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Hey everyone,
I am new to this board and this is my first post, and well, I can't say I really know where to start, buuut here we go haha. I guess I'll give you all a little background info on myself before I start asking questions. I am currently about to enter my senior year as an Anthropology major at James Madison University in Virginia. Through reading and research that I've done on my own time I have recently become very interested in issues of health pertaining to the developing world. In the end I have decided that a career in medicine, with the hopes of practicing in developing countries, would be the most fulfilling path I could take with my life.
With this new path in mind I have begun looking at post-bac premed programs and was hoping to get some feedback from you all as to what my chances might be of getting into some of the top programs such as Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Scripps, Mills, etc. My academic past is a little complicated, so that's why I've decided to seek out some input on what my chances might be. Any help you could offer would be very appreciated.
Okay, to start with, my academic career has been a bit of a "journey" to say the least. I started with an epic trainwreck at Virginia Tech the first semester of my freshman year. I guess you could say that at the age of 18 I preferred drinking and chasing girls to going to class and at the end of the first semester I had a dazzling 1.5 GPA and proceeded to drop out. I spent the next two and a half years attending on and off at a community college, half assing my way through the curriculum, holding about a 3.2 GPA while still putting most of my energy into liver abuse.
Finally, I got my life under control and re-enrolled at Va Tech, earning a 3.8 GPA for a year there, before transferring to James Madison to major in Anthropology (Tech didn't have an Anth department). I've now spent a year at JMU with a 3.85 GPA and even won a school-sponsored scholarship for my senior year. My main question is...how much will my early screw up and lack-luster community college time hurt my chances of admittance to a good post-bac program?
I assume you all will want to know my EC stats as well and those involve being a member of the Red Cross Club at Va Tech for a year (the year I got a 3.8) where my duties involved organizing blood drives, recruiting donors, and helping out at donor sites. JMU didn't have anything like Red Cross Club, but I plan to to volunteer at either the downtown free clinic or the local Red Cross center this next year (hopefully for a month or two before applying to the post-bacs). I've also held part-time jobs the entire time I've been in school, working at least 15-20 hours a week.
Oh and I took the GRE this summer and choked a bit, scoring a 550 verbal, 690 quantitative. And this has turned into an epic novel haha. I apologize for that and thank anyone who has stuck it out to read the whole thing and could offer me some feedback. Thanks!
I am new to this board and this is my first post, and well, I can't say I really know where to start, buuut here we go haha. I guess I'll give you all a little background info on myself before I start asking questions. I am currently about to enter my senior year as an Anthropology major at James Madison University in Virginia. Through reading and research that I've done on my own time I have recently become very interested in issues of health pertaining to the developing world. In the end I have decided that a career in medicine, with the hopes of practicing in developing countries, would be the most fulfilling path I could take with my life.
With this new path in mind I have begun looking at post-bac premed programs and was hoping to get some feedback from you all as to what my chances might be of getting into some of the top programs such as Bryn Mawr, Goucher, Scripps, Mills, etc. My academic past is a little complicated, so that's why I've decided to seek out some input on what my chances might be. Any help you could offer would be very appreciated.
Okay, to start with, my academic career has been a bit of a "journey" to say the least. I started with an epic trainwreck at Virginia Tech the first semester of my freshman year. I guess you could say that at the age of 18 I preferred drinking and chasing girls to going to class and at the end of the first semester I had a dazzling 1.5 GPA and proceeded to drop out. I spent the next two and a half years attending on and off at a community college, half assing my way through the curriculum, holding about a 3.2 GPA while still putting most of my energy into liver abuse.
Finally, I got my life under control and re-enrolled at Va Tech, earning a 3.8 GPA for a year there, before transferring to James Madison to major in Anthropology (Tech didn't have an Anth department). I've now spent a year at JMU with a 3.85 GPA and even won a school-sponsored scholarship for my senior year. My main question is...how much will my early screw up and lack-luster community college time hurt my chances of admittance to a good post-bac program?
I assume you all will want to know my EC stats as well and those involve being a member of the Red Cross Club at Va Tech for a year (the year I got a 3.8) where my duties involved organizing blood drives, recruiting donors, and helping out at donor sites. JMU didn't have anything like Red Cross Club, but I plan to to volunteer at either the downtown free clinic or the local Red Cross center this next year (hopefully for a month or two before applying to the post-bacs). I've also held part-time jobs the entire time I've been in school, working at least 15-20 hours a week.
Oh and I took the GRE this summer and choked a bit, scoring a 550 verbal, 690 quantitative. And this has turned into an epic novel haha. I apologize for that and thank anyone who has stuck it out to read the whole thing and could offer me some feedback. Thanks!
