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First of all I am fully aware that tons of you will post something like, "Chief you don't have a chance at MD, apply to DO etc...."
Now with that being said I applied to MD schools in July and have already received 4 Interview invites from 4 MD schools. I am reluctant to right out disclose the name of the schools for my own personal reasons and mostly to stay anonymous.
After verification I am a 3.19ish cGPA and 3.05 sGPA. Regardless I am a little worried because my MCAT is definitely not the best score out there it's average if even that. On the AAMC my VR average was an 8-9 and on the real deal I scored a 7, my PS average was 10-11 and I scored a 12, my BS average was 12 and I scored a 10. So my AAMC practice exam average was a 30-31 and I scored a 29 N (7 VR, 12 PS, 10 BS). Therefore due to such close proximity I chose to stick with it.
My GPA according to AMCAS goes as following
Year BCPM AO Total
Freshman 1.50 (10 credits) 2.80 (15 credits) 2.28 (*25 credits*)
Sophomore 1.93 (14 credits) 3.38 (16 credits) 2.70 (*30 credits*)
Junior 3.15 (25 credits) 3.00 (3 credits) 3.14 (*28 credits*)
Senior 3.60 (52 credits!) 3,77 (9 credits) 3.62 (**61 credits**)
So as you can see I had a rough start in the beginning. It was mostly because I was active duty in the Infantry of the Marine Corp working (6 AM- 6 PM) shifts every weekday. I would take classes in the evenings and literally had no time to do homework but tried to stay devoted to school as much as I could (clearly did a ****ty job). According to the community college I had a 3.2 but it's showing up so low according to AMCAS because I failed Calc 1&2 simply because I was unable to do homework most of the time. Retook the classes and got A's in some of them. When I got into a 4 year school I really got my stuff together, I was out of the military and I was getting straight A's in most of my core, upper division and pre-reqs
A's in (Infectious Disease, Organic chem 1&2, Human Physiology, Physics 1 &2, Biochemistry, General Genetics, Ecology etc....). My last 30 credits have pretty much been a 3.9 GPA.
I have 2000 hours worth of volunteering and shadowing (probably half each as in 1000 hours of volunteering in different disadvantaged community events and the clinic and 1000 hours of shadowing 2 primary care physicians). I've been in the clinic working with patients, I have a pretty descent personal statement and LORs (according to some people they started crying after reading my personal statement and some of my professors volunteered to write the letters and some blatantly told me to my face that I am probably one of the most hard working students they have ever met- now I must say that was an exaggeration but I thank them for their kind words). I've applied very broadly close to 35 medical schools and completed about 30 secondaries by the end of July!
The SMP program that I signed up for was the Advanced Biomedical sciences certificate program which is a joint program between Georgetown medical school and George Mason University. It's the 21 credit SMP program and supposedly I take 1 last semester at Georgetown to get a Masters. This is my first semester and it just started 1 week ago and I have NO grades for it so far. The material is no doubt tough because it's pretty much the same exact stuff as first year Georgetown med students. I chose this program to A) Prove to others that I do have the discipline to work hard B) To do something fun like studying during this one year break (yes studying to me is a lot of fun!) C) God forbid I don't get in this year yeah hopefully this program will enhance my stats for next year.
So far here is my update on the 30ish secondaries I submitted:- I have 5 rejections, 4 interview from MD schools, 2 possible interviews but no guarantees on those yet. So I have two questions
1) What are my chances from these 4 interviews ?
2) The questions is that is it risky to continue taking the post-bacc program should I drop it? or should I continue with the post-bacc program?
and if I do continue with the post-bacc program when exactly do I tell or update the schools about this? I enrolled into the post bacc after submitting 90 % of my secondaries.
Now with that being said I applied to MD schools in July and have already received 4 Interview invites from 4 MD schools. I am reluctant to right out disclose the name of the schools for my own personal reasons and mostly to stay anonymous.
After verification I am a 3.19ish cGPA and 3.05 sGPA. Regardless I am a little worried because my MCAT is definitely not the best score out there it's average if even that. On the AAMC my VR average was an 8-9 and on the real deal I scored a 7, my PS average was 10-11 and I scored a 12, my BS average was 12 and I scored a 10. So my AAMC practice exam average was a 30-31 and I scored a 29 N (7 VR, 12 PS, 10 BS). Therefore due to such close proximity I chose to stick with it.
My GPA according to AMCAS goes as following
Year BCPM AO Total
Freshman 1.50 (10 credits) 2.80 (15 credits) 2.28 (*25 credits*)
Sophomore 1.93 (14 credits) 3.38 (16 credits) 2.70 (*30 credits*)
Junior 3.15 (25 credits) 3.00 (3 credits) 3.14 (*28 credits*)
Senior 3.60 (52 credits!) 3,77 (9 credits) 3.62 (**61 credits**)
So as you can see I had a rough start in the beginning. It was mostly because I was active duty in the Infantry of the Marine Corp working (6 AM- 6 PM) shifts every weekday. I would take classes in the evenings and literally had no time to do homework but tried to stay devoted to school as much as I could (clearly did a ****ty job). According to the community college I had a 3.2 but it's showing up so low according to AMCAS because I failed Calc 1&2 simply because I was unable to do homework most of the time. Retook the classes and got A's in some of them. When I got into a 4 year school I really got my stuff together, I was out of the military and I was getting straight A's in most of my core, upper division and pre-reqs
A's in (Infectious Disease, Organic chem 1&2, Human Physiology, Physics 1 &2, Biochemistry, General Genetics, Ecology etc....). My last 30 credits have pretty much been a 3.9 GPA.
I have 2000 hours worth of volunteering and shadowing (probably half each as in 1000 hours of volunteering in different disadvantaged community events and the clinic and 1000 hours of shadowing 2 primary care physicians). I've been in the clinic working with patients, I have a pretty descent personal statement and LORs (according to some people they started crying after reading my personal statement and some of my professors volunteered to write the letters and some blatantly told me to my face that I am probably one of the most hard working students they have ever met- now I must say that was an exaggeration but I thank them for their kind words). I've applied very broadly close to 35 medical schools and completed about 30 secondaries by the end of July!
The SMP program that I signed up for was the Advanced Biomedical sciences certificate program which is a joint program between Georgetown medical school and George Mason University. It's the 21 credit SMP program and supposedly I take 1 last semester at Georgetown to get a Masters. This is my first semester and it just started 1 week ago and I have NO grades for it so far. The material is no doubt tough because it's pretty much the same exact stuff as first year Georgetown med students. I chose this program to A) Prove to others that I do have the discipline to work hard B) To do something fun like studying during this one year break (yes studying to me is a lot of fun!) C) God forbid I don't get in this year yeah hopefully this program will enhance my stats for next year.
So far here is my update on the 30ish secondaries I submitted:- I have 5 rejections, 4 interview from MD schools, 2 possible interviews but no guarantees on those yet. So I have two questions
1) What are my chances from these 4 interviews ?
2) The questions is that is it risky to continue taking the post-bacc program should I drop it? or should I continue with the post-bacc program?
and if I do continue with the post-bacc program when exactly do I tell or update the schools about this? I enrolled into the post bacc after submitting 90 % of my secondaries.
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