Why I Keep Seeing 3.5 GPA Premeds Outperform 4.0s

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• MI

  @MichaelMinhLeMD · 6 months ago (edited) · pinned

  💌 &nbsp;I want to see full Applications that got into T20s: <a href="https://bit.ly/IKeepSeeing3GPAPremedsOutperform4_031726_1">https://bit.ly/IKeepSeeing3GPAPremedsOutperform4_031726_1</a>

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• SE

  @selfishhorse123 · 4 months ago (edited)

  I used to think I was just being antisocial not a good fisher of opportunities, but honestly I think I was just lost trying to become someone I wasn’t. I met this girl from my school’s pre-med frat who seemed perfect. Research labs, tutoring, TA work, student government, orchestra, insane GPA, surviving finals week sleeping on the floor type dedication. Meanwhile I was a freshman struggling in chem, comparing myself to everyone around me, wondering why I felt so behind. Then I realized something ugly about myself: I picked biology/pre-med mostly because everyone around me was doing it. My siblings are successful in medicine too — one is a veterinarian, the other is an internal medicine resident — and ever since I was little I’ve always felt “less than” them academically. So I kept chasing this image of the perfect pre-med student because my parents wanted it badly, and because I thought maybe if I followed the same path I’d finally feel worthy too. But there are literally thousands of pre-med bio majors exactly like that. Trying to survive someone else’s dream. I recently changed my major from biology to psychology, and honestly it felt like the first decision I made for myself instead of for validation but not gonna lie haven’t told my parents yet. I’m still figuring life out — currently stuck between dental school and becoming an anesthesiologist assistant — but at least now I’m trying to figure out what I actually want. And maybe that’s enough for now. I still feel like an imposter around smarter and more accomplished people sometimes. But I realized the goal isn’t becoming “perfect” overnight. It’s continuing anyway, learning anyway, and slowly building your own life instead of copying someone else’s footsteps. And I don’t feel bad from my God knows 3.1-2 gpa as a freshman on her finals week and I enrolled in two summer classes to fix my gpa up a little more.

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• DO

  @DonElPadron · 6 months ago

  Damn I was just watching Amanda’s videos the other day. She’s getting the job done!

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• JO

  @Joshua-qy8zd · 6 months ago

  Reminds me of me right now pre med in the hospital ER as a volunteer and some days just feel daunting like I don’t belong or that im a burden. Something still drives me to go every week though and that is the interaction with patients and helping them make their day

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• SA

  @sandywave4971 · 5 months ago

  What a helpful video, you could hold yourself back with ego and high expectations vs. just putting in lots of unglamorous slightly embarrassing work. <br><br>Very insightful for not blocking your own career goals

• DR

  @drhjhulsebos · 6 months ago (edited)

  Manly because I winged the MCAT and got a 92nd percentile to get into medical school and played a lot of rugby in college which attributed to a 3.5 GPA.

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• AJ

  @ajllama · 6 months ago

  &quot;Dumber&quot; is probably the wrong word. I wouldn&apos;t call someone that isn&apos;t a complete book warm, gunner, and no social skills that got a few C&apos;s in prereqs &quot;dumber&quot;.

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• AL

  @aliablackwell8311 · 6 months ago

  I only quit hospital volunteering to focus on a more rewarding volunteer job. But only once the better option was secured after 2 years.

• UP

  @upwithkate · 6 months ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFpKJKSpa2k&amp;t=780">13:00</a> my advisor said the same thing about clinical research since thats an area i dont have xp in, the hunt for a supportive thesis PI continues

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• SK

  @skoldpadda9 · 6 months ago

  What is a 2.20 MCAT? Man proving again he&apos;s not afraid to embarrass himself. (your content is excellent... but we all make errors)

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  @2008bscott · 3 months ago (edited)

  Respect it but I take issue with that anecdote about your research versus your role model&apos;s(and I get you may have made it up). &nbsp;The fact is, your lab and research environment and area of study may been have different and thus had differing standards and timelines for publishing high impact work. &nbsp;Some fields could take several (like 4-5 years) years to culminate in a 1st author paper in a prestige journal no matter how much you like it, how much you work, etc. &nbsp;Sometimes things just do not work out the way you wanted or envisioned and that is okay. &nbsp;For example, you could get scooped if in a particularly competitive niche of research. &nbsp;So many things can happen. &nbsp;If what you said is true/real, please do not view it as a personal failing of yours back then or lead others to believe that a similar situation they may have had was that. &nbsp;And yes, I understand that you were illustrating a broader point about chasing an unattainable achetype, but I think details sometimes matter and people(including yourself) need to show themselves some grace when in the face of some of these challenges.

• TH

  @TheShezar · 5 months ago

  What is a 2.20 MCAT?