Aloha!
I am a newbie to the site and am 42 yo with 3.5 yo intow. I graduated with BA degree in 1993 and have since completed LMT- Massage training, studied craniosacaral for 5 yrs under DO, completed EMT training and worked in industry for 3 years back in 1998, have been practicing LMT- Massage Therapist since 1995 and in past two years completed Structural Integration training in Boulder. I am 100% committed to the pursuit of DO and am doing research on what comes first- it seems to be taking all the undergrad work again since the timeline is over the ten year mark. If anyone has experience or knowledge on what the DO colleges do with “non-traditional” students please let me know. Thanks for tuning in! Also tips on studying for MCAT after being out of school for so long.
Hi Oceans
you have a great background that I am sure will interest many schools. I don’t want to say anything that would be wrong, but it seems that DO schools are for the most part very non-trad friendly (if I am wrong, I am sure that someone will correct me). Not that MD schools are not, but it is just an impression when reading posts on this forum.
As for the MCAT that I took not so long ago (and on which I didn’t do as well as I would have liked), I would say to review all the basic science and practice a lot of verbal. Give it some serious time and DO NOT RUSH. the MCAT is not that simple to crack.
Good luck.
There is a non-trad student at my school with a very similar background to yours – a licensed Massage Therapist who had worked for 6 years with a D.O. I believe your background will be very valued as you apply to osteopathic schools, including and perhaps especially the craniosacral experience.
Regarding redoing “basically all the undergrad”, the core science courses are required to be within the last 10 years for many schools, but the other credits (english, math, etc), generally are not of concern. For myself, I retook only the core prereqs (2 semesters of Bio, Inorganic Chem, Organic Chem and Physics, with labs). I’d had statistics, Calculus, Genetics, Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, etc in the 70’s 
Didn’t think about redoing those and no one ever suggested I should have. That’s my perspective on it.
Kate