Should I keep dreaming?

[Mina0o0]

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Hey guys! I have been reading through this forum for about a year and finally i decided to write this thread cause I really need your help.

Here is my story, pretty long though.
I am 28 years old male. I moved to the US 6 years ago (from Egypt). Back there I was in Electrical Engineering school. I never liked engineering, but my parents kinda forced me to go to engineering school, anyway. I had terrible grades during my first three years in school back in Egypt. I transferred to the US with determination to finish school in a good shape. They accepted about 50 credits from my old school and I had to take about 90 more credits to graduate.I finished engineering school here in the US among the top 1% of my class (3.87 GPA) Then I started my Grad school in EE as well.

The dream of being a Doctor was always there, but I always suppressed it, telling myself it's too late now. But during the last 4 months I just felt that I can no longer suppress this dream. It just haunts me day and night. The dream of a Doctor who spends substantial amount of his career treating those in need at his poor home country. anyway.

So I decided to drop out of my engineering grad program and start taking med school pre-reqs.

Here are the major problems that will adversely affect my application:

1- Due to financial limitation, i will be taking all the pre-reqs at a local community college.
2- I have some pre-reqs (Chem 1, Pys1 and 2, and all my math classes) that will be more than 10 years old by the time I start applying.
3- I have a very bad credit score.
4- I dropped out of my masters program
5- It might be very hard to get a transcript from my old school in Egypt.
6- If I was even successful at getting this old transcript, it's truly a terrible one.
7- I have about $25K federal student loan for my uncompleted masters. Which probably means i wont be able to get any more federal loans to finance med school.
8- I will be 30 at the time of matriculating if I get accepted.

Do you think there is any possibility to get accepted in any US med program?
Should I keep going and dreaming, or should i live on earth and get back to that boring **** I was doing, and maybe defer the doctor dream for the next life 😀

Cheers

 

[Temperature101]

Hey guys! I have been reading through this forum for about a year and finally i decided to write this thread cause I really need your help.

Here is my story, pretty long though.
I am 28 years old male. I moved to the US 6 years ago (from Egypt). Back there I was in Electrical Engineering school. I never liked engineering, but my parents kinda forced me to go to engineering school, anyway. I had terrible grades during my first three years in school back in Egypt. I transferred to the US with determination to finish school in a good shape. They accepted about 50 credits from my old school and I had to take about 90 more credits to graduate.I finished engineering school here in the US among the top 1% of my class (3.87 GPA) Then I started my Grad school in EE as well.

The dream of being a Doctor was always there, but I always suppressed it, telling myself it's too late now. But during the last 4 months I just felt that I can no longer suppress this dream. It just haunts me day and night. The dream of a Doctor who spends substantial amount of his career treating those in need at his poor home country. anyway.

So I decided to drop out of my engineering grad program and start taking med school pre-reqs.

Here are the major problems that will adversely affect my application:

1- Due to financial limitation, i will be taking all the pre-reqs at a local community college.
2- I have some pre-reqs (Chem 1, Pys1 and 2, and all my math classes) that will be more than 10 years old by the time I start applying.
3- I have a very bad credit score.
4- I dropped out of my masters program
5- It might be very hard to get a transcript from my old school in Egypt.
6- If I was even successful at getting this old transcript, it's truly a terrible one.
7- I have about $25K federal student loan for my uncompleted masters. Which probably means i wont be able to get any more federal loans to finance med school.
8- I will be 30 at the time of matriculating if I get accepted.

Do you think there is any possibility to get accepted in any US med program?
Should I keep going and dreaming, or should i live on earth and get back to that boring **** I was doing, and maybe defer the doctor dream for the next life 😀

Cheers

If you can maintain that GPA to 3.6...and do well on the mcat, you should be able to get into med school. Try to get some clinical experience while taking your prereqs. Keep in mind you will need a 30+ mcat for MD and 26+ mcat for DO to have a good shot at med school. You are not dreaming..Let say you start med school at the age of 31...You will done before you are 40...You will still have 25+ years of your life to do what you enjoy doing...For instance, one of the physicians who will give me a letter of recommendation started med school whe he was in his early 50s according to him.

 

[Catalystik]

Hey guys! I have been reading through this forum for about a year and finally i decided to write this thread cause I really need your help.

Here is my story, pretty long though.
I am 28 years old male. I moved to the US 6 years ago (from Egypt). Back there I was in Electrical Engineering school. I never liked engineering, but my parents kinda forced me to go to engineering school, anyway. I had terrible grades during my first three years in school back in Egypt. I transferred to the US with determination to finish school in a good shape. They accepted about 50 credits from my old school and I had to take about 90 more credits to graduate.I finished engineering school here in the US among the top 1% of my class (3.87 GPA) Then I started my Grad school in EE as well.

The dream of being a Doctor was always there, but I always suppressed it, telling myself it's too late now. But during the last 4 months I just felt that I can no longer suppress this dream. It just haunts me day and night. The dream of a Doctor who spends substantial amount of his career treating those in need at his poor home country. anyway.

So I decided to drop out of my engineering grad program and start taking med school pre-reqs.

Here are the major problems that will adversely affect my application:

1- Due to financial limitation, i will be taking all the pre-reqs at a local community college.
2- I have some pre-reqs (Chem 1, Pys1 and 2, and all my math classes) that will be more than 10 years old by the time I start applying.
3- I have a very bad credit score.
4- I dropped out of my masters program
5- It might be very hard to get a transcript from my old school in Egypt.
6- If I was even successful at getting this old transcript, it's truly a terrible one.
7- I have about $25K federal student loan for my uncompleted masters. Which probably means i wont be able to get any more federal loans to finance med school.
8- I will be 30 at the time of matriculating if I get accepted.

Do you think there is any possibility to get accepted in any US med program?
Should I keep going and dreaming, or should i live on earth and get back to that boring **** I was doing, and maybe defer the doctor dream for the next life 😀

Cheers

Fortunately for you, AMCAS, the primary MD application service, does not accept foreign transcripts. The only classes that might hurt would be the ones that transferred to a US school, if you were given a grade equivalent. if they transferred on a P/F basis, then they wouldn't have an effect on your GPAs. Some med schools might ask for a transcript report from a translation service, but you've already had that done probably, to get the credit you had to transfer to the US. That your foreign grades were long ago, and your most recent grades are excellent, and that you are of nontraditional age, will work in your favor, provided your prerequisite work is equally excellent.

AACOMAS, the primary DO med school application service, does accept foreign transcripts. What was your GPA overall in Egypt? Keep in mind that AACOMAS only counts the most recent grade if you retake a class for the same credits or better. With this information, perhaps you can figure out what your AMCAS and AACOMAS GPAs would be:

AMCAS GPA calculator: AMCAS GPA Calculation Spreadsheet http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=12403466#post12403466
AMCAS grade conversion guide: https://www.aamc.org/students/download/181676/data/amcas_grade_conversion_guide.pdf
AMCAS BCPM GPA and AACOMAS sGPA includes: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=552026
Screen shot of AMCAS Verified Grade Point Averages summary: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=11226358

Besides that, you'd better start working on fixing your credit rating, and saving your money. Old coursework does expire at some schools, but not all. You might need to reake some classes to refresh the material for the MCAT though (or to invoke the grade replacement policy).

 

[Mina0o0]

Thank you guys for the responses. I think i will keep this dream pumping as far as i could