Hey guys.
So my situation is quite different from a traditional student.
The application asks "Explain below why you believe you should be considered a disadvantaged applicant by your designated medical schools."
I moved to US when I was 11. So I was becoming older. When I moved it was a whole game changer. Didn't really know my parents because my mom moved when I was young, and remarried. Didn't have any friends. Knew school only English. When it asked for the income for the majority of my childhood I didn't know what to choose because when I lived outside of US, I lived with my grandmother. But she wasn't working, had a pension and my mom was helping us out.
The financial issues we had in my home country were bad enough to split my mom and dad when I was 2. In the US my mom remarried. But then my father had kidney transplant in my summer from highschool to undergrad. So he couldn't work. So my mom did all she could. But obviously it was very difficult because it was a whole change in the life style.
So I'm not sure how to approach this situation because I included this part of my personal statement.
I know I didn't have to live in foster homes, and had money for food, but it's not like I lived like a queen. You know what I'm saying? It was just a lot of stress going on all the time. And I didn't work on the books per say. Haven't really told this to anyone but might as well, my mother does house cleaning and now has a relatively smallish business going on. So how I worked to support my family is help my mom clean houses whenever I had free time - that's why my mom didn't want me to go to a store and get a job because with me, we could make a bit more money faster. (Which was very difficult for my mom to do since she has an MD degree in home country but MDs were NOT paid well in those times - a lot of bribes and it went by who knew who and she somehow won a green card and moved here because that is how she could support me and her mother)
So my situation is quite different from a traditional student.
The application asks "Explain below why you believe you should be considered a disadvantaged applicant by your designated medical schools."
I moved to US when I was 11. So I was becoming older. When I moved it was a whole game changer. Didn't really know my parents because my mom moved when I was young, and remarried. Didn't have any friends. Knew school only English. When it asked for the income for the majority of my childhood I didn't know what to choose because when I lived outside of US, I lived with my grandmother. But she wasn't working, had a pension and my mom was helping us out.
The financial issues we had in my home country were bad enough to split my mom and dad when I was 2. In the US my mom remarried. But then my father had kidney transplant in my summer from highschool to undergrad. So he couldn't work. So my mom did all she could. But obviously it was very difficult because it was a whole change in the life style.
So I'm not sure how to approach this situation because I included this part of my personal statement.
I know I didn't have to live in foster homes, and had money for food, but it's not like I lived like a queen. You know what I'm saying? It was just a lot of stress going on all the time. And I didn't work on the books per say. Haven't really told this to anyone but might as well, my mother does house cleaning and now has a relatively smallish business going on. So how I worked to support my family is help my mom clean houses whenever I had free time - that's why my mom didn't want me to go to a store and get a job because with me, we could make a bit more money faster. (Which was very difficult for my mom to do since she has an MD degree in home country but MDs were NOT paid well in those times - a lot of bribes and it went by who knew who and she somehow won a green card and moved here because that is how she could support me and her mother)
