hi guys so today I wanted to talk about
sort of my academic story starting from
high school to college to med school now
so if you guys don't know I moved here
from Korea in seventh grade so I went to
seventh grade at a private Christian
school just to like not be around any
other Koreans to learn English and then
8th grade I was in public school and
then ninth grade I attended public
school as well so in high school my
parents told me that if I got straight
A's I would get a computer in my own
room so I really worked hard for that
ninth grade
so ninth grade I did really well in
school so I got straight A's um and
after getting straight A's they all
moved meet the school moved me to like
honors level classes
so starting 10th grade on my pretty much
like never got straight A's again so I
wasn't the best student in high school
like I wasn't a bad student but I guess
compared to some of the other students
who do really well in high school I was
not really that student so if you can
see my ninth grade I took like typical
English history I took Spanish as my
foreign language I did I was very active
in the band so I played a clarinet and I
play the trumpet in marching band so I
took a lot of music classes throughout
high school and that was sort of my my
hobby I guess so in a 10th grade I took
some AP classes I took some honors
classes and I remember thinking 10th
grade that it was actually really hard
to get adjusted to being in this new
environment of honors classes dealing
with like other students who grew up in
America spoke fluent English and they
were always in honors class he was like
starting from like a little sixth grade
or something
so I remember struggling a little bit
tenth grade and I started to catch up a
little bit 11th grade and by 12th grade
I was pretty comfortable and I had what
you guys would typically call like
senioritis where I pretty much like a
lot classes I didn't really take
anything that seriously I had a lot of
absences I took a lot of like take
classes like fashion design band
percussion ensemble music theory where
it's just like we just go and like you
get a good trade I can see here that I
got like C's and health in phys ed which
I don't know how it happened but
probably because I never wanted to go
but so after high school I attempted a
small liberal arts college in New York
called new school I didn't really want
know what I wanted to do so I think
that's why I didn't do as well in high
school because I didn't have that
direction I needed to do well and I
think either first or second year at new
school I took a neuroscience class and
that class really made me want to pursue
medicine so I started to look at other
schools to transfer to because useful
didn't have a lot of the traditional
science classes that you need to take to
to be prepared for med school basically
so I was looking at different schools in
the city to transfer to and I ended up
transferring to Barnard after spending
two years at U school so when I first
got to Barnard it was once again a
really big challenge because everyone at
Barnard I seem to know what they were
doing they everyone seemed really smart
so I remember like first year so I kind
of struggled I don't think that my
grades were that great at Barnard my
first year either but I got the hang of
things after one year and I started to
do well and I really started to work
toward my goal of going to med school
and I knew that I needed to
have a certain GPA and get a certain
score on the MCAT if I wanted to go to
med school so having those concrete
goals like really help me work hard and
studying at Barnard with my classmates
who are very smart and very competitive
ultimately helped me prepare for med
school so I guess world the story is if
you're not the best student in high
school don't worry there's plenty of
time to sort of redeem yourself or
remarket yourself to be able to go to
med school if that's your goal so if I
could go back and give myself some
advice for med school if that's your
goal here's what I would tell myself I
would say take it easy in high school
develop some hobbies have fun sleep and
you know develop like develop and find
out who you are and in college Dec good
grades and - all on your MCAT and you'll
be able to get into med school so I hope
you guys enjoyed this video let me know
if you have any questions in the comment
section and I'll see you guys in the
next video
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