Christian Women in Leadership

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today I met a black woman from church who is a professor at the medical school I want to attend. I had no idea she was a medical school professor, she is a PhD not M.D., although I knew she was a professor at this University. I said (before I knew her exact employment), "I'm applying to go to medical school. I want to go to ______ " At which she told me she was on faculty there. Then she told me she knew the admissions people. Then she told me she could get me an interview....

These are my thoughts on the matter. I have really good grades, volunteer work, my recommendations should also be strong because I asked professors who loved me and a doctor who thought I would definitely get accepted (he has more confidence in me than I do). It doesn't hurt to know people.

On paper, it looks like I should have all the advantages, considering my parents are both D.V.M.'s However, when you throw in the reality of my life, I haven't had the advantages at all, and I will omit the details at this time. It's about time I had one or two advantages in my favor.

Probably, I could get accepted on my own. probably. But I'm going to take this advantage, if it really is an advantage, and run with it. Considering another disadvantage I have is that I am age 27. (It would be easier if I were age 21!)

Also, I just haven't had the advantages these last several years because I've had to study and support myself, whereas other people in my program had parents or spouses who would bend over backwards for these people to become doctors. I've had no one to pay my bills besides me. And it just really sucks to have to work so much and study. It feels like being pulled in seven directions at once.

The only plus to this lifestyle is that my current routine makes medical school look like a paradise, since I will only have to focus on one thing (academics), unless I had a boyfriend, although medical school will be much more intense academically than anything I have ever experienced.

Speaking of supporting myself, I have to go to work now.

posted by the princess @ 3/13/2005 01:59:00 PM