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Hi Guys,
I feel like I am having an existential crisis and I really need some guidance!
I graduated this year with a BA in Biochemistry minoring in Political Science. I was ready to write my MCat this week (July 20) but I bottled out. I did the AAMC qpack material, NS full length etc but I felt there were too many holes in my content review. I felt burned out.
I plan to sit the Mcat in January 2020 but I want advise on what I can do to make my application as good as it can get for the next cycle.
So I have hospice volunteering( Over 500 hours), I shadowed a Radiation Oncologist for a month (Around 50hrs) and I have done various work with groups that work work with Breast Cancer awareness and Liver cancer awareness. I am working with a Cancer disparity project right now But Im not getting anything out of it but I did present a poster at a national conference. I did field work collecting samples for a global study. I am working as a Clinical Research Interviewer for a research study (CAPABLE). With the study the PI testified before the house committee and the research was green-lighted as something that will be looked into to see whether it can be part of MedicCare advantage.
I feel my application will be much more solid by next cycle as i will have had one year in this study. I also do really well recruiting and interviewing patients.
I believe the doctor will give me an incredible LOR and I have another LOR that I will get from a professor in my Biochem major (I did not have that and I know some schools want that LOR)
yet with all that. Knowing that I have all the baseline (bar the MCat) I feel like I am missing something.
Is this normal? I am not doubting medicine but I feel completely scared that I wont have enough. Not to mention Im non trad so there is that.
Is there anything extra that anyone can recommend that I should try to do?
Should I focus on a high score on the MCat alone or is there any kind of research that I should try to get into?
Please help this burned out candidate.
Thanks you.
I feel like I am having an existential crisis and I really need some guidance!
I graduated this year with a BA in Biochemistry minoring in Political Science. I was ready to write my MCat this week (July 20) but I bottled out. I did the AAMC qpack material, NS full length etc but I felt there were too many holes in my content review. I felt burned out.
I plan to sit the Mcat in January 2020 but I want advise on what I can do to make my application as good as it can get for the next cycle.
So I have hospice volunteering( Over 500 hours), I shadowed a Radiation Oncologist for a month (Around 50hrs) and I have done various work with groups that work work with Breast Cancer awareness and Liver cancer awareness. I am working with a Cancer disparity project right now But Im not getting anything out of it but I did present a poster at a national conference. I did field work collecting samples for a global study. I am working as a Clinical Research Interviewer for a research study (CAPABLE). With the study the PI testified before the house committee and the research was green-lighted as something that will be looked into to see whether it can be part of MedicCare advantage.
I feel my application will be much more solid by next cycle as i will have had one year in this study. I also do really well recruiting and interviewing patients.
I believe the doctor will give me an incredible LOR and I have another LOR that I will get from a professor in my Biochem major (I did not have that and I know some schools want that LOR)
yet with all that. Knowing that I have all the baseline (bar the MCat) I feel like I am missing something.
Is this normal? I am not doubting medicine but I feel completely scared that I wont have enough. Not to mention Im non trad so there is that.
Is there anything extra that anyone can recommend that I should try to do?
Should I focus on a high score on the MCat alone or is there any kind of research that I should try to get into?
Please help this burned out candidate.
Thanks you.