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You failed to take step 1 after M2 when you should have, and then you failed to take it by a known deadline that you had at least a year to meet. In your year off, you pursued activities that were not significantly involved in your medical education (eg: travel significantly, versus doing research or getting an MPH). Furthermore, in past posts you write negative, publicly available comments about your school. From the school's perspective, you should have already taken your test, so any event that caused it to be even further delayed is irrelevant (and you should not use it as an excuse).
According to online articles that claim to interview you, they state "he enrolled in medical school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, but after two years began to lose interest, he said. He was considering switching to homeopathic medicine and traveled to Pakistan partly to explore continuing his medical studies there." I'm not going to post the news article here to keep your name semi-private.
Your best shot would be to re-enroll at your existing school, but it seems like you may have burned bridges there. If you cannot at least secure positive references from your school (for instance, from the Dean of Students), you don't have a significant chance at getting into another school.
If I were you, I would attempt to schedule an interview with the admissions dean/ dean of students. You should shave, get a haircut, put on a suit and consider this an interview for admission. Your goal is to convince them that you will cause no other problems and will be a perfect student for the 2 years you have left. Your secondary goal is to convince them to be a positive reference if you are forced to look into other medical schools.
If you cannot transfer, you may have the option to start over (year 1) at a DO school, but I am unfamiliar with those requirements. Alternatively, you could consider PA school or a nursing/NP/CRNA route if you want to still be involved in healthcare [and these careers still pay very well]. Obviously, all these routes still require years of schooling. You may want to prepare applications to more than one of these options to limit your chances of your loans sitting around, because I doubt you want to go another cycle without being part of a school.
The General Residency forum has many posts by people dismissed from residency, and some of that advice could be useful to you (how to present yourself when you talk to your school).
According to online articles that claim to interview you, they state "he enrolled in medical school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, but after two years began to lose interest, he said. He was considering switching to homeopathic medicine and traveled to Pakistan partly to explore continuing his medical studies there." I'm not going to post the news article here to keep your name semi-private.
Your best shot would be to re-enroll at your existing school, but it seems like you may have burned bridges there. If you cannot at least secure positive references from your school (for instance, from the Dean of Students), you don't have a significant chance at getting into another school.
If I were you, I would attempt to schedule an interview with the admissions dean/ dean of students. You should shave, get a haircut, put on a suit and consider this an interview for admission. Your goal is to convince them that you will cause no other problems and will be a perfect student for the 2 years you have left. Your secondary goal is to convince them to be a positive reference if you are forced to look into other medical schools.
If you cannot transfer, you may have the option to start over (year 1) at a DO school, but I am unfamiliar with those requirements. Alternatively, you could consider PA school or a nursing/NP/CRNA route if you want to still be involved in healthcare [and these careers still pay very well]. Obviously, all these routes still require years of schooling. You may want to prepare applications to more than one of these options to limit your chances of your loans sitting around, because I doubt you want to go another cycle without being part of a school.
The General Residency forum has many posts by people dismissed from residency, and some of that advice could be useful to you (how to present yourself when you talk to your school).
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yes you are.
