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