toostubborn
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Hello friends, hoping for some advice on how to best sell myself during the application process.
All the at a glance stuff:
- going to appy to MD and DO
- 2.99 sGPA and cGPA ( 2.0 freshmen/sophomore 3.9 junior 4.0 senior)
- All prereqs done
- 520 MCAT
- veteran
- 500 hours hospice volunteering
- 50 hours shadowing
- 4 LORs, though I'm sure I could get more if go begging with the puppy dog eyes
- starting work as a medical assistant next month
I realize this gpa is going to make for an uphill battle, and more hours and more stuff is always great. I'm 34 years old, and I'd really prefer not to spend more time doing a postbacc/SMP but I'm prepared to do one if I have to. The heart wants what it wants.
What I'm really concerned with is being asked to explain my timeline. I had a rough landing into civilian life after the military. I was deeply depressed and had a lot of unresolved issues. There is a span of about six years where I did three things: do horribly in community college, do lots of psychedelic drugs, and meditate all day. Eventually I had the classic mystical experience, and I was ready to commit to the world. It's something I don't want to discuss with people in any professional capacity. But I'm worried about how to explain this giant gap of time and the dramatic turnaround in my performance. If I make up some bs about how I learned better study habits, I think telling people it took me six years to figure out how pass a couple of community college classes looks worse than the truth.
I'd appreciate anyone's persective on my story. Thanks friends.
All the at a glance stuff:
- going to appy to MD and DO
- 2.99 sGPA and cGPA ( 2.0 freshmen/sophomore 3.9 junior 4.0 senior)
- All prereqs done
- 520 MCAT
- veteran
- 500 hours hospice volunteering
- 50 hours shadowing
- 4 LORs, though I'm sure I could get more if go begging with the puppy dog eyes
- starting work as a medical assistant next month
I realize this gpa is going to make for an uphill battle, and more hours and more stuff is always great. I'm 34 years old, and I'd really prefer not to spend more time doing a postbacc/SMP but I'm prepared to do one if I have to. The heart wants what it wants.
What I'm really concerned with is being asked to explain my timeline. I had a rough landing into civilian life after the military. I was deeply depressed and had a lot of unresolved issues. There is a span of about six years where I did three things: do horribly in community college, do lots of psychedelic drugs, and meditate all day. Eventually I had the classic mystical experience, and I was ready to commit to the world. It's something I don't want to discuss with people in any professional capacity. But I'm worried about how to explain this giant gap of time and the dramatic turnaround in my performance. If I make up some bs about how I learned better study habits, I think telling people it took me six years to figure out how pass a couple of community college classes looks worse than the truth.
I'd appreciate anyone's persective on my story. Thanks friends.
