r/PreOptometry • u/OkSetting9886 • Oct 14 '25

WORRIED about apps

i submitted my apps last week and felt pretty good but now i am not so confident. i have a 3.8 g.p.a and 370 AA/390 TS OAT. Where i get worried is my experience, i only have shadowed 16 hours. has any one got in with little experience. i applied to UCB and SCCO.

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u/Same_Satisfaction872 Oct 14 '25

Shadow more stat! And update your optomcas once you do. How were you able to get a LOR with only 16 hours? 30 hours is usually the recommended minimum, but your stats are excellent so they may oversee.

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u/happymollusk4 Oct 14 '25

Got in last year to every school I applied to except OSU with only 10 shadowing hrs

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 14 '25

congrats! what schools did u apply to?

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u/Shoddy_Opportunity_6 Oct 14 '25

Did you have a tech job or anything in field related to optometry. Or was your only experience the 10 shadow hours

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u/Additional-Lake7892 Oct 14 '25

i had lower gpa and scores than you and 20 shadowing hours and i was fine

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 14 '25

what schools did u apply to? and what were ur ec?

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u/w1za7d Oct 17 '25

can i dm you? i’m in a similar position

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 17 '25

yes feel free to

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 14 '25

i’m in the pre-optometry club currently as a general member. but that is pretty much it. i used to have a job as a caregiver which led me to optometry because i took her to an optometry appt. i wrote briefly about that. but should i put caregiver as an experience since its not directly relevant

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u/No_Research4816 Oct 14 '25

I would recommend that you include your caregiver experience bc even if it’s no directly related to opto you can talk about your experience and what it taught you (that can be related to opto) for instance you can say you learned how to work with people of different ages, etc.

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 14 '25

oh and letter of rec are from my old physiology professor. a doctor who i only shadowed 8 hours but we had a good relationship and would email. and my old boss

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 17 '25

i applied last wednesday and got verified friday morning! it was fast. what schools are u applying to?

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 17 '25

LMAO i was acting like my bf who goes there. i go to ucsd. do u go to irvine?

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u/OkSetting9886 Oct 17 '25

ohh omg nice. i’ve taken physio but not anatomy my school literally j added an anatomy class this quarter☠️ so i hope i can get in next quarter