5 years ago, I started following Goro's guide to reinvention. Well, I'm here now.
I am a non-traditional student that started his first bachelor’s degree way back in 2011 and graduated nearly 8 years ago. I graduated with a non-science degree and wasn’t even thinking of medicine back then. Ended up with a 2.10 cGPA (plenty of Fs, Ds, Cs, and Ws). After graduating, I went into a career in IT for several years before some major life events made me consider medicine instead.
In 2021, I started a second degree, this time a BS in Biology at a local state school. Maintained a 3.97 over the last 80 hours, only earning one B. Unfortunately, my cGPA is still below 3.0 and my sGPA is still relatively low because many of the Fs I got during my first degree were in BCPM classes (Calculus, gen chem). Any Fs are from 10+ years ago.
School list:
I'm applying to all TMDSAS MD schools plus (maybe?) the following private OOS schools:
I am a non-traditional student that started his first bachelor’s degree way back in 2011 and graduated nearly 8 years ago. I graduated with a non-science degree and wasn’t even thinking of medicine back then. Ended up with a 2.10 cGPA (plenty of Fs, Ds, Cs, and Ws). After graduating, I went into a career in IT for several years before some major life events made me consider medicine instead.
In 2021, I started a second degree, this time a BS in Biology at a local state school. Maintained a 3.97 over the last 80 hours, only earning one B. Unfortunately, my cGPA is still below 3.0 and my sGPA is still relatively low because many of the Fs I got during my first degree were in BCPM classes (Calculus, gen chem). Any Fs are from 10+ years ago.
- Second bachelor’s 3.97 (around 80 hours of just science)
- MCAT: TBD but AAMC FLs are 515+ so far. Taking the real thing in May.
- AMCAS cGPA 2.82, sGPA 3.07 (That first transcript kills these stats)
- Texas resident
- Hispanic/Latino - fluent spanish speaker and have used this in my clinical volunteering
- Public state university graduate
- 150 hours clinical volunteer experience in a free clinic, lots of patient interaction translating (spanish) for physicians, taking vitals, etc
- 1200+ hours of research, two posters, no pubs yet
- 60 hours shadowing. ID and Ortho represented.
- 60 hours non-clinical volunteering
- 6 strong rec letters, including 2 PIs, 2 science faculty, 1 MD, and 1 director of the clinic I volunteer at.
School list:
I'm applying to all TMDSAS MD schools plus (maybe?) the following private OOS schools:
- Nova (MD)
- University of Miami
- CMS at Rosalind Franklin
- Rush
- Tufts
- Cal Northstate
- Loma Linda
- California university of science and medicine
- Wake Forest
- Dartmouth
- Cooper Rowan
- Hackensack
- Albany Medical College
- Jacobs
- NYMC
- Drexel
- Geisinger
- GWU
- MCOW
- Tulane
- Oakland University Beaumont
- Loyola
- Lewis Katz
- Geisinger Commonwealth
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