permasenior
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Hey everyone! I am weighing whether I apply this cycle or not and would love feedback.
I'm a 33 year old software developer that has been working as a team lead for 9 years. I'm in a bit of a unique situation in that I applied to medical school in the 2014 and 2015 cycle, but didn't receive any acceptances. I received interviews, but I lacked a solid understanding of my reasoning for wanting to pursue medicine, which definitely showed through to the adcoms. I continued improving my app, but my career as a software engineer took off and took front stage for awhile, but medicine always remained the eventual goal. Because of this, some of my extracurriculars are quite old, so I'm unsure if I should include them. My application so far is looking like this:
33 years old, white male
3.81 GPA (3.75 sGPA)
522 MCAT (130/131/130/131) [previous app 510]
150 hours as a volunteer tutor for underserved primary education students (since '24, continuing)
100 hours as a volunteer at various activities through work (unfocused, but in the community such as trail cleanup, making toys for children, etc) ('18 - '24)
50 hours as a volunteer at Habitat for Humanity (construction projects for low income families, helping customers at their store) (since 1/25)
50 hours as a Hospice volunteer, directly interacting with patients (since 1/25, continuing)
150 hours directly assisting patients in the VA Nursing Home ('16 - '18)
1000s of hours of leadership as a software development team leading, leading multiple disciplinary teams, aligning projects with leadership, and mentoring less senior engineers (since '18, continuing)
100 hours of undergraduate research in a neuroscience lab studying neural pathways and vision (paper was published but I was uncredited) ('14 - '15)
300 hours of industry research at Netflix developing new techniques of determining causal inference in online experiments (since '24, continuing)
40 hours shadowing (16 Family Practice, 16 Ophthalmology, 8 Pediatrics)
Do I have enough *recent* clinical experience to apply this cycle? Is it going to be a problem that my prereqs are so old (hoping my MCAT proves I still have it)?
I'm a 33 year old software developer that has been working as a team lead for 9 years. I'm in a bit of a unique situation in that I applied to medical school in the 2014 and 2015 cycle, but didn't receive any acceptances. I received interviews, but I lacked a solid understanding of my reasoning for wanting to pursue medicine, which definitely showed through to the adcoms. I continued improving my app, but my career as a software engineer took off and took front stage for awhile, but medicine always remained the eventual goal. Because of this, some of my extracurriculars are quite old, so I'm unsure if I should include them. My application so far is looking like this:
33 years old, white male
3.81 GPA (3.75 sGPA)
522 MCAT (130/131/130/131) [previous app 510]
150 hours as a volunteer tutor for underserved primary education students (since '24, continuing)
100 hours as a volunteer at various activities through work (unfocused, but in the community such as trail cleanup, making toys for children, etc) ('18 - '24)
50 hours as a volunteer at Habitat for Humanity (construction projects for low income families, helping customers at their store) (since 1/25)
50 hours as a Hospice volunteer, directly interacting with patients (since 1/25, continuing)
150 hours directly assisting patients in the VA Nursing Home ('16 - '18)
1000s of hours of leadership as a software development team leading, leading multiple disciplinary teams, aligning projects with leadership, and mentoring less senior engineers (since '18, continuing)
100 hours of undergraduate research in a neuroscience lab studying neural pathways and vision (paper was published but I was uncredited) ('14 - '15)
300 hours of industry research at Netflix developing new techniques of determining causal inference in online experiments (since '24, continuing)
40 hours shadowing (16 Family Practice, 16 Ophthalmology, 8 Pediatrics)
Do I have enough *recent* clinical experience to apply this cycle? Is it going to be a problem that my prereqs are so old (hoping my MCAT proves I still have it)?
