Hello,
this is my first time posting so please excuse any issues with formatting etc . I’m 26f, with a low gpa due to a series of difficult events as well as my own irresponsibility during undergrad. I am a first generation American who migrated to the US with my mother as a child . I have grown up in a low income home and did not have resources for any prep courses or books throughout high school or for MCAT prep etc. Despite my financial state, I was a high achiever and graduated high school with a 3.98 gpa and amassed several hundred hours as a volunteer EMT .
During my first semester of College, I continued to excel in my classes , even difficult premed prerequisites , despite a bout of homelessness and working while studying to support my siblings and myself . At the end of my first semester, my mother was hospitalized due to severe preeclampsia that caused her organs to fail. She lost one child prior to surgery and the second (twins ) was placed on life support machines . Since my mother was wavering between consciousness, I was there and holding my baby sister once they removed her from life support . All of this is documented and occurred during finals week . I managed to keep my gpa high for finals but experienced my first serious bout of depression in the semester that followed . My grades began to tank, not because the material was difficult but because I had no will or desire to even attend classes/finals . In hindsight, I believe I was slightly traumatized by this incident .
After the passage of time, I was able to get my head right and work on my classes and managed to work my way back to the deans list . Only to be hit with a second calamity, my mother developed breast cancer and needed full time care recovering from a double mastectomy. My grades once again took a slide . I graduated University and never applied to any school because I did not believe any Adcom would take a chance on me.
Four years later, I have become a very successful in my field . I opened up and managed my own business at 22. I have developed skills in sales and social interactions I did not know I was missing .I have learned impeccable interview and communication skills and have spent countless hours volunteering and shadowing . However, my gpa now stands at 3.08 with my AMCAS gpa lower , as Biology major the majority of my classes were science and therefore taking more science classes will not make a considerable effect on my AMCAS gpa.
I consider myself to be a very intelligent individual who never once struggled with the material only with my ability to cope with life and take full responsibility , my transcripts reflect the highs and lows of my effort . I fully take responsibility for what happened and have learned to come to terms with my self blame . I have found success in other fields but cannot stop thinking about going to medical school . I truly believe I will live my life in regret if I do not try. I have not yet taken the MCAT but am very confident with standardized tests .Is this all a pipe dream ?
