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[aimsz88]

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I want to thank this forum because without the support of those on here over the years, I wouldn't be typing this during a orientation lecture to my M3 year. I did it! 🙂

I raised my MCAT by 11 points, kept a 4.0 post bac over three years, published, worked for a prominent surgeon at UCLA with letters from the head of the department...and got interviews my first time. Worked full time all the while and picked up two other jobs to put myself through...now that I think about it I must have been crazy.

In any case, I picked up and moved to a new city and my boyfriend came with. He's a bit older (early thirties) and was an international student with no English as of three years ago. He's doing well with the English now and the cute Italian accent sometimes helps, sometimes hurts. 😛

He's always had a passion for sports medicine, and would like to pursue a career in podiatric medicine. I'm wondering (since I'm a med student and not a pod student) how I can go about helping him appropriately.

He's got the equivalent of a masters degree in economics and public relations, with some english and math and language that would be applicable, but I'm not sure how much it would be able to count towards pre-pod requirements. The GPA calculated in any way you slice it is 3.8-3.97 under any way but again I don't know how what it would mean to an admissions committee.

How competitive is podiatry as far as admissions considering pre-requisites taken at a community college? How many courses taken at once is considered competitive enough that would allow him to work at the same time? We're obviously not well off as a poor young couple. Heh.

What kind of extracurriculars are going to be considered acceptable as well? I believe that he's going to be able to have some shadowing opportunities with some high profile sports doctors for soccer/football teams but I'm not sure how far that will go.

Any thoughts/advice is appreciated. I realize it's going to be a long road but I'm willing to hear what advice (please be nice!) hehe may be out there since they started preferring/accepting MCATs and not GREs.

Thanks!!

 

[NTF]

You'd probably get better responses in the Podiatry forums because most of the non-trads here are pre-med. I can move the thread there if you like.

 

[aimsz88]

Hi, yes please if you are a moderator or can help me with that! I appreciate it.

 

[dyk343]

I want to thank this forum because without the support of those on here over the years, I wouldn't be typing this during a orientation lecture to my M3 year. I did it! 🙂

I raised my MCAT by 11 points, kept a 4.0 post bac over three years, published, worked for a prominent surgeon at UCLA with letters from the head of the department...and got interviews my first time. Worked full time all the while and picked up two other jobs to put myself through...now that I think about it I must have been crazy.

In any case, I picked up and moved to a new city and my boyfriend came with. He's a bit older (early thirties) and was an international student with no English as of three years ago. He's doing well with the English now and the cute Italian accent sometimes helps, sometimes hurts. 😛

He's always had a passion for sports medicine, and would like to pursue a career in podiatric medicine. I'm wondering (since I'm a med student and not a pod student) how I can go about helping him appropriately.

He's got the equivalent of a masters degree in economics and public relations, with some english and math and language that would be applicable, but I'm not sure how much it would be able to count towards pre-pod requirements. The GPA calculated in any way you slice it is 3.8-3.97 under any way but again I don't know how what it would mean to an admissions committee.

How competitive is podiatry as far as admissions considering pre-requisites taken at a community college? How many courses taken at once is considered competitive enough that would allow him to work at the same time? We're obviously not well off as a poor young couple. Heh.

What kind of extracurriculars are going to be considered acceptable as well? I believe that he's going to be able to have some shadowing opportunities with some high profile sports doctors for soccer/football teams but I'm not sure how far that will go.

Any thoughts/advice is appreciated. I realize it's going to be a long road but I'm willing to hear what advice (please be nice!) hehe may be out there since they started preferring/accepting MCATs and not GREs.

Thanks!!

Here is the list of requirements for podiatry school. Have him get at least a B or higher and score a 22+ on the MCAT. If he does that he should get some interviews.

I took a few courses at a community college and had no problems scoring interviews.

 

[krabmas]

before undertaking the MCATs and pre-recs, I advise to call some of the schools and talk to someone in admissions and financial aide. They will tell you what needs to be done and if this is really feasible.

 

[pieds]

Most schools won't look down at cc classes so long as he does well in them - that - and doing well on the mcat.

Some things I would like to add since he was an international student:
-he's going to need to submit an eval of his foreign transcripts (he's probably familiar with it) to the app service
-he should call the schools he is interested in regarding language proficiency (pod school is easy to get into, not so easy getting out of)
-if he's not a us permanent resident/usa citizen, he may want to look into student loans from his home country (unless of course he already has that covered🙂)

good luck!

 

[catchburns]

Most schools won't look down at cc classes so long as he does well in them - that - and doing well on the mcat.

Some things I would like to add since he was an international student:
-he's going to need to submit an eval of his foreign transcripts (he's probably familiar with it) to the app service
-he should call the schools he is interested in regarding language proficiency (pod school is easy to get into, not so easy getting out of)
-if he's not a us permanent resident/usa citizen, he may want to look into student loans from his home country (unless of course he already has that covered🙂)

good luck!

This is good advice and is probably the best place to start.

 

[aimsz88]

gosh, thanks so all the quick replies guys!

Yes, I know that somehow I need to get an official evaluation plus a translation service for his foreign transcripts...but does anybody know offhand how applicable some of the prereqs are going to be if they were taken in 2006?

We're definitely working on those other aspects, I am just glad I wasn't walking into a waste of time trying to enroll him into a cc.

Is there a recommended extracurricular that seems to be en vogue right now? I remember for med school there was a point where being an EMT was the thing, then it was research and publications, etc. What is important for pod students to round out their pre-pod experience? Thanks!

😛

 

[Marry2Pod]

gosh, thanks so all the quick replies guys!

Yes, I know that somehow I need to get an official evaluation plus a translation service for his foreign transcripts...but does anybody know offhand how applicable some of the prereqs are going to be if they were taken in 2006?

We're definitely working on those other aspects, I am just glad I wasn't walking into a waste of time trying to enroll him into a cc.

Is there a recommended extracurricular that seems to be en vogue right now? I remember for med school there was a point where being an EMT was the thing, then it was research and publications, etc. What is important for pod students to round out their pre-pod experience? Thanks!

😛

Use WES to evaluate his foreign degree. I dont think it matters that his prereqs were taken in 2006.

 

[aimsz88]

Hi,


Sorry for the ignorant question...if I use WES will it be considered standard for all schools he applies to and acceptable for any academic purposes?

Wouldn't want to screw things up from the beginning. =)