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Hi! Email me at jessicakent38@gmail.com or IG @jessicak38 and we can talk offline. :)

@@jessicakent308 Hi, I followed you a couple weeks ago on IG :-)

I did some at a community college and most at a very small state college (it was not a university by any means or highly ranked college).

@@jessicakent308 Thank you for sharing! Your story is inspiring!

Thank you! Best of luck!!

Good luck with the postbac :). Yes, medical schools do not require you to have all the pre-reqs completed before applying to medical school. You just need to have all the pre-reqs completed prior to enrollment/matriculation (usually around May for most schools I believe). However, having some pre-reqs completed prior to applying is important to show them that you can succeed well in these classes.

@@jessicakent308this is very helpful, thank you! All the best throughout your med journey!!

@@jessicakent308Wow this is great to know! I thought that we needed all of the classes completed prior to applying. Thank you so much for sharing!

I did not do a formal post bacc program. I ended up taking the pre-reqs at various 4-year colleges and some community colleges in the area (sometimes up to an hour away) so that it would work around my work schedule. Yes they were in the evening. Some of the classes were hybrid with lectures online and only lab inperson in the evenings. The colleges I took the classes at were by no means large universities. I personally feel that it is okay to take the pre-reqs at a community college or 4-year college and not necessarily a big university such as UW-Madison or the University of Washington or UCLA per say as long as you had an undergraduate degree at a well-established university to prove that you can handle tough courses.

Thank you!!! A few were online only which allowed me a lot of flexibility. But most classes were hybrid due to COVID. So lectures were online (recorded lectures) while labs were in-person. I specifically took classes that had labs in the evening after work, but this did mean I had to take the pre-reqs at different schools in the area and travel further sometimes.

@@jessicakent308 You made it work! Thank you for sharing🙏🏿

Can we touch base over email? Jessicakent38@gmail.com. I am in the mist of exams so please give me a little grace in responding back.

can I email you too?

@@adejokea264 sure! Just give me some grace to respond back as I'm finishing up first year

www.mcatbros.com/mcat-studying-resources (just scroll down and you can download a digital version of the 300pg document). My advice is to just be patient with yourself. If you have been studying for a very long time for the MCAT ie. 4 months without much score improvement, reflect if it is truly the content knowledge you are lacking or the way you are approaching/understanding the question. Good luck!!

Yes! My results came in the same day I was able to submit my primary application. I took my MCAT at the end of April

@@jessicakent308 how is it possible to get the results the same day?

The mcat score release date just happened to be the same day amcas allowed us to submit the primary application. The aamc will tell you what day mcat scores will be released based on your test date

Yes you can apply without finishing all the pre reqs! You can also apply without your MCAT too but some schools may hold your application until they recieve your score. Personally I'd recommend applying with a score so you make a more informed decision of what schools to apply to

No, I am not working in medical school. I'm in an accelerated curriculum so it would be hard to work and go to school at the same time...

No it was hybrid! Most lectures were online while labs were inperson due to covid

I did! I actually had these experiences never intending to go to medical school. It was just I loved volunteering at the hospitals and working with patients. Prior to my MBA, I worked full-time as a Patient Oncology Coordinator and a year volunteering at a Children's Hospital. I also had other experiences from working as a physical therapy intern and volunteering with the Vasculitis Foundation. In terms of doctor shadowing hours, I didn't have many hours as a traditional applicant (ie. less than 40 hours?) I don't remember specifics.

Thanks very much. I am currently a Medical Lab Technologist and looking for patient care roles.

Sure, but take it with a grain of salt as I scored pretty much similar to my first practice exam and the real exam. I would do the AAMC CARS question bank or Jack Westin, I felt like those were most helpful. With each sentence, as I read I would summarize back the gist of the main point of the sentence. This helped me get a full picture of what was happening as I read and actively recalled the passage. Sometimes with questions, it's more about excluding which answer is wrong and then selecting whichever one was left, if I got stuck on a question. I know it's easy to highlight everything in the passage but try to be selective on what you highlight, such as key words or main points (opinions, events, etc) in the passage.

Thank you! No, I actually took the MCAT before finishing most of the prerequisites. I only had a few classes under my belt before I took the MCAT and finished most of them after the exam. I started studying for the MCAT when I started my prerequisites. I did create a video on the timeline of when I took the MCAT and my pre-reqs time line.

I had around 350 ish questions left. Most were CARS questions that I didn't do for Uworld. I studied 4-5 hours during the week day and I often did practice problems that correlated with my pre med classes if possible. The weekend I studied 10 to 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

Wow that's crazy! I work full time also but did you end up studying before or after work? How did you not burn out?@@jessicakent308

So you studied about 20 hours per weekend?

Thank you! Check out my other video on how I studied. I listed out the timeline and the resources I used in the video description. But in summary, I used a combination of Kaplan, TPR, MCATBros (pych/soc only), Uworld, and AAMC Q bank

And like why MD

Since it sounds like studying for the mcat was tedious I know I personally am Not a fan of the organic section

My bachelors was in business. I love healthcare, but at the time I was scared to take the prereqs and apply to medical school to change careers so I thought maybe I'll try a healthcare focused MBA. I realized I love healthcare but what I loved too is working with patients. I missed that so much when I left my old job. I also received a merit-based scholarship for MBA so it covered nearly 100% which I was so thankful for and thus completed my MBA prior to MD.

@@jessicakent308how can I get a 100 percent merit based scholarship?

Aw thank you! Yes I finished all the pre-reqs and I am just finishing up my first semester of medical school :)

Thank you!!

Haha, I used to play competitive golf since I was 8. I can hit a driver around 230 yards, a 7 iron 150 yards, a pw 115 yards for reference

@@jessicakent308 wow u should create a golf lesson video

@@koreannomad9131 I had a team that did a golf start up, but I took the website down since starting school. Our channel was GolfScope. th-cam.com/video/ItWlio7uK_o/w-d-xo.html

@@jessicakent308 wow you have really good form... i have a tendency to chunk/fat my irons or have my chest and head move forward to the target in the downswing which ruins the club path. I am bout to binge watch the golf scope videos and hopefully I will get something out of it.

I studied for exactly 4 months while working and going to school (Jan-April). As someone without a science background and purely seeing bio, chem, and physics for the first time, I found Kaplan books most helpful for biology, biochem, and Ochem (I had an older edition that was 5 years old). Especially for biology, Kaplan broke it down enough for me to understand things. Princeton Review was best for General Chem and Physics. For the psychology/sociology, the 300-page document from MCATbros was amazing (I studied this in 3 weeks and did just fine). Hope this helps!

MCAT test is really frustrating, I can't believe I failed again after studying so much. 🤦‍♂️💔😭

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Yes an MD! I've always thought about doing medicine but switching careers seemed too daughting. I thought a healthcare focused MBA would satisfy my love for medicine but what I missed most was working with patients. I hope to use my MBA and MD together in the future