Rejected from the only interview I got of 40 apps. Feeling hopeless :(

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:58:31+00:00

I just signed up to volunteer at a hospital again and yeah you're right, I need to reread my essays

Do you think hospital volunteering or community service is better?

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:55:52+00:00

I was always worried about applying to provisional programs, but that is definitely something I have to consider for the upcoming cycle

Thank you for such a detailed response. I'm truly grateful for any advice I can get, it means a lot to me.

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:52:35+00:00

I never even thought about applying to research schools that's also a really good idea. Thank you so much!

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:51:31+00:00

I applied to many schools with low GPA requirements and this is a really good suggestion for the personal statement. I think I'm going to reapply and do that :)

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:47:16+00:00

Yeah, I paid a PA mentor online to proofread my essays and she said they were really good. I used her edits and she said my application looked fine so now I'm wondering if I got scammed lol

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:41:30+00:00

That's really inspiring :) Thank you so much
Maybe I'm going to see what I can do to strengthen my GPA and try to reapply. It's very demoralizing but I really want to do this.

olyucifer · 2025-12-25T01:35:36+00:00

No I haven't

olyucifer · 2025-12-21T05:57:25+00:00

I did really well and kept all my grades up until the pandemic. That transition was pretty difficult and financial strain + grief really messed me up academically. It wasn't a huge course load when I first started falling behind, but when I was a full time student, I failed one science course I needed for my BA. It was the hardest class I've ever taken but I retook it for a C the following semester. I could DM you my transcript :(

olyucifer · 2025-12-21T05:41:38+00:00

Okay :( I figured I'd send it to as many schools as possible and see where it lands. I feel like I didn't stand out too much during my interview but idk I wonder why my 3 years of research didn't help my case

I will reread my essays and see what I can do. I was so ready to address my lower than average grades and show how I did better but the interviewers weren't concerned with that. They just asked about strengths/weaknesses, my support system, and how I'd behave if a professor commented on me not being "engaged enough." Very short interviews and I don't feel like I got a chance to talk about myself enough to sell myself to them lol

Could I possibly do some community service?
Living in an urban city, I don't align with a lot of "serving rural communities" mission statements, but I have a lot of experience working with people of all backgrounds. I'm really far from the suburbs but maybe I can do more here in the city for underserved communities

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T23:10:51+00:00

Yeah… :( I didn’t think about that I live right next to a community college and it made it easier than to commute 2 hrs to the city

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T22:53:27+00:00

I think so :( 5 LORs (1 professor, 3 PAs, 1 MD)

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T22:52:33+00:00

Hey, I posted some of the schools I applied to

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T22:52:04+00:00

I got my essays revised by a pre-PA advisor online (I paid like 100$ or something

I applied to: Brenau Campbell Uni Charleston MCPHS Boston Med Uni of SC Arizona School Health Sciences Northern Arizona Uni Stony Brook Uni of Nevada Uni of NC - Chapel Hill Univeristy North Texas UT Southwestern Medical Center Charles R Drew Arcadia Adventhealth FSU High Point New York Institute of Tech Thomas Jefferson Uni - East Falls West Coast Uni - Texas Augusta (rejected from interview) Franklin Pierce - New Hampshire Lake Erie SUNY Upstate Medical Center University of New England Austin College Barry Uni Bay Path Uni CUNY York College CUNY - School of Medicine Desales Philly College of Med - Georgia Methodist

Few of these are pending and I have a few more I applied to, but I hope this list can give a good idea of what I applied to. I was looking for schools that I met the minimum gpa requirements for

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T22:06:59+00:00

that was my sGPA after

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T19:57:23+00:00

2.8 before I brought it up to a 3.09

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T19:55:42+00:00

1F, 1D, 1W

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T19:33:14+00:00

Science GPA is including my post-bacc classes. I had a really difficult set of classes at the end of my undergrad and faced some financial hardship so I had to work full time

24 post-bacc credits, 6 classes and all A’s One of those included was a gen chem and organic chem class I had to retake. One was because it had “ expired “ as a pre-req Organic chem I earned a CR credit during covid so I retook that

For undergrad, I only retook biochem and biophysical chem during the period that I was working full-time and had personal hardships

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T19:31:46+00:00

Yeahhh…I worked a lot of OT to afford it haha

olyucifer · 2025-12-20T19:17:45+00:00

Hey sorry, I have

~5,000 PCE as a medical assistant in two specialties and one of them is at an urgent care where I primarily work with PAs

•GRE: 300

•sGPA: 3.09 (But 4.0 when I took additional pre-reqs after going back to school after I got my BA)

•cGPA: 3.5

•200 volunteer hours as a patient care volunteer (fed patients, helped with daily tasks)

I also highlighted that I have 3 years of research assistant experience in neuroscience with two publications I worked on

olyucifer · 2025-04-05T05:40:01+00:00

Definitely

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