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Hi Everyone!!
I graduated with a 3.57 and a sGPA of 3.4 in 2009. I took the past 2 years to deal with some personal issues, deaths in the family etc. I am planning on applying for the 2012 cycle. I am taking my DAT in April, I have taken it once with an embarrassing score of 16. I didn't really study and barely tried. I am back and ready with a a fiery passion. I was a D1 college athlete, president of the biology honor society, I did student research in my 3rd year and spent the summer in Chile as a research assistant to one of my professors, I worked for 2 years in the off season from volleyball, and I am a quarter native american. The only issues with my research is I chose to do it in ecology and parasitology because I thought found the project to be extremely interesting. I have spent the last year shadowing and working part time for a dentist. My primary job is bartending and serving, because it allows me the time to shadow and study adequately for the DAT (while still making a decent living). I am applying to a few one year post bacc's for the fall to get back in school. I am worried about my time off, I know I needed it so that I would be prepared mentally for D school. I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on whether or not my time off would be a huge black mark on my application. I also used the time off for running a marathon and raising money for the leukemia and lymphoma cancer society. My number 1 school is LSU since I would be an instate applicant and of course instate tuition is always nice. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You SDNers when I start to lose motivation on those long study days, you guys always bring me back!!!
Much appreciation, and I wish everyone the best on here!!
I graduated with a 3.57 and a sGPA of 3.4 in 2009. I took the past 2 years to deal with some personal issues, deaths in the family etc. I am planning on applying for the 2012 cycle. I am taking my DAT in April, I have taken it once with an embarrassing score of 16. I didn't really study and barely tried. I am back and ready with a a fiery passion. I was a D1 college athlete, president of the biology honor society, I did student research in my 3rd year and spent the summer in Chile as a research assistant to one of my professors, I worked for 2 years in the off season from volleyball, and I am a quarter native american. The only issues with my research is I chose to do it in ecology and parasitology because I thought found the project to be extremely interesting. I have spent the last year shadowing and working part time for a dentist. My primary job is bartending and serving, because it allows me the time to shadow and study adequately for the DAT (while still making a decent living). I am applying to a few one year post bacc's for the fall to get back in school. I am worried about my time off, I know I needed it so that I would be prepared mentally for D school. I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on whether or not my time off would be a huge black mark on my application. I also used the time off for running a marathon and raising money for the leukemia and lymphoma cancer society. My number 1 school is LSU since I would be an instate applicant and of course instate tuition is always nice. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank You SDNers when I start to lose motivation on those long study days, you guys always bring me back!!!
Much appreciation, and I wish everyone the best on here!!