Hello, I hope this is not too out of place but I figure I should give it a shot. You never know, maybe I'll find reinforcement or extreme discouragement. Either way, here we go.
My goals are the same as everyone else that posts here. Med school. However, my background is torrential. Until the last year and a half of high school, I was probably the strongest academic achiever. However, I fell into immense depression because I identified as transgender. Deciding to transition, I found myself at disfavour of my family and I took care of what I had to do for my own sanity, and that was to fully transition. However, in doing so, I had been removed from school from absences and immediately tested for, and received a near perfect GED score. (Haha, I know what you are thinking.)
In that time, I've attended 2 community colleges. The first one was a disaster. I got kicked out of my home for having completed the standards of care associated with transgenderism and was forced to miss the end half of the semester. (Family angst) Leaving me with an A-, a C+, and a B- on that transcript. The B- was anat and phys, the C+ was gen. chem. I found a very stable living situation at the hand of a very supportive husband. Since then, I started at a new CC and have attained 52 credits ( all which transfer with equivalency to my 4 year of choice) with an exact perfect 4.0. I am now transferring to University of Michigan to complete the rest of my required prerequisites (I saved most of them for the 4 year). I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa at my college, an offshoot of Phi Beta Kappa and will graduate with honors from that CC and then transfer to the 4 year where I am sure I will do immaculately on my coursework. I have 2 years in-hospital volunteer work logged thus far, as well as a very active community service role in PTK.
My problems and questions for you all surround the unorthodox nature of my "fight" as I would prefer to call it. Concern #1) I have a GED ( with high ACT), and community college framework before entering a 4 year. Should I just stop right there? Will that cripple me? Concern #2) I probably made a huge mistake by transferring my grades from my first community college, in which I have a glaring A-,B- and C+ transfer equivalency credit on my otherwise pristine current CC transcript. Though the GPA is unaffected, I will have to present that old transcript to any med school I'd try to apply for. Would I be better off finding a way to untransfer (If that is even possible) the grades from my old college? Or am I screwed from the get go? That would be awesome if I could just get enrollment to knock off those 3 transferred grades and pretend that first transcript never existed, locking it away forever...
Anyway, I realize this was a long and spirited text and I hope I can get some information from it. I know that I am not as far as others that usually are concerned about applying for med schools, but I know I will be. The problem is, with such "tarnishes", is there even a possibility? Even if I blow the MCAT out of the water and do perfectly at the 4 year I transfer to, with all the EC under my belt?. My study habits are incredibly strong as always, and I am determined to go all the way with this. I hope I'm not just wasting my time. Thanks.
My goals are the same as everyone else that posts here. Med school. However, my background is torrential. Until the last year and a half of high school, I was probably the strongest academic achiever. However, I fell into immense depression because I identified as transgender. Deciding to transition, I found myself at disfavour of my family and I took care of what I had to do for my own sanity, and that was to fully transition. However, in doing so, I had been removed from school from absences and immediately tested for, and received a near perfect GED score. (Haha, I know what you are thinking.)
In that time, I've attended 2 community colleges. The first one was a disaster. I got kicked out of my home for having completed the standards of care associated with transgenderism and was forced to miss the end half of the semester. (Family angst) Leaving me with an A-, a C+, and a B- on that transcript. The B- was anat and phys, the C+ was gen. chem. I found a very stable living situation at the hand of a very supportive husband. Since then, I started at a new CC and have attained 52 credits ( all which transfer with equivalency to my 4 year of choice) with an exact perfect 4.0. I am now transferring to University of Michigan to complete the rest of my required prerequisites (I saved most of them for the 4 year). I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa at my college, an offshoot of Phi Beta Kappa and will graduate with honors from that CC and then transfer to the 4 year where I am sure I will do immaculately on my coursework. I have 2 years in-hospital volunteer work logged thus far, as well as a very active community service role in PTK.
My problems and questions for you all surround the unorthodox nature of my "fight" as I would prefer to call it. Concern #1) I have a GED ( with high ACT), and community college framework before entering a 4 year. Should I just stop right there? Will that cripple me? Concern #2) I probably made a huge mistake by transferring my grades from my first community college, in which I have a glaring A-,B- and C+ transfer equivalency credit on my otherwise pristine current CC transcript. Though the GPA is unaffected, I will have to present that old transcript to any med school I'd try to apply for. Would I be better off finding a way to untransfer (If that is even possible) the grades from my old college? Or am I screwed from the get go? That would be awesome if I could just get enrollment to knock off those 3 transferred grades and pretend that first transcript never existed, locking it away forever...
Anyway, I realize this was a long and spirited text and I hope I can get some information from it. I know that I am not as far as others that usually are concerned about applying for med schools, but I know I will be. The problem is, with such "tarnishes", is there even a possibility? Even if I blow the MCAT out of the water and do perfectly at the 4 year I transfer to, with all the EC under my belt?. My study habits are incredibly strong as always, and I am determined to go all the way with this. I hope I'm not just wasting my time. Thanks.
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