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Perelman School of Medicine info session feedback

Coming from Samuel Fels High School, a school where you have to walk through a metal detector just to entire the building and not have the option to wear a hood really allowed me to be grateful. Grateful for having the opportunity to entire the doors of Perelman School of Medicine for something as simple as an information session about medical school and the application process. Being in that beautiful lecture hall with the sound of classical music in the background really made me feel as if I did not belong here. It made me feel as if I had infiltrated a caste system in higher education in which only the elite and wealthy were apart of. The thought of everyone in the room having a 3.8 gpa or higher and stellar MCAT scores while coming from top universities was really intimidating. I usually try not to compare myself to others but in order to attend a school such as Penn Medicine, I am going to need live up to their standards.

I really want to be apart of this system. To be apart of the prestige, the notoriety of attending an institution such as Penn Med. Looking at my statistics and numbers now, I have a 0% chance of attending this school. My gpa is only a 2.74, I have a failing grade on my transcript along with a W (withdrawl) and I do not have any close relationship with any professors being a sophomore in college. Should I give up on this dream altogether on going to Penn Medicine? Of course not. I just need to work very hard, harder than I could possibly imagine to live up to their standards of academic excellence. As a minority, underrepresented in higher education, I feel as though I can be an exception if I push myself to really achieve this goal. I’ll go into detail in another story on specifically why I want to become a Doctor and why Penn Medicine in the first place, but the whole point I am trying to make here is that I can attend this school if I give it everything I got within my heart and soul.