Looking for advice on what to do

Your GPA and MCAT are low for MD med school which I am assuming you want to apply to given the location of this post in the MD forum. If you want to wait two years before applying I would retake the MCAT and probably go get a masters. This way your grades in college will be less important; they would look at your grades in grad school (do well i.e. get a 4.0).

Retaking the MCAT will be important because it seems almost every year people do better and better on. A 29 now will be the equivalent of a 27 or 28 that far into the future.

If you really want to get a job and not go back to school you are going to need a pretty good one that shows a demonstrated interest in science and medicine. Preferably get one working for a researcher at a med school, this way you have an in at that institution.

 

The job market is ROUGH. I'm in a similar position as you in terms of undergrad major/experience, and the only jobs that I can even apply to are mostly lab assistant jobs. I agree with everything the above person said, but it's probably too late to start your master's this year. I would start job-hunting asap and maybe start a master's next year. In the mean time, work on your volunteering, shadowing, etc.

 

It really depends on you. Consider DO and medical school in puerto rico, i heard they are better than caribean schools. Personally, i knew one person who went to a program where he studied in caribean and then spend the last 2 years of medical school (clinical years) in NY. he said he hated the first 2 years.

 

I hope you're not implying Puerto Rico isn't US territory, it's just as hard to get into med school over here

 

In fact I think it's harders since there's only like 4 schools

 

Question about your major, I was once considering Davis's Biochem, but I saw this major and thought that it sounded interesting. Can you speak on the difficulty level of the upper division classes and level of depth that it covers?

 

Not easier or harder than US allo, just appealing to a different applicant demographic.

OP Caribbean is usually a last resort for many. My personal recommendation would be to consider DO instead.

 

Is your major in any way similar to a psych or neuroscience major? I was thinking since it had behavior in the title it might be. You could probably easily get a job working at a local hospital on the psych unit, if that interests you, I've noticed some prefer men to women for those positions. I've been looking for jobs at the hospitals in my area and I keep seeing a ton of those positions, sometimes their called "psychiatric associates".

Otherwise, you could email professors at local universities and colleges to see if they are looking for any research assistants, but you might have to take an unpaid position at first.

If you have a VA hospital near you I'd check usajobs.gov, they sometimes have positions on there for research assistants.

 

I'm surprised you have made it this far and have yet to have any real clinical experience with patients.