I wanted to get some other opinions on what else they would have done if they didn't get in this cycle.
For me I think I would have put more time into my MCAT. I scored a 28M on it. I thought that with what I was doing at the time (working 48 hours a week and taking two classes at the U of A) it would still have been a decent score to get me into my state school. I have worked roughly 10,000 hours since I have been in college (4 years), been part of a research team for 1 1/2 years and am published, took 156 units in college, and graduated with a bachelors in physiology with a cumulative GPA of 3.746. I have also worked in the hospital for the last 1 year and 3 months, as well as shadowed a physician since spring of 2010. Also, I am a 26 year old non-traditional student who didnt graduate high school, dropped out when I was 15, moved out of my parents home to enter the world as a homeless person, which was better than the poverty, physical, and mental abuse I went through. I have held numerous jobs from being a personal trainer, gym membership salesman, café shop worker, pizza delivery driver, furniture salesman, commercial plumbing construction worker, blood gas technician, blood bank technician, medical technician, and an employed research assistant. I have asked for advice from my mentor and he told me just to keep up with the medically related work, and really not to worry about my MCAT for the school I want to go to. He is part of a medical college and I appreciate his advice very much.
However, I feel I am pulling at straws right now. I have only interviewed at two schools, both in state, and havent heard anything from the MD schools I applied to out of state. Its already January and therefore me getting interviews from here seems slim to say the least. I am taking two masters physiology classes and will get my masters if I dont get accepted this cycle. Besides that I dont know what else to do?
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Colts1
For me I think I would have put more time into my MCAT. I scored a 28M on it. I thought that with what I was doing at the time (working 48 hours a week and taking two classes at the U of A) it would still have been a decent score to get me into my state school. I have worked roughly 10,000 hours since I have been in college (4 years), been part of a research team for 1 1/2 years and am published, took 156 units in college, and graduated with a bachelors in physiology with a cumulative GPA of 3.746. I have also worked in the hospital for the last 1 year and 3 months, as well as shadowed a physician since spring of 2010. Also, I am a 26 year old non-traditional student who didnt graduate high school, dropped out when I was 15, moved out of my parents home to enter the world as a homeless person, which was better than the poverty, physical, and mental abuse I went through. I have held numerous jobs from being a personal trainer, gym membership salesman, café shop worker, pizza delivery driver, furniture salesman, commercial plumbing construction worker, blood gas technician, blood bank technician, medical technician, and an employed research assistant. I have asked for advice from my mentor and he told me just to keep up with the medically related work, and really not to worry about my MCAT for the school I want to go to. He is part of a medical college and I appreciate his advice very much.
However, I feel I am pulling at straws right now. I have only interviewed at two schools, both in state, and havent heard anything from the MD schools I applied to out of state. Its already January and therefore me getting interviews from here seems slim to say the least. I am taking two masters physiology classes and will get my masters if I dont get accepted this cycle. Besides that I dont know what else to do?
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
Colts1