My journey to med school is somewhat unorthodox thus far. I spent my freshman year and sophomore fall knocking out a fair chunk of medical school pre-requisites and weekly volunteering at the cancer hospital on campus. I then transferred to a much better school within my state but found myself questioning whether a career in medicine was truly right for me. I spent my sophomore spring and summer after, as well as my junior fall and spring finishing up my sociology degree and taking a handful of electives of all sorts of disciplines (economics, sports management, history, you name it). Ultimately, I found myself unhappy and decided that being a doctor truly has been a dream of mine since I was young and that the break from science courses and clinical exposure helped me realize that. Problem being, I feel like I've seriously fallen behind on the pre-med track.
As of right now, I still have Orgo 2 with lab, Physics 2 with lab, Bio 2 with lab, and Biochemistry with lab. Current stats as of right now are a 3.78 cumulative GPA and a 3.65 science GPA. Luckily, I'm just about done with my sociology major (only one remaining 4 credit course) and can essentially devote the vast majority of my time toward focusing on sciences (potentially finding some electives to bring up the GPA if it wouldn't be overkill?), as well as building my medical school application through professional experience, shadowing, volunteering, etc.
My plan right now is to knock out Orgo 2 this summer (possibly the lab if they allow), while getting back into weekly volunteering, knocking out Physics 2 and Bio 2 and their labs with my final sociology class in the fall, and leaving Biochemistry for my Senior spring. After, of course, I will take a year or two off to improve the components of my application and prep for the MCAT.
My biggest issue as of now is the fact that I feel like I spent three semesters doing a little bit of everything instead of solely focusing on the end goal of medical school. My biggest accomplishments in that time being are working on a research project with the sociology department, as well as one with the sport's management department (which hopefully will be published this summer). I've also served this year as a founding member with an executive board position in a political organization on campus. While I've managed to do some things in this time that I could put on a medical school application, I consider these to be soft extracurriculars.
I was wondering what you guys thought about my future schedule of courses, as well as if you had any advice on how to build my resume this late into my time in college. I've been rather dependent on being able to volunteer at on-campus hospitals, so after graduation I'd like to get some professional work in a clinical setting (such as scribing, EMT training, etc.) but don't really know where to start.
Sorry for the lengthy post, I just feel as if my situation is unique in the sense that I didn't take the typical routeof knocking all of the pre-requisites out early and then spending junior/senior year volunteering, shadowing, working, studying for the MCAT, etc.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I really want to become as competitive as possible and am incredibly driven to make this happen. Thanks guys!
As of right now, I still have Orgo 2 with lab, Physics 2 with lab, Bio 2 with lab, and Biochemistry with lab. Current stats as of right now are a 3.78 cumulative GPA and a 3.65 science GPA. Luckily, I'm just about done with my sociology major (only one remaining 4 credit course) and can essentially devote the vast majority of my time toward focusing on sciences (potentially finding some electives to bring up the GPA if it wouldn't be overkill?), as well as building my medical school application through professional experience, shadowing, volunteering, etc.
My plan right now is to knock out Orgo 2 this summer (possibly the lab if they allow), while getting back into weekly volunteering, knocking out Physics 2 and Bio 2 and their labs with my final sociology class in the fall, and leaving Biochemistry for my Senior spring. After, of course, I will take a year or two off to improve the components of my application and prep for the MCAT.
My biggest issue as of now is the fact that I feel like I spent three semesters doing a little bit of everything instead of solely focusing on the end goal of medical school. My biggest accomplishments in that time being are working on a research project with the sociology department, as well as one with the sport's management department (which hopefully will be published this summer). I've also served this year as a founding member with an executive board position in a political organization on campus. While I've managed to do some things in this time that I could put on a medical school application, I consider these to be soft extracurriculars.
I was wondering what you guys thought about my future schedule of courses, as well as if you had any advice on how to build my resume this late into my time in college. I've been rather dependent on being able to volunteer at on-campus hospitals, so after graduation I'd like to get some professional work in a clinical setting (such as scribing, EMT training, etc.) but don't really know where to start.
Sorry for the lengthy post, I just feel as if my situation is unique in the sense that I didn't take the typical routeof knocking all of the pre-requisites out early and then spending junior/senior year volunteering, shadowing, working, studying for the MCAT, etc.
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I really want to become as competitive as possible and am incredibly driven to make this happen. Thanks guys!
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