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Hi everyone,
I migrated to Canada when I was 18 and I did my A-levels in Dubai. My background is that my entire family is quite religious and is from (you guessed it) Pakistan. I did not put in the energy into developing my English in HS and lower and I only took biology, chemistry, calculus, and physics in HS and I never really learnt English or put in the effort so well. In Canada, my dad took me to the in state university, and I got myself enrolled in life sciences majors in the first year which was the year we moved to Canada(eastern).
I had already been a little bit familiar with the material in HS and since i really liked science, i had done well(3.7+) in the first year. During the second year I got terribly sick (have chronic colitis and ended up getting pulmonary embolism in lower right lobe) and ended up doing terrible in genetics 1 and some other courses as I was just barely recovering from it(parents and doctor pushed me into uni, not even a month out of the hospital). my GPA during this year fell to 3.0. i had never talked to or stayed in touch with any professor and the support system here was not very good as far as career/academic counselling goes. In third year i did amazing again taking things like physiology, biochem, etc.. and some chem minor courses finishing with a 3.6.
In fourth year i somehow started feeling the effects of the disease creep up, combined with no academic counselling, i decided to take advanced classes like immunology, genetics 2,cancer biology, endocrinology, and a whole lot of chem minor courses however the profs in 4th year were so brutal that i ended up with a 2.4 bringing my gpa down from cGPA 3.4 to a 3.0 cGPA as i did really bad in fourth year and had a 2.4sGPA. My biggest concerns were that professors would not guide me on anything at all, were super cut-throat/weeders, and i got treated as an outsider all along, had 0 study friends mostly due to the fact that i am brown and look like those middle easterners and most importantly due to not having people skills combined with having a poor English skill set.
WHAT can i do to take myself out of this mess if i want to go to medical school in North America? I know i will suffer immensely in CARS section with the current level of english, but pls give me suggestions on what to do and what to take to make my English improve? I know i need 2 more years in upper level undergrad for sure but need advice.
I migrated to Canada when I was 18 and I did my A-levels in Dubai. My background is that my entire family is quite religious and is from (you guessed it) Pakistan. I did not put in the energy into developing my English in HS and lower and I only took biology, chemistry, calculus, and physics in HS and I never really learnt English or put in the effort so well. In Canada, my dad took me to the in state university, and I got myself enrolled in life sciences majors in the first year which was the year we moved to Canada(eastern).
I had already been a little bit familiar with the material in HS and since i really liked science, i had done well(3.7+) in the first year. During the second year I got terribly sick (have chronic colitis and ended up getting pulmonary embolism in lower right lobe) and ended up doing terrible in genetics 1 and some other courses as I was just barely recovering from it(parents and doctor pushed me into uni, not even a month out of the hospital). my GPA during this year fell to 3.0. i had never talked to or stayed in touch with any professor and the support system here was not very good as far as career/academic counselling goes. In third year i did amazing again taking things like physiology, biochem, etc.. and some chem minor courses finishing with a 3.6.
In fourth year i somehow started feeling the effects of the disease creep up, combined with no academic counselling, i decided to take advanced classes like immunology, genetics 2,cancer biology, endocrinology, and a whole lot of chem minor courses however the profs in 4th year were so brutal that i ended up with a 2.4 bringing my gpa down from cGPA 3.4 to a 3.0 cGPA as i did really bad in fourth year and had a 2.4sGPA. My biggest concerns were that professors would not guide me on anything at all, were super cut-throat/weeders, and i got treated as an outsider all along, had 0 study friends mostly due to the fact that i am brown and look like those middle easterners and most importantly due to not having people skills combined with having a poor English skill set.
WHAT can i do to take myself out of this mess if i want to go to medical school in North America? I know i will suffer immensely in CARS section with the current level of english, but pls give me suggestions on what to do and what to take to make my English improve? I know i need 2 more years in upper level undergrad for sure but need advice.
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