Hello everyone,
My first freshman year was embarrassingly awful, I was irresponsible and partied way too hard. During the second semester I decided I was going to enlist because i saw what I was becoming and needed some discipline.
I enlisted, served for 5 years, and separated with an honorable discharge. Then, decided I was finally ready to pursue my dream and went back to school. I'm currently in my second year of undergrad, and since coming back to school I've gotten nothing less than a 3.5, my cgpa is~3.7 and my science gpa is around a 3.8 (Ochem 1 ruined the 4.0 i had going lol). Now that I'm in my groove and have figured out how I study best, I'm on track for my first 4.0 semester. I qualified for the academic forgiveness program offered by my university, so my first freshman year was erased from my transcript, or so i thought.
I recently found out that AMCAS doesn't recognize the academic forgiveness and that I will have to list them with the grades earned on my applications when the time comes.
Be brutally honest, am I screwed, or can showing drastic improvement + great MCAT save my dream?
Also, I've been doing as much shadowing and volunteering as I can fit into my schedule, work as a phlebotomist/lab tech, TA for biology, tutored for biology, and soon I also start working in a cancer research lab where I will have free reign to design, conduct, and (hopefully) present my own experiments/research.
My first freshman year was embarrassingly awful, I was irresponsible and partied way too hard. During the second semester I decided I was going to enlist because i saw what I was becoming and needed some discipline.
I enlisted, served for 5 years, and separated with an honorable discharge. Then, decided I was finally ready to pursue my dream and went back to school. I'm currently in my second year of undergrad, and since coming back to school I've gotten nothing less than a 3.5, my cgpa is~3.7 and my science gpa is around a 3.8 (Ochem 1 ruined the 4.0 i had going lol). Now that I'm in my groove and have figured out how I study best, I'm on track for my first 4.0 semester. I qualified for the academic forgiveness program offered by my university, so my first freshman year was erased from my transcript, or so i thought.
I recently found out that AMCAS doesn't recognize the academic forgiveness and that I will have to list them with the grades earned on my applications when the time comes.
Be brutally honest, am I screwed, or can showing drastic improvement + great MCAT save my dream?
Also, I've been doing as much shadowing and volunteering as I can fit into my schedule, work as a phlebotomist/lab tech, TA for biology, tutored for biology, and soon I also start working in a cancer research lab where I will have free reign to design, conduct, and (hopefully) present my own experiments/research.