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Updates, updates, and more updates
So after a month, I am here to give two updates:
1. I got my MCAT score back last month and it was AWFUL. I got a 489, which I can now say and tell others without bursting into tears. The day I got my score I was in denial for a while that I had hopped into the shower and gotten all dressed and everything... but as soon as I pulled up the score on my computer and not just my phone and saw it on my 32in computer screen I knew there was no doubt that that was my score. I told my two coworkers what happened while in tears thank god I was working from home so that they knew that I wasn't just blowing off doing my work but had just been hit by the rough news. Thankfully they both were so supportive and understanding since they too had taken the MCAT previously and know just how hard it is. I still want to apply this cycle so I already have my retake scheduled for May 19th only 3 days after my 23rd birthday and I am busting my butt studying. I have even gone as far as getting a physics tutor so I can better understand the concepts. I am also trying to find a tutor for any of the chemistry sections, but hopefully, especially biochemistry.
2. Update numero dos, I recently typed up my personal statement to just get ideas on paper. There wasn't much of a big plan on how it was going to go, all I did was pick the events/characteristics that I wanted to convey in my paper and then just kind of wrote a stream of consciousness conveying my story. I thought that I had written a paper that was going to have to be written and rewritten hundreds of times before it would ever be ready to be submitted... but after my coworker (who has gotten accepted to medical school before and has gotten her masters) read it she was speechless. She told me that she has read dozens of personal statements before but has never had a paper that flowed so well. My paper told my story on why I want to become a doctor and did not leave her just wanting to finish reading it, but rather wanting to read/know more. That it was the perfect paper for interviews since there were so many things that they could pick from to just start talking about and not out of confusion but because they would want to learn more. While she was telling me all this I couldn't help feeling overwhelmed and so happy that I started to cry because as terrified as I am to not getting into medical school this moment helped me realize just how much I really do want this. To know that not only I know how badly I want this, but to now be able to express and show to others just how much I want it means everything to me. To have someone that's outside of my family hug me and tell me directly to my face that they cannot wait to see me get into medical school and HOPE that I get in is something I never expected.
This time in my life is hands down one of the hardest and most stressful, but I won't ever change it for the world, or regret it. I will become a physician no matter how long it takes me.
writing my personal statement for my dream uni and I'm shaking in my heels
“please let me in im smart and funny i promise”
wish my personal statement could just say 'let me in please i prommy im nice' and the universities just let me attend.