This cycle or wait?

[VTBuc]

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So since everyone else seems to be doing it, here's a "what are my chances" thing.

 

[Stratego]

Other than the shadowing, have you done anything you´d consider clinical experience?

I´d list the science job under employment and give the details.

 

[VTBuc]

Other than the shadowing, have you done anything you´d consider clinical experience?

I´d list the science job under employment and give the details.

No...unfortunately in Blacksburg VA there's 1 hospital and a list of about 300 people trying to get experience there. Shadowing was about the only thing available. If I waited a year, I could try again for some more..

 

[Stratego]

I think waiting a year is your best bet. Also consider contacting volunteering offices at local nursing homes, free or family planning clinic, hospice care, or assisting students on campus with tasks of daily living as possible other venues for accumulating personal interactions with patients where you assist in their care. Maybe it would be easier to find something closer to home for the summer if you´ll be there.

Another year would give you time to raise the GPA or the MCAT score enough to get you out of the land of mediocrity. Not that it´s impossible you´d be accepted as you are, but you´re by no means a shoo-in since both stats are a bit subpar.

 

[JJMrK]

So since everyone else seems to be doing it, here's a "what are my chances" thing.


3.5 cumulative and science GPA.

VR - 11
PS - 10
Writing - Q
BS - 9
Composite - 30Q

1 year of research

100 hours of shadowing experience

1 year in a leadership program that included community service

A science-related job...this one's hard to explain. I work with pigs engineered to produce Factor IX...so it's somewhat pharmaceutical related. I am responsible for the health of the pigs, so I administer medicine to them and keep health logs, and I help with the extraction of Factor IX. I don't really know what to consider this experience though...

A non-science related job where I am an assistant manager

As far as clubs: AMSA and a weekly bible study, but that's about it. I've been in Relay for Life for every year since I was 16 and I put a lot of time into that, too.

Oh yeah, Virginia resident. 🙂

I think you've got a better than 50/50 shot this cycle. If you can improve some of your numbers and maybe do a little clinical volunteering, your chances for next cycle will probably go up.