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Ok, so I did this a while ago when I joined the site and now I am getting to the point where I will be applying to school in May and I would like some feedback.
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- I am a 27 year old male, married and have 2 kids.
- I started school when I was 21, got a 2.0 GPA and dropped out after 3 semesters being a business major.
- During my break, my 2 kids came along and I worked for a large bank for about 3 years.
- Decided to go back to school, possibly for Dental b/c that was what a friend was doing and it sounded interesting.
- Worked full time (40+ hrs) while attended school (13 - 15 credit hrs per semester).
- Got a job as a "scribe" at a hospital and started to love medicine. Started working 55+ hrs total w/2 jobs and full semesters at school. (plus the kids and wife at home).
- My grades weren't great (my own fault at doing too much) but I have survived the 3.0 threshold.
Overall Stats:
3.1 overall GPA (including the 2.0 from earlier years)
3.15 Science
1500+ hrs as a scribe
800+ hrs of service (hrs do not include 6 months English teaching in Brazil)
Watched/Scrubbed in on multiple surgeries including stents, appy's etc...
Will have great LOR's from both DO and MD's from the ED.
Arizona Resident
I have not taken my MCAT yet and would like feedback on that also on what I should aim for. I have no preference on MD/DO and am only looking at a few MD schools (Oregon, UofA, New York Medical College, and a few others).
My logical choice would be AT Still in AZ b/c it's 2 mins from our house but I kind of want to leave AZ.
Any thoughts/feedback will be much appreciated!
Thanks!
ok~
- I am a 27 year old male, married and have 2 kids.
- I started school when I was 21, got a 2.0 GPA and dropped out after 3 semesters being a business major.
- During my break, my 2 kids came along and I worked for a large bank for about 3 years.
- Decided to go back to school, possibly for Dental b/c that was what a friend was doing and it sounded interesting.
- Worked full time (40+ hrs) while attended school (13 - 15 credit hrs per semester).
- Got a job as a "scribe" at a hospital and started to love medicine. Started working 55+ hrs total w/2 jobs and full semesters at school. (plus the kids and wife at home).
- My grades weren't great (my own fault at doing too much) but I have survived the 3.0 threshold.
Overall Stats:
3.1 overall GPA (including the 2.0 from earlier years)
3.15 Science
1500+ hrs as a scribe
800+ hrs of service (hrs do not include 6 months English teaching in Brazil)
Watched/Scrubbed in on multiple surgeries including stents, appy's etc...
Will have great LOR's from both DO and MD's from the ED.
Arizona Resident
I have not taken my MCAT yet and would like feedback on that also on what I should aim for. I have no preference on MD/DO and am only looking at a few MD schools (Oregon, UofA, New York Medical College, and a few others).
My logical choice would be AT Still in AZ b/c it's 2 mins from our house but I kind of want to leave AZ.
Any thoughts/feedback will be much appreciated!
Thanks!