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Probably writing this a bit prematurely but figured the earlier the better when it comes to valuable information.
I'm starting to feel uneasy about myself as a medical school candidate even though I am applying exclusively DO
No MCAT yet, will be taking it in May 2016 in order to (hopefully) begin medical school in Fall 2017.
Been to three separate Universities due to moving across the country, I now reside in Colorado though and want to attend Rocky Vista.
APPROXIMATE GPA when combining the 3 schools (and with grade replacement) is rougly a 3.75 with a sGPA probably around 3.4-3.5 at best (again these are approximations)
Now I am a Psych major and in a bachelor of SCIENCE program for it, and many of the classes while were labeled PSYC30xx or PSYC40xx were almost completely scientific in nature (dealing with the mechanism of drugs on specific regions of the body and brain, medications utilized and how they affect neuronal synapses and receptors). So could these POSSIBLY be part of sGPA if there is explanation involved??????
ECs are fairly cookie-cutter:
Shadowing an Internist,
Observing 36 surgeries with a Vascular Surgeon,
200 hrs volunteering in the ER, about
5 months volunteer in the Surgical pre-admission testing dept.
Certified English tutor
Former peer mentor (gave tours of school)
Psych club
Bio club
Taught kids to surf at free surf clinic.
Was home-schooled throughout high school and traveled and competed as a pro surfer (obviously before moving to Colorado)
Looking to get into research before applying
Nothing outstanding though; no 1000s of hours doing anything, no setting up clinics in 3rd world countries or donating a kidney to a random dying person like pre-meds claim they do.
I have Biochemistry and Physics 2 left, and am struggling hard in Physics 2 so I worry about that dropping my sGPA into the 3.2-3.3 category potentially. Just want to be a physician more than anything. MD is out of my league at this point due to grade replacements and some W's and Caribbean is absolutely end of the line resort. So DO is what I want.
Please any advice / words of wisdom????
I'm starting to feel uneasy about myself as a medical school candidate even though I am applying exclusively DO
No MCAT yet, will be taking it in May 2016 in order to (hopefully) begin medical school in Fall 2017.
Been to three separate Universities due to moving across the country, I now reside in Colorado though and want to attend Rocky Vista.
APPROXIMATE GPA when combining the 3 schools (and with grade replacement) is rougly a 3.75 with a sGPA probably around 3.4-3.5 at best (again these are approximations)
Now I am a Psych major and in a bachelor of SCIENCE program for it, and many of the classes while were labeled PSYC30xx or PSYC40xx were almost completely scientific in nature (dealing with the mechanism of drugs on specific regions of the body and brain, medications utilized and how they affect neuronal synapses and receptors). So could these POSSIBLY be part of sGPA if there is explanation involved??????
ECs are fairly cookie-cutter:
Shadowing an Internist,
Observing 36 surgeries with a Vascular Surgeon,
200 hrs volunteering in the ER, about
5 months volunteer in the Surgical pre-admission testing dept.
Certified English tutor
Former peer mentor (gave tours of school)
Psych club
Bio club
Taught kids to surf at free surf clinic.
Was home-schooled throughout high school and traveled and competed as a pro surfer (obviously before moving to Colorado)
Looking to get into research before applying
Nothing outstanding though; no 1000s of hours doing anything, no setting up clinics in 3rd world countries or donating a kidney to a random dying person like pre-meds claim they do.
I have Biochemistry and Physics 2 left, and am struggling hard in Physics 2 so I worry about that dropping my sGPA into the 3.2-3.3 category potentially. Just want to be a physician more than anything. MD is out of my league at this point due to grade replacements and some W's and Caribbean is absolutely end of the line resort. So DO is what I want.
Please any advice / words of wisdom????