To anyone else who is about to reply with another self-righteous and condescending message:
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Yes, I know my ec’s suck. I didn’t have anyone to tell me what was important in the college application process until the end of the junior year before it was too late. I had the polar opposite of helicopter parents. I realized that things will need to be different in college, especially since I’ll be applying to medical school (to your sincere displeasure). Also, this was a class as part of my school day, not an “extracurricular” but anyways, I took a class that I had to apply for, and I was given the opportunity to be on the hospital floor, interacting with patients, as well as interacting with doctors and nurses as we learned from them. Each week we were on a different floor of the hospital (icu, surgery, radiology etc) so I’m not oblivious to how a hospital works or feels like. I described this experience in my essays.
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Yes, my stats (gpa+sat) suck. See the beginning of number 1 for commentary. In addition, some people either aren’t good at standardized tests or get hyper-anxious the morning of (that’s me) and cannot think straight during them no matter how high their scores on practice tests were. To judge somebody’s fit for a college or being a pre-med based on a sat score is probably one of the most misguided and ignorant things to believe. I do plan on studying as early as possible for the mcat (as soon as I start taking or have finished the majority of courses on the mcat). Also, after this revelation at the end of junior year, I took 7 ap classes this semester to see if I could really handle a fraction of the undergraduate work of a pre-med. A’s in all but 1 of them (high b in physics 2). The classes included things like calc bc, stat, eng lit, and physics 2. A’s were made in ap chem and ap bio years before which are relevant to my major.
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To who posted about me “not having a clue” of medical school admissions because I have the audacity to want good research opportunities: research is still a good thing to have on your application, but more importantly, I actually am interested enough in biochemistry to want to do undergraduate research in it, even if its not required for medical school.
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Many people who were superstars in high school are now failures, and the opposite is true. It is quite noteworthy that you guys are too ignorant to see that or acknowledge that people can change.