it wasn't until i met until one of my mentors, i was fortunate to meet early on, doctor raymond garcia. they meant introduced me to their previous students who had gotten into medicalschool , who were residents and who shared with me for example you have to take classes to improve your mcat scores. that community service that i was doing with my church and on campus could count towards community service for medical applications . these are things that i think people a lot of people around them are doctors, it's kind of intuitive but i didn't know. doctor garcia was really instrumental because i went to this large commuter school where a lot of people wanted to go into medicine but few people made it and i remember my career counselors often when i told them i wanted to go to o medical school they said you're not going to get in. there are plenty of people with your profile, your scores and everything else who apply and they applied to 40 medical schools they don't get into any. i talked to doctor garcia and he said in that case you need to apply to 41 fax schools wh