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I need help with this because I dont know how to fill this in my application.
I grew up in Pakistan, we lived in an urban area and have a house there which was not mortgaged when we bought it so we got to keep it.
My family business went broke and we lost everything- and i mean everything except the house. After that, My father slaved 10 hrs a day 6 days a week to make money to pay for 3 kids and a wife who was recovering from a terminal illness. My siblings And I couldn't even go to the doctor if we needed because we had no money. My fathers brother paid for our school education (there were no public schools im that city so we had to go to private school).
My mother started working when she recovered when I was 11 and i was forced to drop out of HS at 17 and work because there just wasn't enough money to buy food. My father lost his crappy job when i was 20, he sold his car to pay for my first yr of college until the bills piled up and i had to leave college and so did my younger sister so we could pay the bills. Dad got sick and his brother stopped helping so my younger sister and I paid for my youngest sibling to get thru HS.
At 23 i left pakistan and came to america- no money no papers and just worked and enrolled in state college to keep studying, gpa was very low 2.0 rose to 3.0 and again dropped. Now is 3.6.
For the finances: have no evidence of this because my parents are not us citizens and did not pay tax in the US so have no tax returns.
My gpa is rising now and i have my greencard, the situation is better but i still have 18 credits and a job. My grades sometimes suffer and i cant seem to get a 3.8-4.0 gpa no matter how hard I try because I can't stop working. I NEED to apply this cycle. At least i need to.
What can i do? Shall I give up on my dream? am I disadvantaged- economically? English isn't a problem-i speak really well and have been teaching it for years to pay the bills.
Do things like this need to be reported for DO and MD addmissions? A lot of people have told me only thoae with money get into schools even with low gpas, os that true? I'm not whining i just need advice and i need to know if i can get into medical school- ever...
I grew up in Pakistan, we lived in an urban area and have a house there which was not mortgaged when we bought it so we got to keep it.
My family business went broke and we lost everything- and i mean everything except the house. After that, My father slaved 10 hrs a day 6 days a week to make money to pay for 3 kids and a wife who was recovering from a terminal illness. My siblings And I couldn't even go to the doctor if we needed because we had no money. My fathers brother paid for our school education (there were no public schools im that city so we had to go to private school).
My mother started working when she recovered when I was 11 and i was forced to drop out of HS at 17 and work because there just wasn't enough money to buy food. My father lost his crappy job when i was 20, he sold his car to pay for my first yr of college until the bills piled up and i had to leave college and so did my younger sister so we could pay the bills. Dad got sick and his brother stopped helping so my younger sister and I paid for my youngest sibling to get thru HS.
At 23 i left pakistan and came to america- no money no papers and just worked and enrolled in state college to keep studying, gpa was very low 2.0 rose to 3.0 and again dropped. Now is 3.6.
For the finances: have no evidence of this because my parents are not us citizens and did not pay tax in the US so have no tax returns.
My gpa is rising now and i have my greencard, the situation is better but i still have 18 credits and a job. My grades sometimes suffer and i cant seem to get a 3.8-4.0 gpa no matter how hard I try because I can't stop working. I NEED to apply this cycle. At least i need to.
What can i do? Shall I give up on my dream? am I disadvantaged- economically? English isn't a problem-i speak really well and have been teaching it for years to pay the bills.
Do things like this need to be reported for DO and MD addmissions? A lot of people have told me only thoae with money get into schools even with low gpas, os that true? I'm not whining i just need advice and i need to know if i can get into medical school- ever...