After high school i went to a juinor (community) college for 2 years beforw transfering to my current university. I originally wanted to do a doctorate of physical therapy program (3 year program post grad) so i just finished my first year of exercise science major. I recently decided though that i want to go into medicine and just changed my major to neuroscience. Im going into my juinor year, dont really have any shadowing or community servuce experience, feel out of the loop, etc. Did anyone go through anything like this? I feel very behind but it may all be in my mind
Does anyone else feel significantly behind?
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Hopefully your doin some of your EC's right now during the summer. This is the best time to do some.
Forgive me for being new, ECs are extra curriculars right? All im really doing is working 25 hours/week. I also compete in olympic weightlifting (not very good though on any kind of large scale) and i want to stary shadowing doctors as soon as possible. What kinds of things should i be doing?
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Yes EC's= extracurricular activities.
Well what you def need is some community service such as shelter work for example or some type of volunteer work in a health care setting, primarily with patient contact such as a hospital.
Shadowing is also recommended 40-60 hrs at the max.
If your scores are good, but your EC's are extremely weak which are as of now it will hurt you pretty bad.
Sounds good man. Also, a teacher recomended i read a book a week over the summer. Does anyone else do this? Its probably a good habit to pick up now, as well as looking up every word i stumble across that i dont know.
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idk about one a week, I don't have the time for that lol, but I'm about to start reading house of leaves on about fifty recommendations from friends, supposed to be scary haha
it's probably a good idea though, since you'd have read...~150-200 books (assuming you start this freshman year and didn't read at all in high school) by interview season -a common book interest among adcoms would be bound to come up
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I feel so effing behind. I haven't even taken Physics yet. Or Calculus. I have no upper level science courses either and I'm entering my Junior year. 🙁 I feel like I have such a long way to go but I just keep pushin' n' fightin'.
yea i feel a little behind too. im going into my junior year with no shadowing and a very little, insignificant amount of volunteering. im also just now about to take o chem and physics. but other than that im on track. YES we have to keep pushin and fightin
also, if you feel like you wont be able to catch up consider applying a year late aka your senior year instead of junior year, it may be worth it.
also, if you feel like you wont be able to catch up consider applying a year late aka your senior year instead of junior year, it may be worth it.
Hospice provides good opportunities for direct patient contact. Try to see if there's hospice or end-of-life care clinic somewhere near where you live!
Not personally. I think I am pretty average as far as timing goes. However, at the Children's hospital I volunteer with a stockbroker in his late-30s that is in the process of taking prereqs for medical school. Don't sweat it.
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i have no research exp either it's hard as crap to find some that doesn't involve glass blowing/cleaning and picking up scraps of dead animal testes.
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Yeah I feel the same.
I started at one school and then changed my major twice. Then I transferred to a school with a better program and about a third of the cost.
After transferring and getting into the industry I was majoring in, I hated it and switched two more times. I ended up withdrawing from on semester and then my dad was diagnosed with cancer. After realizing I hated this major as well, trying to mend my relationship with my dad and working 60 hours a week to pay my bills, I failed all of my classes.
Now I've decided to go to med school. Something I've always wanted but was scared off by the time commitment. I'm looking at my schedule and taking 17 hours a semester, it will take three years to graduate if I go during summers.
So after three years of undergrad, I'm heading towards 8 semesters more in which I need to make all A's to repair my GPA which was never a concern before. I will still be working 60 hours a week and trying to fit in research, shadowing and MCAT studying. Overwhelming but worth it.
I started at one school and then changed my major twice. Then I transferred to a school with a better program and about a third of the cost.
After transferring and getting into the industry I was majoring in, I hated it and switched two more times. I ended up withdrawing from on semester and then my dad was diagnosed with cancer. After realizing I hated this major as well, trying to mend my relationship with my dad and working 60 hours a week to pay my bills, I failed all of my classes.
Now I've decided to go to med school. Something I've always wanted but was scared off by the time commitment. I'm looking at my schedule and taking 17 hours a semester, it will take three years to graduate if I go during summers.
So after three years of undergrad, I'm heading towards 8 semesters more in which I need to make all A's to repair my GPA which was never a concern before. I will still be working 60 hours a week and trying to fit in research, shadowing and MCAT studying. Overwhelming but worth it.
- I don't have my LORs in tact.
- I'm behind in Physics II.
- I haven't started on my Personal Statement.
- I haven't started to think about my 15 things.
- I haven't shadowed a PCP or hospital.
- I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
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