PleaseHelpMeDoc
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Hi everyone,
It is the first time I ever post on a forum website, much less a forum site dedicated to aspiring professionals. Let me just start my story, and say that I will be overwhelmingly honest.
I started community college back in 2015, I stayed for a few semesters in college but quickly after first attending, my GPA took a massive dive. I thought at the time that college was not something that I was looking forward to because I was immature and dealt with personal issues. I don't ever want to use that as an excuse because clearly I am trying to push myself to be the best person that I can be.
To make long story short, I took on full-time jobs and thought that I would be able to handle work with full-time classes. Big mistake. I wasn't able to handle them but solely because I was not motivated enough to focus on my schoolwork. I even tried lowering my course load to part-time. I clearly just wasn't in it. Being young as I was, I was unhappy. As work progressed from retail to working in a big corporation, I realized, I hated it all. I wanted more meaning in my life. I wanted to help people but I also wanted to work on bettering my mental-self. I was also going through health problems where it would periodically result me in missing class as well. I did not have insurance or money to go see doctors. I didn't know what to do with my life, I didn't know how to progress forward. At this point in time, all I wanted to do was hide in my room and never come out. My last final the last semester of sophomore year. This is where everyone will go, "YIKES!".
I took Calculus and got a D. I took organic chem 1 and Physics 1 w/ Lab TWICE and received F's. I even took a film class and got an F. After several attempts, I knew that I was not mature enough to take on college.
A year later, I quit my full-time job with the big corporation and spent most of the year trying to figure out how I can march back into school full throttle. My credit went to s*** because I couldn't afford to pay my car loan anymore. It got re-poed and I downgraded to a payment-free 1991 Corolla (Couldn't be any more happy!). I was motivated, I didn't want to live my life being unhappy forever. I knew that I wanted to help people like I mentioned before, and my purpose became to give back to the under-deserved community. Considering that I had no insurance to help me through my health struggles, I dream of opening a clinic in the future that will target low-income families that need help. I would love to also eventually work in charity hospitals to help anyone I can. I'm not doing it for the money, and if I ever do receive money, I only want to help my family so that they never have to struggle again with financial issues.
Now, I am back in school doing my B.S. in Biology, and do an accredited Medical Assistant program (doing this for clinical exposure and to serve as a financial cushion for when I do my SMP) at the same time. Full-time for my bachelor's and Part-time (1 class or two) to do my medical assisting program. First semester back for Junior year I received a 4.0 and the second semester 3.14. During the second semester, I also juggled a part-time 15hr/wk job on campus (I need money to help expenses!) and volunteering weekly at a local children's hospital.
I am going through a hard-time wondering if in the long-run I'll be able to achieve my dream in making it into medical school. I know it's a long and hard struggle. The competition is fierce but I really am trying here. My expected outcome in the end after retaking my failed classes and doing a 1 year SMP is to obtain a cGPA of 3.0 and sGPA roughly around the same range. Mathematically speaking, my GPA cannot go any higher than that. I just hope admissions will look at my end trend and not focus specifically on my first two years of college.
So what are my chances? Any advice?
Also, if anyone knows, will my accredited medical assistant program help with my overall GPA in the end?
Thank-you so much and sorry for the long/sob story! I just really need help.
It is the first time I ever post on a forum website, much less a forum site dedicated to aspiring professionals. Let me just start my story, and say that I will be overwhelmingly honest.
I started community college back in 2015, I stayed for a few semesters in college but quickly after first attending, my GPA took a massive dive. I thought at the time that college was not something that I was looking forward to because I was immature and dealt with personal issues. I don't ever want to use that as an excuse because clearly I am trying to push myself to be the best person that I can be.
To make long story short, I took on full-time jobs and thought that I would be able to handle work with full-time classes. Big mistake. I wasn't able to handle them but solely because I was not motivated enough to focus on my schoolwork. I even tried lowering my course load to part-time. I clearly just wasn't in it. Being young as I was, I was unhappy. As work progressed from retail to working in a big corporation, I realized, I hated it all. I wanted more meaning in my life. I wanted to help people but I also wanted to work on bettering my mental-self. I was also going through health problems where it would periodically result me in missing class as well. I did not have insurance or money to go see doctors. I didn't know what to do with my life, I didn't know how to progress forward. At this point in time, all I wanted to do was hide in my room and never come out. My last final the last semester of sophomore year. This is where everyone will go, "YIKES!".
I took Calculus and got a D. I took organic chem 1 and Physics 1 w/ Lab TWICE and received F's. I even took a film class and got an F. After several attempts, I knew that I was not mature enough to take on college.
A year later, I quit my full-time job with the big corporation and spent most of the year trying to figure out how I can march back into school full throttle. My credit went to s*** because I couldn't afford to pay my car loan anymore. It got re-poed and I downgraded to a payment-free 1991 Corolla (Couldn't be any more happy!). I was motivated, I didn't want to live my life being unhappy forever. I knew that I wanted to help people like I mentioned before, and my purpose became to give back to the under-deserved community. Considering that I had no insurance to help me through my health struggles, I dream of opening a clinic in the future that will target low-income families that need help. I would love to also eventually work in charity hospitals to help anyone I can. I'm not doing it for the money, and if I ever do receive money, I only want to help my family so that they never have to struggle again with financial issues.
Now, I am back in school doing my B.S. in Biology, and do an accredited Medical Assistant program (doing this for clinical exposure and to serve as a financial cushion for when I do my SMP) at the same time. Full-time for my bachelor's and Part-time (1 class or two) to do my medical assisting program. First semester back for Junior year I received a 4.0 and the second semester 3.14. During the second semester, I also juggled a part-time 15hr/wk job on campus (I need money to help expenses!) and volunteering weekly at a local children's hospital.
I am going through a hard-time wondering if in the long-run I'll be able to achieve my dream in making it into medical school. I know it's a long and hard struggle. The competition is fierce but I really am trying here. My expected outcome in the end after retaking my failed classes and doing a 1 year SMP is to obtain a cGPA of 3.0 and sGPA roughly around the same range. Mathematically speaking, my GPA cannot go any higher than that. I just hope admissions will look at my end trend and not focus specifically on my first two years of college.
So what are my chances? Any advice?
Also, if anyone knows, will my accredited medical assistant program help with my overall GPA in the end?
Thank-you so much and sorry for the long/sob story! I just really need help.