Steps To Get Into Med School With LOW GPA & 10+ yrs Since Graduating. #456 Part 3

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Dr. Nii Darko

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Your dreams of becoming a doctor don't come with an expiration date, but they do require careful planning and strategy especially for non-traditional students. In this episode we advise a listener who is interested in getting into med school on the steps she can take to increase her chances of being admitted. She is a non traditional student who graduated more than 10 years ago with a psychology degree. ...

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0:00.0	I am writing because I am an older non-traditional student. I have a BA and psych, but my GPA is low.
0:06.0	It's been nearly 13 years since I graduated. Do you have any suggestions on how I can become a better
0:11.3	candidate before applying to med school? I was accepted into master's in public health.
0:16.7	So if you were to give her a roadmap and you were to say step one do this, step two do this, step three do this.
0:24.0	For her, what would be step one for her?
0:26.5	So if Grace, if Grace were, if Grace were my student that I was working with based on the information that I have, what I would tell her is step one, call a few schools, or, you know, I always got to make a plug, go to the S&MA conference.
0:44.8	This year it's in St. Louis, but go to the pre-med exhibit hall, right?
0:51.3	The medical school exhibit hall and talk to every single recruiter.
0:56.1	There's usually 60 or more. Talk to every single recruiter at every single school and tell them
1:01.9	your story and ask them if that 10 years and beyond would be a problem for them in terms of
1:10.6	your prerequisites. Would you, would you qualify to
1:13.8	apply with 10 years and beyond? That's number one. Number two, chances are the answer is going to be yes.
1:21.3	So if the answer is yes, I would say just not even to go for the MPH. I would say just not even to go for the MPA, MPA.
1:31.2	I would say go and take your rewrite.
1:33.7	D enroll.
1:33.9	Because that's going to take you.
1:35.8	Yeah.
1:36.0	What of that MPS is at Harvard?
1:37.9	It'll be matter.
1:40.3	But what does it matter?
1:42.3	Right?
1:42.5	Because the,
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