WAMC - 33 y/o, Engineer

[permasenior]

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Answered, thank you!

 

[BritainKittenMittens]

Solid stats, good volunteering experience maintained after graduating. If you apply broadly, I'd be more surprised if you didn't get into any medical school. Some schools expire the pre-reqs after a while so you have to research which ones those are.

 

[Goro]

You're a rock star, so aim high. Continue to engage in clinicval exposure. Get in a little more shadowing, like 10-20 hrs worth.

I'm big fan of people who work in hospice, so keep on doing that.

I suggest these schools.

Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Harvard
JHU
Mayo
Northwestern
NYU
U Chicago
U Penn
U VA
Vanderbilt
WashU
Yale
Case
Hofstra
Stanford
Baylor
BU
Pitt
Sinai
U MI
USF Morsani
UTSW
Brown
Kaiser (only 50 seats!)
Rochester
SUNY-SB
U AZ-P (favors westerners)
USC/Keck
Albert Einstein
Dartmouth
Emory
NYMC
Ohio State
U Cincy
U IA
U MA
UCSF
Creighton
Gtown
Hackensack Meridian
Jefferson
Miami
NYU-LI
SLU
Tufts
U CO
U VM
UCF
UCLA [likes disadvantaged]
Uniformed Services University/Hebert (just be aware of the military service commitment)
VCU
Western MI
Your state school(s)
Yes, it's a long list. Your job is to cull it down, based upon your needs/interests.

 

[Dral]

You should be good. Keep up the clinical work and maybe a day or two more of shadowing.

Assuming good letters, your main hurdles are nailing a convincing narrative and personal statement. As long as those are polished and you interview well, you should hopefully be in good shape.

 

[permasenior]

You should be good. Keep up the clinical work and maybe a day or two more of shadowing.

Assuming good letters, your main hurdles are nailing a convincing narrative and personal statement. As long as those are polished and you interview well, you should hopefully be in good shape.

Is it going to be a challenge having no recent academic letters? I’ve considered reaching out to previous professors, though I doubt they’ll have much to say at this point. I have plenty of professional references that would write a good letter, but I assume that will not be sufficient.

 

[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

Is it going to be a challenge having no recent academic letters? I’ve considered reaching out to previous professors, though I doubt they’ll have much to say at this point. I have plenty of professional references that would write a good letter, but I assume that will not be sufficient.

Take a few science electives and get letters from there. I graduated in 2014 and was an engineer for ~10 years, I got some from my local CC.

 

[AmIReallyAboutToDoThis?]

Hi! New here but definitely in the same boat!

33. Graduated forever ago. I'm taking 2 classes now (senior level biochem and senior level Bio). Strong MCAT score (517), and having trouble figuring out if my credits have expired. Long story short, I feel that they have.

 

[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

Hi! New here but definitely in the same boat!

33. Graduated forever ago. I'm taking 2 classes now (senior level biochem and senior level Bio). Strong MCAT score (517), and having trouble figuring out if my credits have expired. Long story short, I feel that they have.

Most schools don't care as long as you have something recent showing you still got it, but some do. Just gotta look at MSAR individually.

 

[ridebiker]

Hi! New here but definitely in the same boat!

33. Graduated forever ago. I'm taking 2 classes now (senior level biochem and senior level Bio). Strong MCAT score (517), and having trouble figuring out if my credits have expired. Long story short, I feel that they have.

34 here, applying this cycle. My school list right now is 29 schools, and only one has a specific for when pre-reqs expire. You might be surprised. use MSAR and look at each school you are interested in. If there is one that you are very interested in, but see that your pre-reqs would be expired for them, e-mail their admissions office and ask if they make exceptions for non-trads. You never know unless you ask

 

[ridebiker]

Is it going to be a challenge having no recent academic letters? I’ve considered reaching out to previous professors, though I doubt they’ll have much to say at this point. I have plenty of professional references that would write a good letter, but I assume that will not be sufficient.

I reached out to one of my main professors from undergrad (graduated 13 years ago) and asked for a letter recently. I detailed which of her classes I took, significant internships/projects I presented for her classes, grades etc. I offered to do a Zoom meeting to get her up to speed on what I've been doing since graduation, and why I am pursuing medical school. I totally expected to be ghosted, but she responded and remembered me and all of my work, we had a meeting and she is writing me a letter! I'm sure it won't be my strongest letter ever, but I have other strong physician letters that will be on my app and only using hers for the few schools that specifically required 2 science letters.