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I'm currently in a PhD program (2 years into it) and by this time next year can get a master's (which has already been delayed due to illness. I should have been preparing for the master's now). However, I am deeply unhappy and even clinically depressed in regards to the program I am in and where I am living.
My PI, who is very supportive of my med school endeavors, has encouraged me to apply to SMP programs for this Fall. Others have suggested that I at least finish the master's in my current program. I am torn. I think finishing looks the best, but I am unsure if I can. Of course issues can carry wherever I am, but location does make a BIG difference for me, i.e. I may be content to finish if the program were elsewhere. Then there's the fact that I'm on the line of being overqualified for some SMP's so the decision may be made for me. Regardless, my PI says that I should be able to get a publication if I finish my mini-project by June/July (doable, if the lab gets over the dry funding period). Can you just feel the ambivalence?
I applied this past cycle and did not get in, no interviews.
3.57 GPA, 3.4 BCPM (with a huge decline my junior year when I took most of the premed courses), 28R. But I was "immature" about my application in that I did not research things enough, and plan on applying again this coming cycle.
Advice? And please be gentle. 🙂
My PI, who is very supportive of my med school endeavors, has encouraged me to apply to SMP programs for this Fall. Others have suggested that I at least finish the master's in my current program. I am torn. I think finishing looks the best, but I am unsure if I can. Of course issues can carry wherever I am, but location does make a BIG difference for me, i.e. I may be content to finish if the program were elsewhere. Then there's the fact that I'm on the line of being overqualified for some SMP's so the decision may be made for me. Regardless, my PI says that I should be able to get a publication if I finish my mini-project by June/July (doable, if the lab gets over the dry funding period). Can you just feel the ambivalence?
I applied this past cycle and did not get in, no interviews.
3.57 GPA, 3.4 BCPM (with a huge decline my junior year when I took most of the premed courses), 28R. But I was "immature" about my application in that I did not research things enough, and plan on applying again this coming cycle.
Advice? And please be gentle. 🙂
