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I'm a senior majoring in biochem at a decent university, taking a gap year.
cGPA: 3.56 (likely to drop this semester, probably a 3.5 at the lowest)
MCAT: 34 (BS:12 11 11)
ECs:
5 years (summers/winters) at the health effects division of EPA (reviews animals studies and sets guidelines for safe levels of a particular chemical)
4 semesters research in a pathology lab
1 semester as a peer teacher in an intro bio lab course
2 semesters language conversation partner (I speak chinese with people who are trying to learn)
3 semesters, founding member of a club dedicated to raising money for a local hospice
~10 hours working with the patients at the hospice
~20 hours volunteering at an elementary school
Shadowing:
if it all goes as planned I should have about 40+ hrs of shadowing before June 1st.
I am here because I don't know what steps I should take next to increase my chances of getting accepted into an MD program. I realize I am lacking in terms of clinical exposure, and plan on building on that for a bit this gap year I am taking - either through volunteer work at a clinic or volunteer work at a hospital. It's a bit hard to calculate the volunteer hours I have done since I didn't really record the hours I put in that weren't done through the school's volunteer org.
My main concern is a rather sticky situation where I got accused for sharing answers (or something like that, after 2 appeals they still have yet to explain the situation to me clearly) and ended up with a D+ in the class. However, since no formal report was submitted (besides my professor's own adamant stance on how I was guilty) it is just a bad grade on my transcript. Any advice on how to address this at an interview? (I don't want to confront the professor anymore, this event happened almost 2 years ago and basically broke my trust in people and caused me a whole lot of depression and angst- took me a while to get over it.)
I'm currently juggling the options of a:
-post bac (which may not be justified, my GPA isn't great, but it's not horrible),
-going through a teaching program to become a teacher for a year (I only volunteered one semester in college, but spent a lot of time working with children in highschool, and would love to teach science)
-simply going back to the government agency (Least appealing, while the people are great the work is boring, though financially viable)
just taking a year off to explore my artistic side; finally get around to learning piano, get some travelling in, just seeing the world as a 22 year old.
Naturally, I'll be volunteering/shadowing on the side, as much as possible. What would be the better choice?
Thanks for taking the time out to read this; I would appreciate any and all feedback.
cGPA: 3.56 (likely to drop this semester, probably a 3.5 at the lowest)
MCAT: 34 (BS:12 11 11)
ECs:
5 years (summers/winters) at the health effects division of EPA (reviews animals studies and sets guidelines for safe levels of a particular chemical)
4 semesters research in a pathology lab
1 semester as a peer teacher in an intro bio lab course
2 semesters language conversation partner (I speak chinese with people who are trying to learn)
3 semesters, founding member of a club dedicated to raising money for a local hospice
~10 hours working with the patients at the hospice
~20 hours volunteering at an elementary school
Shadowing:
if it all goes as planned I should have about 40+ hrs of shadowing before June 1st.
I am here because I don't know what steps I should take next to increase my chances of getting accepted into an MD program. I realize I am lacking in terms of clinical exposure, and plan on building on that for a bit this gap year I am taking - either through volunteer work at a clinic or volunteer work at a hospital. It's a bit hard to calculate the volunteer hours I have done since I didn't really record the hours I put in that weren't done through the school's volunteer org.
My main concern is a rather sticky situation where I got accused for sharing answers (or something like that, after 2 appeals they still have yet to explain the situation to me clearly) and ended up with a D+ in the class. However, since no formal report was submitted (besides my professor's own adamant stance on how I was guilty) it is just a bad grade on my transcript. Any advice on how to address this at an interview? (I don't want to confront the professor anymore, this event happened almost 2 years ago and basically broke my trust in people and caused me a whole lot of depression and angst- took me a while to get over it.)
I'm currently juggling the options of a:
-post bac (which may not be justified, my GPA isn't great, but it's not horrible),
-going through a teaching program to become a teacher for a year (I only volunteered one semester in college, but spent a lot of time working with children in highschool, and would love to teach science)
-simply going back to the government agency (Least appealing, while the people are great the work is boring, though financially viable)
just taking a year off to explore my artistic side; finally get around to learning piano, get some travelling in, just seeing the world as a 22 year old.
Naturally, I'll be volunteering/shadowing on the side, as much as possible. What would be the better choice?
Thanks for taking the time out to read this; I would appreciate any and all feedback.