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I graduated with a BS in biology 5 years ago and am now at a point where I would like to get serious about applying to professional school.
I believe my overall cGPA is somewhere around 3.5 with my sGPA slightly higher 3.7ish(?), not exactly sure as I have courses from 2 different schools and need to calculate it myself. Despite looking good numbers-wise, I do have some blemishes. A few C grades in electives and one D in a lab course, all due to poor time management skills at the time which have since been rectified.
During school I volunteered as a patient transporter in a large hospital. Not exactly sure of the number of hours, maybe 100 or so?
After graduating, I was very focused on research. I got an unpaid position in a kidney research lab at a top medical school where I worked for about a year. No publications but great experience. At the same time I also worked in a DNA sequencing lab and a pharmacy (~1 year) and later at a company doing contract in-vivo research (~1 year).
Right now I am a medical assistant to a skin cancer surgeon which is awesome. This means I have about a year of full-time clinical experience and will have even more when I'm ready to apply.
I'm not planning to take the GRE if I can avoid doing so.
With all this in mind, where do I stand?
I believe my overall cGPA is somewhere around 3.5 with my sGPA slightly higher 3.7ish(?), not exactly sure as I have courses from 2 different schools and need to calculate it myself. Despite looking good numbers-wise, I do have some blemishes. A few C grades in electives and one D in a lab course, all due to poor time management skills at the time which have since been rectified.
During school I volunteered as a patient transporter in a large hospital. Not exactly sure of the number of hours, maybe 100 or so?
After graduating, I was very focused on research. I got an unpaid position in a kidney research lab at a top medical school where I worked for about a year. No publications but great experience. At the same time I also worked in a DNA sequencing lab and a pharmacy (~1 year) and later at a company doing contract in-vivo research (~1 year).
Right now I am a medical assistant to a skin cancer surgeon which is awesome. This means I have about a year of full-time clinical experience and will have even more when I'm ready to apply.
I'm not planning to take the GRE if I can avoid doing so.
With all this in mind, where do I stand?
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