Thursday, October 1, 2020

New to pre-med from pre-PA and looking for advice and guidance on where I can improve, or what I should change about my plan?


**please be nice :') I'm just looking for advice and some guidance.I recently switched to pre-med from pre-PA and I am currently a third year at UCLA. I just transferred but completed two summer sessions this past summer with a 4.00 (STEM courses), and had a community college GPA of a 3.88 (ochem made me sad).- I'm currently volunteering as a physical therapy aide for some clinical hours. I think by at least June of 2021, I'll have 600 hours from there.- I'm completing a volunteer/internship where I educate healthcare professionals, patients, research disparities, access to healthcare, etc. I'm not sure how many hours this is 0_0-I would have about 100 hours of research by June of 2021 at my university. I also have another research position set up (possibly, it depends on the pandemic) for me this upcoming summer at Stanford. I was a bit bummed out since I would have received 1000 research + clinical hours at another research position at Stanford this past summer, but covid :').- I currently have 200 hours of volunteering under Stanford (I live extremely close, I know my use of Stanford in this post is quite excessive LOL but as a community college student I really tried my best to make the best out of opportunities around me that I could not get because I was not at a university), but I'm planning to work more shifts once they allow volunteers to return again. I'm planning to join some clubs at my university as well with some remote volunteer opportunities!Yes, mostly everything was all hypothetical~ but I know me and I know that I will probably not go straight from university to medical school for the sake of my mental health and that I want to keep an upward trend of my GPA from community college. This means I am not taking the MCAT until late 2021 to apply for medical school for Fall 2023 matriculation. So if it takes until 2022, that will all be fine as well.I'm looking for advice on where I can improve (besides needing to take the MCAT which does freak me out quite a lot), or if this is good path for me? I'm really new to pre-med because I've been on the pre-PA path for awhile, but luckily all the requirements were almost the same :) I don't mean to brag in this post or anything, I just don't know if what I'm doing is right and I am actually very lost and I'm looking for wholesome advice!Note: I list "June 2021" as more of a "stepping stone". It's not that I'm stopping there, but it's to make sure I've achieved a certain number of hours by that time so I can keep myself on track! via /r/premed https://ift.tt/3n5JQVL

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