I started experiencing PCO right when I started college. Having PCO made me feel constantly tired, miserable, and depressed throughout all my college years(which I barely made with gpa of 3.5, with downward slope as my PCO symptoms got progressively worse) but I finally got diagnosed with PCO after graduating and started receiving the right treatments and is feeling much better now. This is when I finally realized that most of the days that I skipped classes in college because I was feeling too depressed or low on energy was probably due to PCO.
The question is, should I mention this in my application? As some of you know, PCO is not entirely curable disease and will probably persist for life despite the improved symptoms. Would medical school view applicant with this disease as a negative thing? I don't want to use PCO as an excuse to how poorly I did in college, but is this something I should still disclose, as it did play a major role in my life(with mostly negative impacts though)? Also, because I don't have enough time and the money to take more classes and prove that I can do better than a 3.5, I plan to score really well on the MCAT. (im scoring in the top 88% percentile in practice tests now).
Any advice is appreciated!
The question is, should I mention this in my application? As some of you know, PCO is not entirely curable disease and will probably persist for life despite the improved symptoms. Would medical school view applicant with this disease as a negative thing? I don't want to use PCO as an excuse to how poorly I did in college, but is this something I should still disclose, as it did play a major role in my life(with mostly negative impacts though)? Also, because I don't have enough time and the money to take more classes and prove that I can do better than a 3.5, I plan to score really well on the MCAT. (im scoring in the top 88% percentile in practice tests now).
Any advice is appreciated!