Thinking about taking the plunge

[dakotadpg]

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I have been following SDN for the past 5 years, which included my wife getting into and then graduating from Med school this past Spring.

Like everyone here, I want to become a physician. One part of my mind tells me to quit my job and go full-time at finishing my pre-reqs, shadowing, etc. but the other part tells me to stay at my job and go part-time at finishing pre req classes.

The problem is I just finished my MBA this Spring. During the second year however, I took my Bio prereqs and volunteered at a hospital for a year while I was doing all the MBA stuff. I have a healthy amount of debt, in addition to my wife's debt from 4 years of med school.

Is going straight from an MBA program to prereq med school work going to raise any concerns with admissions committees? I have part-time work experience in a physical therapy setting and in optometry from college. I believe that I have very strong reasons for pursuing medicine. My stats are decent, about 3.6 overall and science (AMCAS) 3.8 (Osteo), however I have 6 prereqs to go, so there could be a big variance how it would end up. Obviously MCAT is a huge unknown as well, the only thing I have to compare to is GMAT and LSAT scores that were both in the 90-95th percentile ranges.

Anyway, sorry for another one of these threads, but I would just like to know for others in my situation whether going full steam seems like bad idea at this point. Thank you all in advance for any input.

 

[Law2Doc]

Is going straight from an MBA program to prereq med school work going to raise any concerns with admissions committees?

It's not insurmountable, but you probably have to explain away why you got this degree you will never really use, and concerns that you are some sort of professional student and too unfocused on what you want to do for a living. (The fact that you took the LSAT too probably adds to this concern.) As long as you have a good story as to why medicine, and why now and why did you do the MBA then you are fine. Significant health ECs will help a lot.

 

[dakotadpg]

It's not insurmountable, but you probably have to explain away why you got this degree you will never really use, and concerns that you are some sort of professional student and too unfocused on what you want to do for a living. (The fact that you took the LSAT too probably adds to this concern.) As long as you have a good story as to why medicine, and why now and why did you do the MBA then you are fine. Significant health ECs will help a lot.

Thanks for the input. Yeah, I started a JD/MBA program for all the wrong reasons, stopped the law part of the program and finished the MBA to show that I could follow through with it. I also believe some of the skills from the MBA program will benefit me no matter what I do in the future, including medicine.

 

[Law2Doc]

I also believe some of the skills from the MBA program will benefit me no matter what I do in the future, including medicine.

Absolutely run with this. Adcoms are receptive to nontrads who bring transferable skills.