I am a spring semester senior at a top 50 school.
cGPA 3.65 sGPA ~3.40
MCAT taking in April
My clinical experience consists of ~100 hours in an ER enrolling patients in clinical studies as part of a class.
Over the past three summers, I have worked 40 hours a week for a local police department enforcing town codes and ordinances. Whenever there was a medical call in town, I would usually go to it with an EMT and provided any help I could usually this would consist of removing the stretcher from the ambulance.
I have served as the vice-president of my fraternity for my semester and various other leadership positions within the fraternity.
I served as vice-president of my junior year dorm council.
I am currently taking an EMT class and as part of that I will work in the ER for 16 hours and ride with a fire department for a dozen or so hours.
Anyways, my school's committee packet is due 2/22. I have been freaking out about it because I know my ECs and LORs are going to be incredibly weak. I honestly haven't had much interaction with my professors through out my 3.5 years, so these letters are going to be bad. I spoke with my Biochem professor today and he basically said that he doesn't know me but could write a short, generic letter explaining the difficulty of his class I need a last resort.
My plan has always been to take a gap year and apply mostly to DO schools, but I have come to the conclusion that I am just not going to be able to complete this committee letter. I now am considering taking a second gap year.
Has anyone else done a second gap year? What should I do during that two year timeframe? If I actually try to foster a relationship with a few of my professors this semester and get good LORs, will medical schools look down upon that my recommendation letters came from the same semester? How screwed am I?
cGPA 3.65 sGPA ~3.40
MCAT taking in April
My clinical experience consists of ~100 hours in an ER enrolling patients in clinical studies as part of a class.
Over the past three summers, I have worked 40 hours a week for a local police department enforcing town codes and ordinances. Whenever there was a medical call in town, I would usually go to it with an EMT and provided any help I could usually this would consist of removing the stretcher from the ambulance.
I have served as the vice-president of my fraternity for my semester and various other leadership positions within the fraternity.
I served as vice-president of my junior year dorm council.
I am currently taking an EMT class and as part of that I will work in the ER for 16 hours and ride with a fire department for a dozen or so hours.
Anyways, my school's committee packet is due 2/22. I have been freaking out about it because I know my ECs and LORs are going to be incredibly weak. I honestly haven't had much interaction with my professors through out my 3.5 years, so these letters are going to be bad. I spoke with my Biochem professor today and he basically said that he doesn't know me but could write a short, generic letter explaining the difficulty of his class I need a last resort.
My plan has always been to take a gap year and apply mostly to DO schools, but I have come to the conclusion that I am just not going to be able to complete this committee letter. I now am considering taking a second gap year.
Has anyone else done a second gap year? What should I do during that two year timeframe? If I actually try to foster a relationship with a few of my professors this semester and get good LORs, will medical schools look down upon that my recommendation letters came from the same semester? How screwed am I?