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I am a 28 years old nontraditional student pursuing a career in medicine. I have a complex academic history and I will try my best to explain this. I was a college dropout, dropping out of community college at 22 years old. I was a premed student initially pursing medicine. However, I was not matured, focused, and engaged to my education as I was more focus on having fun and pursing other hobbies that was detriment to my time to study. During my 4 years there, I took most of the medical school prerequisites such as general biology, general chemistry, general physics, math, genetics, and organic chemistry. However, I either got C's or fail and then get a C's retaking second time for all of those classes. My GPA was a complete failure with 1.8 cGPA and 1.6 sGPA. I eventually drop out to work on my maturity and refocusing my life.
During the time when I was trying to get my life together, I have a sudden, life altering experience that change my mindset and perspective completely. I will not share the stories with you here as it was very complicated and it put me depress and suicidal for two years. During my road to recovery, I took the time to volunteer at a local hospital and hospices assisting nurses and interacting with patients. I met many wonderful people there within and outside of hospitals and from that point, I realized my passions for helping others and interests in medicine. I got my act together and decide to go for it again. I took another year in community college doing just enough to transfer to an university to pursue a Bachelors.
Now in the present, I just complete a Bachelor in Science for Chemistry. I did okay getting obtaining 3.1 cGPA with a 3.2 sGPA (only took upper division chemistry). My overall GPA turned out to be a 2.5 cGPA with a 2.4 sGPA. This overall GPA was with 7 years full time courses and I have accumulated too many units.
Now lies a big problem for my end. I know I will not be able to get over 3.0 GPA anytime soon. From my GPA, I would have to get 4+ years straight A's to get close to that minimum GPA. So I know I will not be able to recover from my GPA perspective, but I was hoping the other parts of the application will help me out. I have a 3 years plan hoping to get into medical school someday.
I was planning to retake all my prerequisite that I got a C's at a local university and get at least A's. This means retaking both general biology classes, genetics, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics which is 11 classes there. In addition, I would take biochemistry and upper biology courses which consist additional 6-8 courses. By planning out my schedule, that would take additional 2 years if I go back to school full time. On top of it , I would have work full time and if this is pushing it, maybe get into research.
Also, on the second year, I would study for MCAT and need to kill it hoping to get into a SMP program or maybe a medical school that reward intervention.
Granted, this may take 3 additional years to complete it, but I am willing to do any necessary tasks to get into this dream career. I was wondering with what I have laid out be a feasible plans. Also, what other tweaks or improvements should I make? How important is research? Also, have anyone experiences something similar like this before? Lastly, any advice would help. Thank you.
I am a 28 years old nontraditional student pursuing a career in medicine. I have a complex academic history and I will try my best to explain this. I was a college dropout, dropping out of community college at 22 years old. I was a premed student initially pursing medicine. However, I was not matured, focused, and engaged to my education as I was more focus on having fun and pursing other hobbies that was detriment to my time to study. During my 4 years there, I took most of the medical school prerequisites such as general biology, general chemistry, general physics, math, genetics, and organic chemistry. However, I either got C's or fail and then get a C's retaking second time for all of those classes. My GPA was a complete failure with 1.8 cGPA and 1.6 sGPA. I eventually drop out to work on my maturity and refocusing my life.
During the time when I was trying to get my life together, I have a sudden, life altering experience that change my mindset and perspective completely. I will not share the stories with you here as it was very complicated and it put me depress and suicidal for two years. During my road to recovery, I took the time to volunteer at a local hospital and hospices assisting nurses and interacting with patients. I met many wonderful people there within and outside of hospitals and from that point, I realized my passions for helping others and interests in medicine. I got my act together and decide to go for it again. I took another year in community college doing just enough to transfer to an university to pursue a Bachelors.
Now in the present, I just complete a Bachelor in Science for Chemistry. I did okay getting obtaining 3.1 cGPA with a 3.2 sGPA (only took upper division chemistry). My overall GPA turned out to be a 2.5 cGPA with a 2.4 sGPA. This overall GPA was with 7 years full time courses and I have accumulated too many units.
Now lies a big problem for my end. I know I will not be able to get over 3.0 GPA anytime soon. From my GPA, I would have to get 4+ years straight A's to get close to that minimum GPA. So I know I will not be able to recover from my GPA perspective, but I was hoping the other parts of the application will help me out. I have a 3 years plan hoping to get into medical school someday.
I was planning to retake all my prerequisite that I got a C's at a local university and get at least A's. This means retaking both general biology classes, genetics, general chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics which is 11 classes there. In addition, I would take biochemistry and upper biology courses which consist additional 6-8 courses. By planning out my schedule, that would take additional 2 years if I go back to school full time. On top of it , I would have work full time and if this is pushing it, maybe get into research.
Also, on the second year, I would study for MCAT and need to kill it hoping to get into a SMP program or maybe a medical school that reward intervention.
Granted, this may take 3 additional years to complete it, but I am willing to do any necessary tasks to get into this dream career. I was wondering with what I have laid out be a feasible plans. Also, what other tweaks or improvements should I make? How important is research? Also, have anyone experiences something similar like this before? Lastly, any advice would help. Thank you.