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Hi Everyone,
I apologize if this has been addressed before. I'm new to SDN. I have tried to go through many previous threads and received a lot of great information about the program, however, I still have some questions.
I am confused about the whole 1 class at a different institution part of AFS. Let me give you a little bit of background on my situation: I went to college in Texas, received my Bachelor's degree in biology, but ended up with a very poor GPA of 2.1 due to family situations and just not being responsible. I have been working in research ever since I graduated. I have been doing a lot of soul- searching recently and I have realized that while I do enjoy research, my true passion lies in working directly with patients.
That being said, I am hoping to be able to be able to work with patients as soon as possible. I have a few questions at this point:
- I am a little confused as to how the whole situation works in terms of taking one class at a different college. For example, if I were to attend a community college and receive a certification or associate's degree through a program at the college, would I need to invoke AFS before I apply to the community college? I know that none of the courses I have currently taken will count as pre-requisite courses, so I was hoping to have some of those pre-requisites done with before I get into medical school.
- Also, is it possible for me to enroll in another bachelor's program (to have a back up in case I'm not able to get into medical school, and to complete the pre-requisites for medical school)? If I were to do this, would I basically just invoke AFS before I applied to the bachelor's program?
- Am I able to apply to a program now at one school (let's say a community college), receive a certification/associates from them, and then apply to a university and immediately invoke AFS? In that case, would I only need to take one course before I can apply to medical school (given that all of my pre-requisite courses are complete)?
I called TMDSAS for more clarification, but either the person on the line did not understand my (lengthy) questions, or did not know the answer. I was told that the information can be found online.
Sorry for the long post. Thank you all so much in advance for your replies!
I apologize if this has been addressed before. I'm new to SDN. I have tried to go through many previous threads and received a lot of great information about the program, however, I still have some questions.
I am confused about the whole 1 class at a different institution part of AFS. Let me give you a little bit of background on my situation: I went to college in Texas, received my Bachelor's degree in biology, but ended up with a very poor GPA of 2.1 due to family situations and just not being responsible. I have been working in research ever since I graduated. I have been doing a lot of soul- searching recently and I have realized that while I do enjoy research, my true passion lies in working directly with patients.
That being said, I am hoping to be able to be able to work with patients as soon as possible. I have a few questions at this point:
- I am a little confused as to how the whole situation works in terms of taking one class at a different college. For example, if I were to attend a community college and receive a certification or associate's degree through a program at the college, would I need to invoke AFS before I apply to the community college? I know that none of the courses I have currently taken will count as pre-requisite courses, so I was hoping to have some of those pre-requisites done with before I get into medical school.
- Also, is it possible for me to enroll in another bachelor's program (to have a back up in case I'm not able to get into medical school, and to complete the pre-requisites for medical school)? If I were to do this, would I basically just invoke AFS before I applied to the bachelor's program?
- Am I able to apply to a program now at one school (let's say a community college), receive a certification/associates from them, and then apply to a university and immediately invoke AFS? In that case, would I only need to take one course before I can apply to medical school (given that all of my pre-requisite courses are complete)?
I called TMDSAS for more clarification, but either the person on the line did not understand my (lengthy) questions, or did not know the answer. I was told that the information can be found online.
Sorry for the long post. Thank you all so much in advance for your replies!