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Sorry for the long post. I'm frustrated and trying to gather my thoughts
My undergrad school is a pretty great state school but I had to move back home and its now too far of a commute to be practical in any way. I was last there almost 2 years ago. Now I have so much work todo in order to have a chance at med school. We're looking at a 2.0 - 2.2 I think over 100 credits. In and out of school for years, trauma, lacked financial stability- just nothing but drama just trying to get to school. I am now stable and in the financial position to do nothing but school for a couple of years. I would need to do the equivalent of a 2nd bachelor's which is fine. My life is different now than it was then
I have not graduated yet. I am technically close to graduation so if I took the courses somehow elsewhere, I can have them transferred to my home institution and graduate with that abhorrent gpa.
Obviously I need a much higher undergrad GPA to apply for medschool.
But here is the issue. I can't seem to transfer to a closer 4 year school with that GPA. Its one of those extenuating circumstances that I have to over explain each time. I might be able to transfer to the professional studies parts of private schools but essentially I lose half those credits and now tuition is what.. around 25k a semester? Without any extra financial aid available to me this is potentially a disaster
If you graduate and are a nondegree or postbacc student, getting seats in premed classes in most schools around here are super difficult. Can't apply for any grad programs with that bad a gpa.
Can't move back because part of the reason I moved home is my health and safety. I can move out now but to be so far from my support system just sounds like a terrible idea.
So how do I get into a situation where I can do a few years of GPA repair and prerequisites and move on with my life? Even if I did all my prereqs at community college, I can't apply DO without redoing upper division classes that are lower than a C at a cc.
The only maybe option I've seen available to me for any sort of higher education so far is a super expensive masters program in nursing that would raise my income (yay). But thats extra time away from the groundwork I need for med school.
I know for a fact that I want to be a physician; nursing is just more of a detour away from what I'm trying to do. People are right when they say choose one or the other.
Everywhere you look is people telling you how there is no chance with a low undergrad gpa so I'm trying to position myself to raise it. But how?
I don't know what to do
My undergrad school is a pretty great state school but I had to move back home and its now too far of a commute to be practical in any way. I was last there almost 2 years ago. Now I have so much work todo in order to have a chance at med school. We're looking at a 2.0 - 2.2 I think over 100 credits. In and out of school for years, trauma, lacked financial stability- just nothing but drama just trying to get to school. I am now stable and in the financial position to do nothing but school for a couple of years. I would need to do the equivalent of a 2nd bachelor's which is fine. My life is different now than it was then
I have not graduated yet. I am technically close to graduation so if I took the courses somehow elsewhere, I can have them transferred to my home institution and graduate with that abhorrent gpa.
Obviously I need a much higher undergrad GPA to apply for medschool.
But here is the issue. I can't seem to transfer to a closer 4 year school with that GPA. Its one of those extenuating circumstances that I have to over explain each time. I might be able to transfer to the professional studies parts of private schools but essentially I lose half those credits and now tuition is what.. around 25k a semester? Without any extra financial aid available to me this is potentially a disaster
If you graduate and are a nondegree or postbacc student, getting seats in premed classes in most schools around here are super difficult. Can't apply for any grad programs with that bad a gpa.
Can't move back because part of the reason I moved home is my health and safety. I can move out now but to be so far from my support system just sounds like a terrible idea.
So how do I get into a situation where I can do a few years of GPA repair and prerequisites and move on with my life? Even if I did all my prereqs at community college, I can't apply DO without redoing upper division classes that are lower than a C at a cc.
The only maybe option I've seen available to me for any sort of higher education so far is a super expensive masters program in nursing that would raise my income (yay). But thats extra time away from the groundwork I need for med school.
I know for a fact that I want to be a physician; nursing is just more of a detour away from what I'm trying to do. People are right when they say choose one or the other.
Everywhere you look is people telling you how there is no chance with a low undergrad gpa so I'm trying to position myself to raise it. But how?
I don't know what to do