Hi, everybody! I'm headed for c/o 2022 as well. I'm 32, married with 3 kids (ages 7, 5, and 4), started university on the pre-med track, then switched to liberal arts halfway through. I've been practicing law for the past nine years, and have finally decided that I can't let another year pass without getting back to what I really want to be doing, which is medicine. My uGPA is a 3.6, and my law GPA doesn't bear mentioning, so I'm taking 7 or 8 science courses at my local 4-year college (which is where I hope to be starting medical school in 2018) to build a sGPA and hopefully boost my cGPA as well.
I was just accepted as a second bachelors degree student, and I'm planning to declare a major in Chemistry with a Biochem concentration, to help with registering for classes and getting financial aid (although I won't be eligible for any need-based aid because of my household income). If I'm accepted to med school next cycle, I won't finish the second bachelors degree, but if I'm not, finishing that degree will give me something to do while I prepare to apply again the following cycle.
I'm starting my pre-reqs in Summer 2016 with Statistics (I don't know why the med school I want to attend requires it, but it does) and a Gen Chem overview. I made As in Gen Chem, I think, but it's been over 15 years since I took a Chemistry class, so I think the refresher will help me. I'm hoping that taking some "easy" classes will help me get back into the student mindset after close to a decade outside the classroom.
I've begun shadowing, but have a lot more to do. The biggest problem I've encountered is getting hospitals to credential me to shadow there, given that I'm not a med student. I have tons of doctor friends going to bat for me, but the only shadowing I've been able to get into so far is in their private offices.
I volunteer hundreds of hours a year, serve on non-profit boards, and am active in our local music and theater scenes, so I feel like my non-clinical ECs are on point, if not above average. I've just applied for a scribe position to get some clinical experience beyond the limited shadowing I've been able to do (plus, hopefully, get credentialed so that I CAN shadow in the hospitals - we have a Level I trauma center in town, and I'm just ITCHING to get into it!), so we will see how that goes. I haven't done any scientific research (although, I'm a lawyer, so other kinds of research are basically my livelihood, LOL), and don't really plan to, since I'm not hoping to be admitted to a research-intensive med school and I don't want to do research in my career.
So, that's me. Glad to be with y'all!