maybe a bit obsessed but...

[lifelover]

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I want to go to UNECOM so bad!!! I would do ANYTHING, absolutely anything! I love the location and the program and the people love it and the education seems top of the line and I think it can get me where I want to be ... I would seriously cut off my right arm (and that probably wouldn't help me much when/if I got there but , ya know) ...

So anyway I have a really low gpa, like we're talking 3.0 here, and I haven't taken the MCAT yet (I am taking the kaplan review for it in the spring, we're hoping for BIG things here). So over this next year as I am completing my senior year can any UNECOMers give me advice on what I can do to impress the admissions staff? I have good EC's already (ALOT of involvement with the American Cancer Society and admissions/recruitment at my school, American Chemical Society award... yada yada) and I plan on volunteering and shadowing a DO as much as possible and after graduation next year I hope to be getting a research job. (since I will have a year between graduation and starting med school) So please please please let me know what else I should be doing. Any advice or similar experience stories would be greatly appreciated!

 

[redwings54]

Lifelover,
Good luck with your senior year. It was my most difficult year in school, and combined a desire for a social life, you arent going to see your friends again all together for a while after you graduate, with a desire to do well academically and get into med school. My story is similar to yours. I graduated college with a 3.04 GPA and a lower science. I was a chem major and hence have a lot of science already on my transcript. I was awarded an awesome opportunity to research holistic medicine in Russia and Scotland expense paid. Since I got back in December of this past year, I worked in a hospital gaining clinical experience, shadowed physicians, especially DOs, and have taken a couple of science classes hoping to bump up my GPA. Oh, one difference, I already took the MCAT and scored a mediocre 25 on it.

So what I did was travel up to UNECOM, met with James Gaffney, the head of recruiting and alumni affairs, and asked him what I can do to make myself a better candidate. He told me first and foremore to apply. That you will never know how you stand if you dont. He also said to get in the application early. Lastly, he told me to take a few upper level classes and do well in them, prove I can handle a medical school course load. You are lucky in that you still have 25% of your college career left to prove you can do it. Do well on the MCAT and work hard during your senior year and your dream may come true. Also, contact James Gaffney and ask him what you can do. Not only does it give you an idea of what to do, but it shows iniative and a desire to go to UNE. Good luck

 

[lifelover]

Thank you very very much and I will do exactly what you said and work my butt off and I will also contact James. Are you applying for sept 2007 as well or for 2006? Well whichever, good luck to you. It sounds like you definitely have the motivation! Congrats!

 

[jonb12997]

I'm at UNE and Love it... however, as the saying goes, "don't put all your eggs in one baskets." UNE is a great school, and I'm sure you'd have a good time here, but you need to apply to other schools also... The one thing I might think about is rather than doing research next year, try and get some medical hands on experience... I personally think that that would suit you a little better. Well, back to neuro...

 

[kaikai128]

Another thing to keep in mind...If your GPA is what is holding you back in the end, there are a lot of Masters programs and/or Graduate level courses you can take post-bacc in order to improve your GPA. I am pretty sure that UNE offers some, maybe look into these classes if you have your heart set on this school (I think they even have some online).