I did Model UN for two years and was a political intern for a semester, but as you can all agree, those aren't exactly relevant).
The whole point of me writing this, and I really do appreciate those who have stuck with me this far, is to know if I honestly have a shot in hell applying to medical school (A. in general B. if I take the MCAT in July/should I wait another year). I'm farily new to all the bureaucratic "stuff" that goes into actually applying to medical school..but anyways...I truly appreciate any advice/help you guys can give me.
(Both my parents work at Columbia and are physicians, does that help at all, or am I too f***** to even consider this as an advantage)
Hi all. I'm 22 years old, almost 23, and am currently enrolled in a post-bac program completing my prerequisites (I was a polisci major, whoops). I graduated with a 3.45 or so overall GPA (did really bad freshman year, better sophmore, and then markedly better junior and senior year). I currently have all A's in my postbac classes, however stupid me decided to get an F in stats and two C's as well in classes my freshman year. I had essentially no experiences, jobs, nothing, until recently. In the span of one year I worked at a reasearch lab at Harvard, and CURRENTLY teach a biology class to lower income middle school students, am an intern at a hospital with a homeless population, work as a Mental Health Specialist at a hospital, have a leadership position in my extension/postbac program, and am an avid martial artists (I was a D1 wrestler for two years in college before focusing on academics). (I did Model UN for two years and was a political intern for a semester, but as you can all agree, those aren't exactly relevant).
The whole point of me writing this, and I really do appreciate those who have stuck with me this far, is to know if I honestly have a shot in hell applying to medical school (A. in general B. if I take the MCAT in July/should I wait another year). I'm farily new to all the bureaucratic "stuff" that goes into actually applying to medical school..but anyways...I truly appreciate any advice/help you guys can give me.
(Both my parents work at Columbia and are physicians, does that help at all, or am I too f***** to even consider this as an advantage)
