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Hello everyone, this is my first post so please have some leniency with me!
Background: Hispanic, Male. I'm currently at my first/second year at a CC in CA. I say first/second because my first semester in 2013, I received 2 F's, and 2 W's. I received an F in Health and in Sociology 102. This put me on Academic Probation (now I am in good standing). I (obviously) was not ready or mature enough for College and decided to take the next semester off.
The reason for these terrible life decisions were from lack of motivation/self-worth and I just did not know whether I wanted to go to college or not. During this time I was also working full-time, and I prioritized that over my education.
Thankfully, I really learned from those series of unfortunate events, and I've grown so much in just a little over a year. I realized that I wanted to be educated and successful.
During the summer of last year, I took two courses which I received A's in. One of them was Health, and this introduced me to health and medicine. I became really interested in healthcare and decided I wanted to go to MD school. I also had an arthroscopic meniscus repair during this time and my relationship with my physician further interested me in a medicine. I want to be able to help people get back to what they love to do, just like my physician did for me.
Since then, I have brought my GPA back up to a 3.8.
This semester is over in 3 weeks, and I'm hopefully going to pull a 4.0.
After this semester, I will have my first Biology prereq completed. I plan to take two classes over the summer for transfer requirements.
I would like to transfer to a UC for Anthropology, preferably UCD, but I will apply to UCD, UCSD, UCLA, UCI, my question here is if there is anyone here who goes or has gone to these schools and what are your recommendations?
I plan to take chem 1/bio 2 fall semester of this year; should I complete all of the prereqs at CC except org 1/2 and physics 1/2?
If I continue this upward trend, what are my chances of getting into an allopathic school?
I also just started to volunteer, any other insight is welcome on what else I should be doing!
Thanks.
Background: Hispanic, Male. I'm currently at my first/second year at a CC in CA. I say first/second because my first semester in 2013, I received 2 F's, and 2 W's. I received an F in Health and in Sociology 102. This put me on Academic Probation (now I am in good standing). I (obviously) was not ready or mature enough for College and decided to take the next semester off.
The reason for these terrible life decisions were from lack of motivation/self-worth and I just did not know whether I wanted to go to college or not. During this time I was also working full-time, and I prioritized that over my education.
Thankfully, I really learned from those series of unfortunate events, and I've grown so much in just a little over a year. I realized that I wanted to be educated and successful.
During the summer of last year, I took two courses which I received A's in. One of them was Health, and this introduced me to health and medicine. I became really interested in healthcare and decided I wanted to go to MD school. I also had an arthroscopic meniscus repair during this time and my relationship with my physician further interested me in a medicine. I want to be able to help people get back to what they love to do, just like my physician did for me.
Since then, I have brought my GPA back up to a 3.8.
This semester is over in 3 weeks, and I'm hopefully going to pull a 4.0.
After this semester, I will have my first Biology prereq completed. I plan to take two classes over the summer for transfer requirements.
I would like to transfer to a UC for Anthropology, preferably UCD, but I will apply to UCD, UCSD, UCLA, UCI, my question here is if there is anyone here who goes or has gone to these schools and what are your recommendations?
I plan to take chem 1/bio 2 fall semester of this year; should I complete all of the prereqs at CC except org 1/2 and physics 1/2?
If I continue this upward trend, what are my chances of getting into an allopathic school?
I also just started to volunteer, any other insight is welcome on what else I should be doing!
Thanks.
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