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[Chromium Surfer]

I would say that your performance on the MCAT and recent upper level science courses will be pretty helpful actually. Also I have heard that med schools really like vets especially. As long as you have all of your extracurriculars in order I would not sell yourself short. Post in the WAMC forum and follow the template they have there to get good feedback. @LizzyM and @Goro can speak more to your chances as well. Best of luck and thanks for your service 🙂

 

[Goro]

Hi,

I'm looking for advice on my situation. Long story short, I'm an active duty Navy SEAL officer who is interested in medical school and transitioning into a medical career. Prior to the military I started two successful businesses (sold one of them).

It's been almost 10 years since I graduated undergrad and lots has changed. I was completely unfocused on school as an undergrad. Instead I spent my time preparing for the military and getting involved extracurricularly (15 student orgs, elected to top student leadership position). I'm worried my GPA will sink me. I have a Master of Divinity (3.87 GPA over 90 hours) from 7 years ago. I've also taken 60 hours of pre-reqs and upper-level science classes over the past two years and have a 4.0 in those courses. MCAT is 515. I'm very confident I could excel academically as I've matured so much the past few years.

I'm going to apply to USUHS given the military background and interests, but am open to recommendations of other schools to target? I've completely written off top programs, and am unsure how competitive I would be at middle of the road programs. Anything else I can do to help overcome GPA?

First off, many thanks for your service!

Divinity degree to SEAL? That's a different path! I'm thinking of a now-banned SDNer who would pester the forum with what ifs about what he called "God tier ECs", and how he'd probably be salivating at this real life story.

Can you give us your year by year GPAs? And what is your current cGPA and sGPA?

The MS degree will not be considered for the GPA.

60 hours of pre-reqs and upper-level science classes over the past two years and have a 4.0 in those courses. is a lot of reinvention.

I recommend the following schools:
Dartmouth
BU
Duke
Pitt
Mayo
Mt Sinai
Keck (maybe)
Temple (maybe)
UCSF
EVMS
Hofstra
Emory
Jefferson
Miami
Drexel
Albany
Tufts
NYMC
TCU/UNT
Your state schools
Rush
Loyola
Rosy Franklin
Tulane
Wake
MCW
SLU
Creighton
Wayne State
Netter
NovaMD
NYU.LI
East TN/Quillan
USUHS

Any DO program. Include UNECOM if you’re from the NE, OSUCOM if you’re from the Plains states and PacNW if you’re from that region. I can't recommend ARCOM, RVU, Nova, BCOM, ICOM and LUCOM, for different reasons. MSUCOM? Read up on Larry Nasser and you decide. LMU has an accreditation warning, which concerns me. CUHS is too new and appears to be too limited in rotations sites. Avoid those new schools that haven't graduated a class yet, if at all possible.