SoleScholar
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MCAT came back, haven't taken physics or biochem, got a 500.
sciGPA is 3.42, cGPA is a 3.02
I believe I want to go into this field but keep having hesitations. I don't want to go to be an internist, or FM doc, or pediatrician which it seems most students from DO schools go into. Furthermore, I doubt I'd be even able to match into a surgical residency if I went to traditional medical school. That being said, I suppose it isn't possible to take a year off and increase my cGPA, retake the MCAT and actually study, get into a medschool and do some reinvention so I can get into a surgical residency (I like general surgery the most). But then most of the general surgeons I see in the hospital tell me not to do this route because it's soul draining, and when I shadow podiatrists they tell me to do podiatry because they love it and have time to see their family.
I don't know what to do. I'm going to apply to podiatry schools in the coming days. Hopefully I can get scholarships so I don't get crushed by debt.
sciGPA is 3.42, cGPA is a 3.02
I believe I want to go into this field but keep having hesitations. I don't want to go to be an internist, or FM doc, or pediatrician which it seems most students from DO schools go into. Furthermore, I doubt I'd be even able to match into a surgical residency if I went to traditional medical school. That being said, I suppose it isn't possible to take a year off and increase my cGPA, retake the MCAT and actually study, get into a medschool and do some reinvention so I can get into a surgical residency (I like general surgery the most). But then most of the general surgeons I see in the hospital tell me not to do this route because it's soul draining, and when I shadow podiatrists they tell me to do podiatry because they love it and have time to see their family.
I don't know what to do. I'm going to apply to podiatry schools in the coming days. Hopefully I can get scholarships so I don't get crushed by debt.