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This is a strange case and I want fellow students input on this. I am an osteopathic medical student but am writing this on the allopathic forum as well because I think it applies to both. Here's the synopsis.
I was rocking and rolling through medical school during first year, top 10 in my class, somehow scored 232 on my step1... then went through a heartbreaking divorce and my mother who I am very close to recently had a stroke and diagnosed with Parkinson's. She went from an active person to one who can barely move. Having my older sister pass away recently has taken an emotional and physical toll on me...but it was/is especially hard on my mother who loved her daughter. The divorce dragged through 2nd years of medical school... I dropped rank to #50/150 in my class. I completely bombed the step2 at 207... My hopes and dream was to always do Rads and although getting in with a 232 on step1 would have been difficult...it would be close to impossible now with 207 on step2 and barely top 1/3 in my class. I've been applying to a lesser competitive residency instead.
I do not regret the events that have happened in my life: my marriage or that I should have stayed near home during college/medschool more to be with my parents before all this started. Worse things have happened to other people... but I gave a long and hard thought to Rads and decided... what the heck, why not try. I've decided to reapply right now through ERAS to all Rads residency ...with a 0% chance of getting an interview this late in the season. My main goal is: if somehow/somewhere I can scramble into a spot after the match, then it would be quite amazing. Rads is all that I wanted to do since starting medical school and I know my odds at this point in the game is very slim... but I have nothing to lose.
Sorry for the rambling. Here's the main point: I'm going to do a new personal statement for ERAS for Rads and wondering if I should put a 1-2 sentence about what has happened to me, why I applied this late in the game, what type of residency that I've been apply to and now switched to Rads, and why my grades frankly suck so much.... or should I just leave it all out altogether. Any constructive opinions would be greatly appreciate... and please, if you only have condescending to say, like "dude, don't even try" or "you weakling, I raised 10 kids and still am top in my class", then I would rather you not respond at all.
Thank you for reading this.
I was rocking and rolling through medical school during first year, top 10 in my class, somehow scored 232 on my step1... then went through a heartbreaking divorce and my mother who I am very close to recently had a stroke and diagnosed with Parkinson's. She went from an active person to one who can barely move. Having my older sister pass away recently has taken an emotional and physical toll on me...but it was/is especially hard on my mother who loved her daughter. The divorce dragged through 2nd years of medical school... I dropped rank to #50/150 in my class. I completely bombed the step2 at 207... My hopes and dream was to always do Rads and although getting in with a 232 on step1 would have been difficult...it would be close to impossible now with 207 on step2 and barely top 1/3 in my class. I've been applying to a lesser competitive residency instead.
I do not regret the events that have happened in my life: my marriage or that I should have stayed near home during college/medschool more to be with my parents before all this started. Worse things have happened to other people... but I gave a long and hard thought to Rads and decided... what the heck, why not try. I've decided to reapply right now through ERAS to all Rads residency ...with a 0% chance of getting an interview this late in the season. My main goal is: if somehow/somewhere I can scramble into a spot after the match, then it would be quite amazing. Rads is all that I wanted to do since starting medical school and I know my odds at this point in the game is very slim... but I have nothing to lose.
Sorry for the rambling. Here's the main point: I'm going to do a new personal statement for ERAS for Rads and wondering if I should put a 1-2 sentence about what has happened to me, why I applied this late in the game, what type of residency that I've been apply to and now switched to Rads, and why my grades frankly suck so much.... or should I just leave it all out altogether. Any constructive opinions would be greatly appreciate... and please, if you only have condescending to say, like "dude, don't even try" or "you weakling, I raised 10 kids and still am top in my class", then I would rather you not respond at all.
Thank you for reading this.
