and if you think living at home shows a lack of life experience and responsibility, what about the many other AA students who started their program right after graduating college (when many of them were still living with their parents)? i don't get why living by myself or with my parents matters in any way whatsoever.
it isn't realistic to just say, "millions of other people don't even have jobs and they can manage to live by themselves, so i'm moving out." why do i want to move out just so i can get deeper in debt and have the right to say that i'm on my own now? once again, an AA program interviewer is not going to ask me what my living arrangements are. also, how is living on my own and working a non-healthcare job going to count anymore as life experience than living at home and working a non healthcare job?
face it, my issues with my application are academic - low GRE and physics grades. if it wasn't for those 2 problems, my application would be more competitive than the applicants most frequently accepted by AA programs.
i'm already working on improving the low GRE quant score by taking a math GRE course from kaplan in the spring. i know you are going to ask why i'm waiting until the spring, so i will go ahead and tell you that that's the soonest time it's offered.
now, physics is just a god damn son of a b###h. i'll give you that. it's going to be a lot harder to improve on that. i guess i don't have any other option than to just suck it up, take it for a third time, and beg the AA programs for mercy.
i want a part time job because i will obviously be taking classes in the spring (physics of course and maybe one or two others) and because a lot of the jobs posted on the local hospitals' websites are PRN and part time (almost just as many of them as there are fulltime jobs). also, i would almost rather just work part time/prn and have the extra free time to study for the GRE and physics rather than work full time doing something that is hopefully only going to be temporary.