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Hi everyone. I am thinking about applying soon. I don't have a great GPA (3.1) and I haven't taken the MCATs yet but I am hopeful. I have pretty good ECs. Anyway I was thinking about applying as disadvantaged. I feel like I am disadvantaged compared to other applicants and definitely with people I know at my university since they are upper middle class at least. My story is like this: My parents had me when they were about 19. My mother had graduated from high school (the only person in her family to) but my father didn't even finish high school. This is common in the neighborhood I live in where there is a lot of drug problems and teenage pregnancy. My parents did not have jobs so we stayed with my grandmother, my father's mother. My parents split up soon after. My dad lived with us until I was in middle school maybe but I would say basically my grandmother raised me. I am 21 and I have been living with her since. She is the sole reason I am able to go to college. I get a bunch of financial aid but she pays the rest with money she has saved up over the years. This woman is phenomenal. I was wondering if this is considered disadvantaged because of the environment I have lived in and because of financial reasons. Also, with disadvantaged applicants would a lower GPA be criticized less?
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