Am I a Non-Trad?

[MDRus]

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this is my first time reading this forum. i usually (by that i mean 4 hours per day) read the pre-allo.

i graduated from college in 2005. Had been per-med until end of sophomore year when i realized it was ruining my college experience. after college went overseas to a third world country and volunteered in a hospital, shadowed in the ER and OR. came back excited about medicine, finished prereqs in a post bac program. took MCATS twice. waited to apply until i had all my ducks in a row. have worked 2 years in research.

will schools consider me a non-trad? is that good or bad?

(i have 33S in MCAT; 3.47 GPA from an ivy league school; 3.9 post-bac GPA.)

 

[Law2Doc]

this is my first time reading this forum. i usually (by that i mean 4 hours per day) read the pre-allo.

i graduated from college in 2005. Had been per-med until end of sophomore year when i realized it was ruining my college experience. after college went overseas to a third world country and volunteered in a hospital, shadowed in the ER and OR. came back excited about medicine, finished prereqs in a post bac program. took MCATS twice. waited to apply until i had all my ducks in a row. have worked 2 years in research.

will schools consider me a non-trad? is that good or bad?

(i have 33S in MCAT; 3.47 GPA from an ivy league school; 3.9 post-bac GPA.)

Nontrad just means that you aren't going straight from college to med school, for whatever reason. Med schools do not differentiate trad vs nontrad, but may take into account age and experiences.