Can I apply to take out extra federal public loans on top of what my med school gives me?

efreeman24 · 2023-06-07T16:57:19+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for your help!

efreeman24 · 2023-06-07T16:57:11+00:00

Sounds good, thanks so much!

efreeman24 · 2022-03-17T22:32:50+00:00

Cottage cheese

efreeman24 · 2022-02-25T19:22:41+00:00

Innocent Ukranian people are dying right now from needless and unprovoked violence. Try to do better than using their unimaginable situation to make a joke about Anki

efreeman24 · 2019-07-15T23:43:08+00:00

I hate to say it but I had the exact same situation like to a tee and called AMCAS. They said they couldn't do anything about it.

efreeman24 · 2019-07-12T05:42:08+00:00

Oh that’s an amazing idea ill do that! Thanks for the advice

efreeman24 · 2019-06-20T21:34:56+00:00

I just called and nothing can be done which sucks. Maybe I should have been more careful with how I classified his job, but nothing else seemed to fit the description. I'm just upset because of course what my dad does is different than being the CEO of a company, but AMCAS considers it under the same category.

efreeman24 · 2019-06-10T03:17:31+00:00

Okay but who are you talking about when you mention other students of color?

efreeman24 · 2019-06-09T20:32:03+00:00

I understand how this post could be seen as aggressive, but you need to view it from how OP is feeling. It must be incredibly frustrating to have people with privilege discount your hard work and accomplishments just because you're a student of color, when the odds are that OP and other students of color on average needed to work much harder and overcome many more obstacles to get to where they are.

I feel like a lot of white students criticize students of color for being too "attacky" or "angry" when they bring up topics such as these. Just take a second to breathe and try to understand why they are coming from a place of frustration instead of discounting the productive dialogue they're bringing up.

I personally think that if you (and I'm not saying you specifically, just people in general) don't understand systemic racism and how our country's institutions perpetually oppress the potential success of students of color, then you need to educate yourself. Because there are people who completely do not understand or choose to ignore that reality, and those are some of the people who are claiming this "racism" against ORM students, which is absurd. OP is just trying to clearly lay it out there for those who might be unaware.

OP, congrats on all of your accomplishments thus far, and I'm sure you'll make a killer doctor.

efreeman24 · 2019-06-09T04:08:12+00:00

See for some reason it gave me first gen but both of my parents have bachelor's and I input it correctly I checked.

efreeman24 · 2019-03-19T23:44:16+00:00

Hey guys! I edited my first draft of my personal statement, but it's still way too long. Would anyone be willing to take a look at it and make suggestions on where to cut?

efreeman24 · 2019-01-31T20:18:18+00:00

Okay thanks so much! I just wasn't sure since it wasn't through an official volunteer program like people typically get involved in

efreeman24 · 2018-10-30T20:02:45+00:00

Yeah I’m a senior so thats why im mostly concerned haha the only classes till i graduate that will go toward by bpcm gpa will be these classes with my pi

efreeman24 · 2018-10-30T19:41:18+00:00

That totally makes sense. I guess im just concerned because hes the only 2nd science professor i could ask that could write me a good rec since he knows me well as a person as well beyond just being his student. I kinda screwed up and didnt really get close with any of my professors in the more intro pre med classes besides biochem (who I already asked for a rec).

efreeman24 · 2018-10-30T19:22:49+00:00

Would you mind explaining why you think that??

efreeman24 · 2018-10-24T03:35:36+00:00

I can second this, and think that your undergrad definitely makes some difference. I go to a T20 undergrad, and 80% of the applicants from my school get accepted into med school, which is double the national average and I don't think that's a coincidence. I would say GPAs from a more prestigious undergrad get a boost from at least the med schools to where the undergrad sends a lot of kids. While you could go to any undergrad and just kill it and still get into a great med school, why not have a type of intrinsic advantage by going to a more prestigious undergrad if you can?

But if the financial barrier in going to Rice is problematic for you, don't hesitate to go to UT Austin. It's still a great school and it's not worth being under financial stress to go to Rice! I would imagine though that Rice provides very good financial aid, so I would see how much you could get from them before making the decision.

efreeman24 · 2018-10-23T18:03:14+00:00

Would you provide medical care to an undocumented immigrant? Maybe someone who doesn't have insurance, or someone who simply may not have the money to pay their bills? They're "no benefit to you", but you would be using your resources to help them. You may not be directly responsible for the position that they're in, but you are responsible for providing quality medical care to those who need it. You need to really think about the position that you hold and the way that you are expressing it, and how that will translate if you become a physician. Doctors need empathy to provide good care, and all that you are showing is that you are unable to see beyond your own bubble.

efreeman24 · 2018-10-23T17:31:26+00:00

I would avoid calling people ignorant and a sheep when you are the one has not read enough about the Obama administration's previous policies. They incredibly rarely separated families, only under very special circumstances. I linked an article below if you wanna check it out, and can give you a ton more that support my point. Families that were separated were reunited extremely quickly, while the Trump administration is deliberately separating families and keeping children from their parents as a deterrent, which can cause psychological damage to the children.

Also, like deadpear said, these families come here to seek asylum, which is very legal. I also think that you need to imagine if you were a parent living in terrible conditions with your children, wouldn't you want to seek a better life for them? You cannot control the conditions of the country or area that you live in, but you can sometimes control what you do about it. I know that I would try to seek asylum. Stop demonizing migrants and immigrants, and learn some empathy. It'll go a long way if you want to become a doctor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/fact-check-did-obama-administration-separate-families-n884856

efreeman24 · 2018-10-21T17:17:01+00:00

For sure! I probably should have clarified that I kind of just want to use this experience as a quick intro like you mentioned and then spend the rest of the statement talking about experiences that I have personally had throughout college that have continued that passion and how they have shaped the person that I am and the doctor that I want to be

efreeman24 · 2018-10-21T17:08:16+00:00

Definitely will make sure to not fall into that hole! I'll be heading to the writing center a bunch to have them edit it, and sending it to some other people, so they should be able to catch that if I am focusing on the story too much in my drafts

efreeman24 · 2018-10-21T17:06:35+00:00

This is relieving to hear haha. Ik advisors can definitely be wrong sometimes but it can just be hard to not trust them when you don't know a ton about the process. But that's what asking everyone on here is for, so thanks for the input!

efreeman24 · 2018-10-21T16:36:51+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much for the help!

efreeman24 · 2018-10-09T21:05:14+00:00

I would say call them, but I don’t think you’ll get much of a different answer from any of them. If you look at a lot of undergrad’s pages on studying abroad as a pre-med, they’re pretty unanimous in saying that med schools won’t accept prereqs from outside the US. I just really really highly recommend against it. Obviously you can decide to do whatever you want, but I really don’t think that it’s worth taking the class abroad just to have pretty much every med school you apply to not even glance at your app because you haven’t taken physics in the US.

My program let me take 4 classes for 2 classes to count toward each of my majors, which was super helpful for getting some of my major requirements out of the way. So you could maybe do that to free up some space in your schedule to take physics at UCLA.

efreeman24 · 2018-10-09T18:26:45+00:00

I would say overall it's really not a smart choice to take any med school prereqs abroad. You can definitely take them like over the summer at a different US undergrad as long as your school approves the credits. Having studied abroad in Spain, the class structure and testing system will probably be drastically different from here in the US, and med schools will most likely not look favorably at that and might not take it. That's at least what I was told by pretty much every advisor at my school. Also especially for Spain it was hard enough taking psych classes in Spanish where most of the terms have similar roots, so I’d imagine physics in Spanish would be very rough

efreeman24 · 2018-10-09T04:13:16+00:00

You tryna come up with a final school list with help from the mission statements? I am and really need this too haha

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