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1. cGPA: 3.5 sGPA: 3.31 I did better my senior year.
2. 515, even distribution
3. Texas
4. Hispanic
5. Texas Public Univ
6. Clinical experience: 30hrs at children health clinic, ~2000hrs as an EMT. 12hrs at local hospital (this was only 1 shift, so not sure if I should even put it on my app).
7. Research: ~200hrs during my freshmen spring & sophomore fall semesters. Program was for entering students who want to do research. So the opportunity ended after my sophomore fall, and I ended up not joining another lab after cause I wanted to spend my time elsewhere. In the brief time I did research, I did a poster presentation and our poster got 1st place at the undergrad research symposium. Not sure if it matters, but I was one of the 4 students who made the poster
8. Shadowing: 20hrs shadowing pediatrician. 10hrs shadowing internist. 20hrs of online shadowing. I also shadowed a NP for 20hrs. Not sure if I should put that on my app. I also shadowed a case manager for behavioral child and adolescent cases for 20hrs. Kid would come in with his parent, and I would observe how the case manager would set up a goal plan for the kid. The place I did this at was a behavioral health clinic. Not sure what the education background for the case managers were. Not sure if I should put this on my app either.
9. Community service: 20hrs at nursery home for patients with Alzheimer's. 20hrs for another environment friendly org. 50hrs tutoring kids. 60hrs at a food bank.
10. Other: So when you enroll into the under grad research that targets freshmen, you have to take a fall class that basically gets you ready for your research in the spring. My sophomore semester I was a mentor to the students who were coming in. Responsible for 8 students. It was kind of like being a TA, but the class was a lab. I was also an LA for a chem class my sophomore spring semester.
11: Jobs: I worked throughout college, retail, being a mentor, and now doing EMS.
12: Low GPA worries me. I also have like 2 Q's on my transcript. One of them being a science class I thought I was gonna fail (sophomore spring), and the other being a non-science I should have never taken (sophomore summer). A good handful of C's. Senior GPA is looking good, but TX schools have really high GPA standards.
Should I be doing a post-bacc? The thought of doing another year of undergrad just kind of depresses me. I'm a senior now, so I didn't apply my junior year like some premeds do. If I did take a gap year, I would work mainly on my grades, keep working EMS, and try to get meaningful community service cause I think what I have so far is pretty generic.
2. 515, even distribution
3. Texas
4. Hispanic
5. Texas Public Univ
6. Clinical experience: 30hrs at children health clinic, ~2000hrs as an EMT. 12hrs at local hospital (this was only 1 shift, so not sure if I should even put it on my app).
7. Research: ~200hrs during my freshmen spring & sophomore fall semesters. Program was for entering students who want to do research. So the opportunity ended after my sophomore fall, and I ended up not joining another lab after cause I wanted to spend my time elsewhere. In the brief time I did research, I did a poster presentation and our poster got 1st place at the undergrad research symposium. Not sure if it matters, but I was one of the 4 students who made the poster
8. Shadowing: 20hrs shadowing pediatrician. 10hrs shadowing internist. 20hrs of online shadowing. I also shadowed a NP for 20hrs. Not sure if I should put that on my app. I also shadowed a case manager for behavioral child and adolescent cases for 20hrs. Kid would come in with his parent, and I would observe how the case manager would set up a goal plan for the kid. The place I did this at was a behavioral health clinic. Not sure what the education background for the case managers were. Not sure if I should put this on my app either.
9. Community service: 20hrs at nursery home for patients with Alzheimer's. 20hrs for another environment friendly org. 50hrs tutoring kids. 60hrs at a food bank.
10. Other: So when you enroll into the under grad research that targets freshmen, you have to take a fall class that basically gets you ready for your research in the spring. My sophomore semester I was a mentor to the students who were coming in. Responsible for 8 students. It was kind of like being a TA, but the class was a lab. I was also an LA for a chem class my sophomore spring semester.
11: Jobs: I worked throughout college, retail, being a mentor, and now doing EMS.
12: Low GPA worries me. I also have like 2 Q's on my transcript. One of them being a science class I thought I was gonna fail (sophomore spring), and the other being a non-science I should have never taken (sophomore summer). A good handful of C's. Senior GPA is looking good, but TX schools have really high GPA standards.
Should I be doing a post-bacc? The thought of doing another year of undergrad just kind of depresses me. I'm a senior now, so I didn't apply my junior year like some premeds do. If I did take a gap year, I would work mainly on my grades, keep working EMS, and try to get meaningful community service cause I think what I have so far is pretty generic.
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