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The_RZ_Method said:
Thanks for your help! If we're counting dual enrollment in those 90 credits, my senior year is 66 credits (lol) at 3.3 GPA. I hope Adcoms can see it semester by semester though, because looking at it this way doesn't showcase the upward trend in the last 18 credits I took before graduating 🙁

I'm glad I can still show 21 credits post-bac at a 4.0, but an upward trend over 39 credits would have looked much better...
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Your performance is separated by year. Postbacc is separate, so that will help. The 514 will also help. I'm assuming that was recent. The adcoms can obviously say what they think, but my academic record was much worse than yours, and I got accepted. I had killer ECs though. Make sure the rest of your app is amazing.
 
The_RZ_Method said:
I understand. Do you think I can overcome this as I don't really have a U trend, but rather weak GPA my first few years and an even lower senior year. I then got my act together and have gotten a 3.8 GPA over the past couple years. I also scored 514 on the MCAT.
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Sometimes you have to apply with the app you have, warts and all, and see how the app cycle shakes out.

But always have a Plan B.
 
The_RZ_Method said:
Thanks for the encouragement! I took the MCAT last January, so definitely in the upward trend phase, and I have some great ECs too. Do you mind sharing what your stats were and where/how you found success?
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I had a 3.43 cGPA with a 4.00 postbacc and a 519 MCAT. I also had 24+ Ws and 3 Fs on my transcripts. But I also had 10,000 hours of paid clinical experience, 6 years of military experience, 400 hours of non-clinical volunteering, and a bunch of other stuff. So I think the MCAT, postbacc, and ECs made up for the other stuff.

You are just going to have to apply broadly and smartly. Don’t bother applying to T20 schools. You’ll be wasting your money most likely. Even with all that stuff, the top schools I applied to rejected me straight up. Apply to all your state schools and schools that don’t take super low numbers of OOS, and make sure your stats are higher than their 10%ile. Also apply DO. If you get into an MD school, great. But if not, you will have a good chance at DO and will at least get to be a doctor (unless you’re willing to be a reapplicant and wait a year to apply DO only if you don’t get into MD—personally, that sounds like a waste of time to me, but I’m old).

This is just my experience. I’m not an adcom, but I just went through the process. *shrug* YMMV

Edit: forgot this part. I got accepted to schools where I fit their mission and who looked favorably on applicants with my background. Schools like that are your best bet.
 
I'm not an ADCOM but I agree with @Matthew9Thirtyfive and had similar stats/academic history as him. That senior year will hurt, but your post-bacc work is strong and your MCAT will go a long way toward showing that you are capable of succeeding. Apply smartly. Provided all of the other boxes are checked, I'm confident that you will get some love from several DO schools and you have a shot at MD.
 
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