aWishingSoul
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Read through other peoples WAMC but really need to get this off my chest.
Long story short I feel like I have absolutely no hope. I started college in 2015 at a CC(in the midwest where I am from) then transferred to a small private liberal arts college in CA in 2016 because I was a college athlete chasing the dream not caring about school(had like a 2.8 cGPA and 2.9 sGPA). I had a crazy life experience in CA and realized that medicine was it and transferred home to a notable university. My first semester I struggled because of insanely larger class sizes and my ADHD that I was diagnosed with as a child, but then started getting help from proper resources and never went below deans list, averaging a 3.7 cGPA and 3.4 sGPA. I also changed my major to a social science major that focuses on children and families. I am primarily set on being a DO because of the focus on peds, internal medicine, and family med. I legitimately would loooooove to work in a rural area in MT, ID, WY, SD, ND, UT, or WA due to having lived in rural MT.
This is what I look like:
-My overall cGPA is a 3.41 and sGPA is a 3.25.
-I have worked 3 summers at a peds oncology camp in MT.
-100+ Hours shadowing various family med and pediatricians.
-Worked 2 jobs while at university(non health related, janitor and office assistant for business graduate program) 29hrs/wk.
-Volunteered in hospital and as a children’s bball coach for a lot of hours.
-Member of and held positions in fraternity, specifically for STEM oriented people.
-Member of Pre-Students of Osteopathic Medicine
-Will be receiving STRONG LOR from DO who is also associate professor for pediatrics at DO school where I’m from.
-PS also struggling to find science faculty LOR because I was not a science major and don’t want to ask my med school requisite professors because those were like 300+ kid classes.
-I graduated this past spring and have been working in child care for the past 8 months 33hrs/wk due to losing my 2 university jobs cause of covid. Taking the year off to study for the MCAT and possibly get phlebotomy certification.
Long story short I feel like I have absolutely no hope. I started college in 2015 at a CC(in the midwest where I am from) then transferred to a small private liberal arts college in CA in 2016 because I was a college athlete chasing the dream not caring about school(had like a 2.8 cGPA and 2.9 sGPA). I had a crazy life experience in CA and realized that medicine was it and transferred home to a notable university. My first semester I struggled because of insanely larger class sizes and my ADHD that I was diagnosed with as a child, but then started getting help from proper resources and never went below deans list, averaging a 3.7 cGPA and 3.4 sGPA. I also changed my major to a social science major that focuses on children and families. I am primarily set on being a DO because of the focus on peds, internal medicine, and family med. I legitimately would loooooove to work in a rural area in MT, ID, WY, SD, ND, UT, or WA due to having lived in rural MT.
This is what I look like:
-My overall cGPA is a 3.41 and sGPA is a 3.25.
-I have worked 3 summers at a peds oncology camp in MT.
-100+ Hours shadowing various family med and pediatricians.
-Worked 2 jobs while at university(non health related, janitor and office assistant for business graduate program) 29hrs/wk.
-Volunteered in hospital and as a children’s bball coach for a lot of hours.
-Member of and held positions in fraternity, specifically for STEM oriented people.
-Member of Pre-Students of Osteopathic Medicine
-Will be receiving STRONG LOR from DO who is also associate professor for pediatrics at DO school where I’m from.
-PS also struggling to find science faculty LOR because I was not a science major and don’t want to ask my med school requisite professors because those were like 300+ kid classes.
-I graduated this past spring and have been working in child care for the past 8 months 33hrs/wk due to losing my 2 university jobs cause of covid. Taking the year off to study for the MCAT and possibly get phlebotomy certification.
