Dilemma-I need some outside input?

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<p>I originally started college with pretty stellar grades. I was pre-med going for cardiology but then I started working in the ER and absolutely hated it. I decided that an MD was not really what I wanted to do with my life because I'm really interested in medical research. Well I had a rough spring semester my sophomore year of college, got a D in Chem II and failed another class. My life seriously fell apart, I suffered depression and while I'm not making excuses, I just fell hard. I toyed with the idea of law school instead but after one semester in poli sci I knew it was not for me. Nothing about law interests me and I know something in the medical field is where I'm destined to be.</p>

<p>The problem is I am having issues with financial aid. Because I was in IB/AP in high school, I came to college with 60 credits. Since I'm a transfer student, this put me at a junior status and my college is saying that I technically should have my degree by now and my financial aid will be cut off in 2 semesters (not just scholarships, even loans too!); however, some of my credits were duplicated from high school and they refuse to take off these duplicated credits. If they took off the credits I would transfer in as a sophomore and that would give me 135 hours to finish my degree, plenty of time. I've been to the financial aid office, the registrar and ungrad academic services. No one will help me. As of now I am going for a psych degree because that's the only thing I could complete in 2 semesters. I am still trying to get this financial aid thing sorted out, but I really don't want to do psych. It is not my passion. What do you think I should do? Part of me just wants graduate and get out of school, but part of me knows that I will be miserable with a psych degree and that I really want to do something medically related.</p>

<p>What should I do? Private loans are an option and I am going to make a financial aid appeal, but I don't have a guarantee that I could pay my way through school.</p>

<p>***Note: I cannot ask family/my parents for help. There is no one in my family contributing toward my education, I work to pay for college and I take out loans. I pay for everything by myself.</p>

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<p>Better love psych major if you want to become a doctor. As a doctor you will work with a human being, not with a body :). </p>

<p>I think you should finish a Psych degree, take extra classes in Bio, Chem, Math, physics that all medical school require. You will be safe to apply for medical schools this way .</p>

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<p>I would definitely look into public or international health studies (if your school doesn’t offer it as a major, it might offer it as a minor, specialization or concentration). If not, I would just try to finish your psychology degree, focusing on those classes related to the medical field (ie cognitive science or health psychology) and complete the pre-med track (even if you aren’t going into med school, just for the background) if possible. I’m not sure if you are interested in grad school but I’d encourage you to apply into a public/international health or epidemiology grad program.</p>

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<p>compaq 10, I don’t want to be an MD, I want to get a PhD in immunology. I’m not applying to med school.</p>

<p>thank you fa-la-la-lena, if I complete the pre-med track though, I’ll still be over hours, I think I might as well just change my major then, or go for both degrees. We’ll see.</p>

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<p>if you like medical research better start getting used to chemistry.</p>

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<p>Thanks for stating the obvious LastThreeYears. I’m very aware its a chemistry based field.</p>