Zayan S.

I am an incoming medical student who got in the hard way, and I mean that in the best possible sense. I attended Saint Mary's College of California, not a prestigious pre-med pipeline school. I scored a 514 on the MCAT and only took the exam after the application cycle had already opened. I submitted my first secondary in mid-September, which is objectively late. I spent a majority of the application cycle traveling and took my MD interviews from overseas in Europe. By every conventional measure…