DadofThreeBoys
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Parent of rising second year college student and looking for guidance ... in the background ... to keep his options in play to apply to medical school.
Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering, has a 4.0 GPA (and seems likely to keep a strong GPA), not yet taken the MCAT (this is the only known-unknown shall I say).
Is working as a PCT in the Emergency Department and will amass ~1000 hours of clinical work by the time he applies in his third year, along with shadowing of about ~100 hours.
He has volunteer hours, but these typically are not in the medical setting (do they need to be?), but they are at church, or at senior facilities, or other social programs. I anticipate he'd have ~150 hours or so.
Research, he's trying to get his foot in the door as a second year student and targets to get ~300-400 hours by the time he applies.
What blind spots do I have as a parent... who is trying to learn in the background... to gently keep him on track without him getting stressed out... take it easy on me, be kind. 🙂
Georgia Tech, Biomedical Engineering, has a 4.0 GPA (and seems likely to keep a strong GPA), not yet taken the MCAT (this is the only known-unknown shall I say).
Is working as a PCT in the Emergency Department and will amass ~1000 hours of clinical work by the time he applies in his third year, along with shadowing of about ~100 hours.
He has volunteer hours, but these typically are not in the medical setting (do they need to be?), but they are at church, or at senior facilities, or other social programs. I anticipate he'd have ~150 hours or so.
Research, he's trying to get his foot in the door as a second year student and targets to get ~300-400 hours by the time he applies.
What blind spots do I have as a parent... who is trying to learn in the background... to gently keep him on track without him getting stressed out... take it easy on me, be kind. 🙂
