I have a BFA in painting from an accredited university, 3.6 gpa, graduated in 2010 with honors and received numerous scholarships, awards and honors. I have known that I wanted to go into medicine since my 3rd year in art school, but got talked into finishing my program because none of my credits were transferable. Seems stupid now that I have a useless degree in something I have no interest in, but there is nothing I can do about it.
I decided to take a year off from school to work to make sure medicine is what I wanted to go into. I worked as a part-time doctor's assistant and receptionist at an orthopedic office for about 10 months. I was basically forced to resign (it was a somewhat unorthodox place), but left on very good terms with everyone willing to give me a reference. The problem is now that I am unemployed and have not had any luck finding work of any kind. With the jobs reports for May and June, it doesn't seem likely that I will find work before applying to post-bacc programs this fall. To make things even worse, most hospitals and health clinics in my area are so over-whelmed with volunteer applicants that many have stopped accepting applications all together. I've applied to all that still accept apps and haven't heard back. I've called to follow up but they all tell me that if they find a spot for me and find me qualified they will call me. The icing on the cake is that I had to sell my car, which seriously limits the number of hospitals and clinics I can get to.
My question is if this gap in my resume will prevent me from getting into a post-bacc program? I have volunteered as a senior citizen mentor at a few community centers for over a year, but due to lack of funding, that program has ended. I even tried volunteering at an animal clinic but got turned away because they were overwhelmed with volunteers. Will my good academic record make up for this fact, even if it is in painting? I graduated high school with a 3.0 gpa and only got around 1100 on my SAT (not including writing section), but I am planning to take the GRE and have been getting 700-800 math and 500-600 verbal on practice tests. The more that I look at myself on paper the more I feel like a joke applicant.
I decided to take a year off from school to work to make sure medicine is what I wanted to go into. I worked as a part-time doctor's assistant and receptionist at an orthopedic office for about 10 months. I was basically forced to resign (it was a somewhat unorthodox place), but left on very good terms with everyone willing to give me a reference. The problem is now that I am unemployed and have not had any luck finding work of any kind. With the jobs reports for May and June, it doesn't seem likely that I will find work before applying to post-bacc programs this fall. To make things even worse, most hospitals and health clinics in my area are so over-whelmed with volunteer applicants that many have stopped accepting applications all together. I've applied to all that still accept apps and haven't heard back. I've called to follow up but they all tell me that if they find a spot for me and find me qualified they will call me. The icing on the cake is that I had to sell my car, which seriously limits the number of hospitals and clinics I can get to.
My question is if this gap in my resume will prevent me from getting into a post-bacc program? I have volunteered as a senior citizen mentor at a few community centers for over a year, but due to lack of funding, that program has ended. I even tried volunteering at an animal clinic but got turned away because they were overwhelmed with volunteers. Will my good academic record make up for this fact, even if it is in painting? I graduated high school with a 3.0 gpa and only got around 1100 on my SAT (not including writing section), but I am planning to take the GRE and have been getting 700-800 math and 500-600 verbal on practice tests. The more that I look at myself on paper the more I feel like a joke applicant.
