I Need Advice

[purpledancinduc]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am currently a sophomore at St. John's in NYC, majoring in Biology, and minoring in Psychology. Podiatry is my career goal and my hope is to get into NYCPM after college. My problem is I am an average student, and I feel like I am behind in what I'm supposed to be doing as far as graduate school goes. Anxiety has racked my brain for the past week. While my overall GPA is a 3.36, I have recieved C's in the 3 science classes I have taken so far. I feel like I'm not going to be good enough to get into my choice school, or any other school for that matter. While there is a pre-health society at my school, they have offered me textbook answers for my concerns, so I would like to hear from you people out there. What was your MCAT score? How did you prepare? What was your college GPA (science/non-science)? What schools did you apply to? Thank you in advance your for help

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[Dr_Feelgood]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am currently a sophomore at St. John's in NYC, majoring in Biology, and minoring in Psychology. Podiatry is my career goal and my hope is to get into NYCPM after college. My problem is I am an average student, and I feel like I am behind in what I'm supposed to be doing as far as graduate school goes. Anxiety has racked my brain for the past week. While my overall GPA is a 3.36, I have recieved C's in the 3 science classes I have taken so far. I feel like I'm not going to be good enough to get into my choice school, or any other school for that matter. While there is a pre-health society at my school, they have offered me textbook answers for my concerns, so I would like to hear from you people out there. What was your MCAT score? How did you prepare? What was your college GPA (science/non-science)? What schools did you apply to? Thank you in advance your for help

First off your overall GPA is fine. Do you have a 3.0 in your science classes? If you've got that then you don't need to worry.

As for the MCATs, I don't think that the "studying" for the MCAT is as important as people make it. What I do think is important is preparing to take an eight hour test. It is like running a marathon. If you "get in shape" you'll be in a much better position.

I applied to all of the schools but I had my favorites. I had heard great things about Scholl, Temple, and DMU. I chose DMU.

Good luck.

 

[krabmas]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am currently a sophomore at St. John's in NYC, majoring in Biology, and minoring in Psychology. Podiatry is my career goal and my hope is to get into NYCPM after college. My problem is I am an average student, and I feel like I am behind in what I'm supposed to be doing as far as graduate school goes. Anxiety has racked my brain for the past week. While my overall GPA is a 3.36, I have recieved C's in the 3 science classes I have taken so far. I feel like I'm not going to be good enough to get into my choice school, or any other school for that matter. While there is a pre-health society at my school, they have offered me textbook answers for my concerns, so I would like to hear from you people out there. What was your MCAT score? How did you prepare? What was your college GPA (science/non-science)? What schools did you apply to? Thank you in advance your for help

I'm guessing you have not taken the MCATs yet?

For which year did you want to start pod school?

Like Dr.Feelgood said the 3.36 is fine as long as the science GPA is about the same.

A few questions you should ask yourself though...
Why did you get the Cs in your science classes and what makes you think that you will be able to do better in pod school? I'm not trying to be a d_ck, just some important info to think about. (did you do better in other science classes after the Cs?)

As for the MCATs I read 3 newspapers a day to prepare for the test as well as a kaplan review course and took the practice tests and did problems.

The newspaper thing was to read articles that I had no interest in and practice the tips Kaplan gives for getting main ideas from each paragraph.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

 

[Dr_Feelgood]

One thing I think you asked and we didn't answer is you want to score on your MCAT. I would suggest a total in the mid 20s. Then you'll get your choice. But the average is about 22 at DMU From what I heard from Meghan the highest we had this year was in the mid 30s. Lowest was I think a 19.

 

[krabmas]

One thing I think you asked and we didn't answer is you want to score on your MCAT. I would suggest a total in the mid 20s. Then you'll get your choice. But the average is about 22 at DMU From what I heard from Meghan the highest we had this year was in the mid 30s. Lowest was I think a 19.

I answered that so there

 

[doctor-wanabe]

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I am currently a sophomore at St. John's in NYC, majoring in Biology, and minoring in Psychology. Podiatry is my career goal and my hope is to get into NYCPM after college. My problem is I am an average student, and I feel like I am behind in what I'm supposed to be doing as far as graduate school goes. Anxiety has racked my brain for the past week. While my overall GPA is a 3.36, I have recieved C's in the 3 science classes I have taken so far. I feel like I'm not going to be good enough to get into my choice school, or any other school for that matter. While there is a pre-health society at my school, they have offered me textbook answers for my concerns, so I would like to hear from you people out there. What was your MCAT score? How did you prepare? What was your college GPA (science/non-science)? What schools did you apply to? Thank you in advance your for help

With a 3.36 GPA I think you have a pretty good shot, so don't stress it too much. Just make sure your MCAT score is around the 20's and you should be set. Good luck!