After spending 4 years away at university, I had no choice but to come home to a family that uses screaming as their method of conversing with people. Lovely. The lack of freedom, the sharing of the bathroom, and the rotating car schedule is just what I needed. Last year I decided to apply to dental school even though deep down I knew I wanted to be a doctor. Needless to say I didn’t get into the 10 US dental schools that I applied to. Looking back there were plenty of things I did wrong. I didn’t send in my secondaries which is apparently a “no no.” I sabotage myself every time I wrote that damn dental admissions test by studying less and less each time and by scheduling my test date in the midst of midterms or finals. Given the effort, I did pretty well, well above national average but one section screwed me over and over again: The PAT. I obviously didn’t put in the effort even though I knew I was capable of getting in.
My last year of university I decided to take a bunch of biology courses and wished I had gone into biology because it was so damn easy. Once again I got to exercise my right to study the night before and it paid off every time! Taking a bunch of bio/anatomy courses made me realize what my passion was all along: Medicine. O and I did apply to dental school again just for the hell of it. Got rejected, but this time it was due to an unusual competitive applicant pool. Although I did make it in the top 4% at one of the schools I applied to. I have to say though, when I got that rejection letter, I went through denial, anger, and then sadness, and then back to anger! I think the problem with dental school is that there aren’t enough schools out there as oppose to medicine. I think one has a better chance of getting into medicine than dental school.
So here I am waiting and waiting for my last life line to be cut. I can’t tell you how nerve wracking and annoying waiting for a decision that could change the rest of your life! But, I know I’m not the only one and I guess I have to suck it up and stop being a whiny little bitch and wait just like everybody else. Not many people get the chance to apply to medicine so I have to keep telling myself that to make me feel better. OK, I’m done bitching for now.
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