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Hey Guys,
I was going to post in the 'What are my chances' MD thread, but really my fears and worries lie in my age, and I'm very much a non-trad. A little bit of quick background, I obtained 2 undergraduate degrees, I completed a Bachelors of Science, Biology, 18 years ago followed by a Nursing degree, 13 years ago. Both were 4 year agrees, but I've been working as a Nurse in many different disciplines in California for the past 8 years, including in ICU, Maternity and teaching for 2 semesters at a community college. My adventures as nurse even took me overseas to work East Asia. I do love my job as a nurse, but over the years I've always wanted to pursue an MD degree but timing was never right, life just happened. I met my husband, got married and we have 3 kids under 6 and after my youngest was born I decided it was time to try.
I'm currently 39 and I went back to university as a student starting in September of 2013. I've already taken most of these classes before, but it's been over 10 years so they needed to be redone anyway. But I took Chem 1 + 2, Physics 1 + 2, Biology 1, Cell Biology, Genetics, Anatomy 1 + 2, Orgo 1 + 2, BioChem, Psychology, Sociology, Calc 1 and Statistics. I'm currently wrapping up a first year English class since a lot of schools are asking for this. Through God's grace I was able to get A's in all of the classes but it was definitely challenging raising a family, being in school and working. But I've loved being back in school!!
I had an MCAT strategy from the start as well which was essentially to study for the MCAT and do as many questions as possible while taking classes and it resulted in doing well in the classes and getting a 39 on the MCAT. But again, until the test was done, I didn't sleep properly in over a year!
I didn't apply last year because almost all of the schools I was looking at had rolling admissions and I was nervous that I was applying too late and I wanted to have as many post-bacc classes done as possible. I'm going to be 40 this year, I have 2 degrees, over 10+ years of experience in healthcare, rocked all of the classes I took, an excellent MCAT score and going to be applying to a bunch of schools. Based on this little information . . but really given that I'm going to be 40 . . does anybody have any advice. One thing I have in my favor, is that I don't look 40, but I really worry about age discrimination. I've always been a workaholic and I told my husband that he can retire when he wants but I'm working till I'm 77! Every MD school I looked at didn't seem to have any students in the 40s these past few years and it bummed me out more . . but I've gotten this far and going to try, I was just wondering if there were certain schools that encourages non-trads . . and if anybody had any other advice.
Thank you for reading, I didn't intend for this post to get this long! Good luck to all those with the same passion!
I was going to post in the 'What are my chances' MD thread, but really my fears and worries lie in my age, and I'm very much a non-trad. A little bit of quick background, I obtained 2 undergraduate degrees, I completed a Bachelors of Science, Biology, 18 years ago followed by a Nursing degree, 13 years ago. Both were 4 year agrees, but I've been working as a Nurse in many different disciplines in California for the past 8 years, including in ICU, Maternity and teaching for 2 semesters at a community college. My adventures as nurse even took me overseas to work East Asia. I do love my job as a nurse, but over the years I've always wanted to pursue an MD degree but timing was never right, life just happened. I met my husband, got married and we have 3 kids under 6 and after my youngest was born I decided it was time to try.
I'm currently 39 and I went back to university as a student starting in September of 2013. I've already taken most of these classes before, but it's been over 10 years so they needed to be redone anyway. But I took Chem 1 + 2, Physics 1 + 2, Biology 1, Cell Biology, Genetics, Anatomy 1 + 2, Orgo 1 + 2, BioChem, Psychology, Sociology, Calc 1 and Statistics. I'm currently wrapping up a first year English class since a lot of schools are asking for this. Through God's grace I was able to get A's in all of the classes but it was definitely challenging raising a family, being in school and working. But I've loved being back in school!!
I had an MCAT strategy from the start as well which was essentially to study for the MCAT and do as many questions as possible while taking classes and it resulted in doing well in the classes and getting a 39 on the MCAT. But again, until the test was done, I didn't sleep properly in over a year!
I didn't apply last year because almost all of the schools I was looking at had rolling admissions and I was nervous that I was applying too late and I wanted to have as many post-bacc classes done as possible. I'm going to be 40 this year, I have 2 degrees, over 10+ years of experience in healthcare, rocked all of the classes I took, an excellent MCAT score and going to be applying to a bunch of schools. Based on this little information . . but really given that I'm going to be 40 . . does anybody have any advice. One thing I have in my favor, is that I don't look 40, but I really worry about age discrimination. I've always been a workaholic and I told my husband that he can retire when he wants but I'm working till I'm 77! Every MD school I looked at didn't seem to have any students in the 40s these past few years and it bummed me out more . . but I've gotten this far and going to try, I was just wondering if there were certain schools that encourages non-trads . . and if anybody had any other advice.
Thank you for reading, I didn't intend for this post to get this long! Good luck to all those with the same passion!