Basalganglia4life
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So I am 30 y/o non trad preparing to submit this cycle. I reached out to my old university and discovered that they still have an alcohol IA on file from when I was 18.
The long and short of it is I was caught by a cop stumbling home drunk after a college party when I was 18. The police notified the school and I was placed on a 6 month probation. I never got any other type of conduct violation.
I spoke to my school and they refuse to expunge the IA. Even if they did though it sounds like I’d still have to report it.
My question:
How much is this going to set back my application? I would hope that schools wouldn’t use a poor decision I made as an 18-year-old against me. My worry is that many school’s algorithm will flag my application and it will never even be read. Anyone have any insight on this?
Some more info about me:
White male from CA
Undergrad cGPA 3.0 (in Environmental Studies).
CC Post Bac GPA 4.0.(94 units)
Overall cGPA: 3.48.
Overall AMCAS sGPA 3.504. Overall AACOMAS sGPA 3.612
MCAT: 520 -131/128/130/131 (9/8/23)
Ecs
2500 hours EMT
500 hours volunteering with council member
100 hours with org that gives medical care to homeless
800 hrs (ongoing) orgo wet lab research (no pubs)
30hr shadowing
1000hrs tutoring
4500hrs managing a foodbank
500hrs study abroad tutoring refugees in Ghana
The long and short of it is I was caught by a cop stumbling home drunk after a college party when I was 18. The police notified the school and I was placed on a 6 month probation. I never got any other type of conduct violation.
I spoke to my school and they refuse to expunge the IA. Even if they did though it sounds like I’d still have to report it.
My question:
How much is this going to set back my application? I would hope that schools wouldn’t use a poor decision I made as an 18-year-old against me. My worry is that many school’s algorithm will flag my application and it will never even be read. Anyone have any insight on this?
Some more info about me:
White male from CA
Undergrad cGPA 3.0 (in Environmental Studies).
CC Post Bac GPA 4.0.(94 units)
Overall cGPA: 3.48.
Overall AMCAS sGPA 3.504. Overall AACOMAS sGPA 3.612
MCAT: 520 -131/128/130/131 (9/8/23)
Ecs
2500 hours EMT
500 hours volunteering with council member
100 hours with org that gives medical care to homeless
800 hrs (ongoing) orgo wet lab research (no pubs)
30hr shadowing
1000hrs tutoring
4500hrs managing a foodbank
500hrs study abroad tutoring refugees in Ghana
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