2nd Reject from post baccalaureate :(

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I received my second rejection today via email from UVM post baccalaureate program. My first was from USC, earlier this fall. The mail stated the same reason as the USC one did, low science gpa. I only took a few science classes and that was over 10 years ago. I'm apprehensive to apply anywhere else. It's so frustrating because I want to be a psychiatrist more than anything. There's no way I'm staying in this hell hole state I live, so taking the courses at a local state university is out of the question. This year has been such a nightmare all around. 🙁
 
I received my second rejection today via email from UVM post baccalaureate program. My first was from USC, earlier this fall. The mail stated the same reason as the USC one did, low science gpa. I only took a few science classes and that was over 10 years ago. I'm apprehensive to apply anywhere else. It's so frustrating because I want to be a psychiatrist more than anything. There's no way I'm staying in this hell hole state I live, so taking the courses at a local state university is out of the question. This year has been such a nightmare all around. 🙁

I mainly applied to DO school post bac programs so far, and I have received one rejection so far. One waitlist, and one yet to hear from. I also plan on applying to a few more programs. So don't give up!
 
I received my second rejection today via email from UVM post baccalaureate program. My first was from USC, earlier this fall. The mail stated the same reason as the USC one did, low science gpa. I only took a few science classes and that was over 10 years ago. I'm apprehensive to apply anywhere else. It's so frustrating because I want to be a psychiatrist more than anything. There's no way I'm staying in this hell hole state I live, so taking the courses at a local state university is out of the question. This year has been such a nightmare all around. 🙁


YOU CANNOT GIVE UP!! even if it takes u staying in the state u are in to take classes at the local university please do! you are still ahead of the application process so there is more schools you can apply to.

JUST DONT GIVE UP!
 
Apply to more programs! I'm shocked you only applied to 2 programs. I know people that applied to like 15 programs...

Rejection happens to even the best, but you should always have a broad range of choices and apply for as much stuff as you can all the time. I try to submit at least 2 applications for something a week (essay competitions/research funding/all-expenses paid fellowships/conferences)... it's much easier to turn something down than wish you had gone back and applied

Also, ask for fee waivers if an application costs money. If you have a low science GPA - try taking an online course in Science, any science, to at least get a start on fixing it.
 
I received my second rejection today via email from UVM post baccalaureate program. My first was from USC, earlier this fall. The mail stated the same reason as the USC one did, low science gpa. I only took a few science classes and that was over 10 years ago. I'm apprehensive to apply anywhere else. It's so frustrating because I want to be a psychiatrist more than anything. There's no way I'm staying in this hell hole state I live, so taking the courses at a local state university is out of the question. This year has been such a nightmare all around. 🙁
So you're saying you want:
1. to get out of where you are
2. to go to med school

Nobody's stopping you from #1.

You don't get to set the terms of #2. Prestigious premed programs are not going to take a risk on a student who looks like they struggled with science before. Because premed is science. Because you don't get time in a rigorous premed program to learn how to be a good science student. Prestigious premed programs have way too many applicants to give risky applicants the time of day. You're up against a horde of kids with 4.0's in their liberal arts degrees. The people between you and your dream to be a psychiatrist are completely baffled by the left half of the GPA bell curve.

Now, maybe your goal list also has these on it:
3. to be on the usual premed path of prestige
4. to get somewhere with this premed thing pretty quickly

...and those aren't realistic, because with GPA damage you don't get to be on the quick prestigious path. You might end up being able to work your way onto a prestigious path, such as a US MD school and killer Step scores and a good psych match. But I suggest you're not starting med school for 3-4 years, depending on your GPA damage.

So maybe consider this:
A. Pick a place you want to live and work for a few years.
B. Go live and work there.
C. As an almost completely separate thing, in that new place, start taking some classes.
D. Get A's, in reasonably hard classes, including some science, preferably at a university, for a nontrivial period of time.
E. When you have built a traditionally compelling transcript that makes you look like a premed, then consider the next step.

How I'd personally go about this: pick a town or two, get on Craigslist, look at what it costs to live there such as in a room in a shared house/apartment, look what I don't have now that I would need in that town such as a car, see if the parents will help such as with health insurance or startup money, and MOVE. Then get a job at a Starbucks or similar not because I want a career at Starbucks but because I need income and references to get a better job. Maybe take one class at a community college and get an A in one reasonably hard class like pre-calculus, and if I can't get an A stop taking classes and regroup because without A's this whole med school thing isn't going to happen. After about six months at Starbucks or similar work the angles to get an on-campus job at the university where I want to take most of my GPA Redemption classes, so that I have registration priority and tuition assistance. Then over the next couple years, work, be a responsible adult who doesn't flake out when things get hard, take as many classes as I can and get A's because every grade that isn't an A is a step away from med school. Maybe trade up from a mailroom/helpdesk/minimum wage job on campus to a lab assistant glassware-washing job to get closer to the faculty and start building a science resume, and if I'm really lucky, start working on some actual science. (Meanwhile be as young as fabulous as possible, fall in love, go to a lot of live music festivals, travel, etc.)

AND THEN when my new transcript will reasonably convince an admissions committee that I should be allowed entry to a program such as a structured postbac, or a second bachelors in something like biochemistry, or a rigorous traditional masters where I can get pubs, or an SMP, THEN apply.

Usually this package of advice, which I've been giving for 10 years now, which I pretty much followed myself after educating myself on SDN, which was really hard and expensive and frequently miserable, this advice makes people really, really mad. Because people feel like I'm judging them maybe? If the above makes you mad or sad or whatever, sure, feel mad or sad or whatever. This stuff is really hard and frustrating. But how you feel about your capabilities and your dreams and maybe your ego has to be a separate thing from what you actually need to do, and maybe who you actually need to become, for your dream to be realistic and not the equivalent of an 8 year old obsessed with unicorns.

Best of luck to you.
 
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