2.5GPA/28OMCAT... Should i even bother?

[jimbo1101]

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[DrBowtie]

Not this time around. You are late in the game and have below average stats.

 

[Flopotomist]

Depends on your financial situation. You have a very very low chance this year with those numbers (even as an URM, the GPA is low). If money is no object, apply to your state school as a long shot but prepare for that postbacc. Why is the GPA so low? Have you read the MSAR yet?

 

[Rendar5]

w/ that GPA, not sure u'd be able to get into a school at all, allo or osteo. carribean sure. do post-bacc, and then see about ur chances based on how u do.

 

[Law2Doc]

should i try to get into med school and apply? of course i will do post-bac or carribean or do if i get rejected... but should i even bother trying for an MD....

Just curious - Why did you take the MCAT at this juncture? While you can certainly rehabilitate your grades to get into med school, it will likely take several years of A's in an unofficial postbac to get your GPA up to a competitive level, and by then the MCAT score will have expired. You can certainly do carribean, though.

 

[OSUdoc08]

should i try to get into med school and apply? of course i will do post-bac or carribean or do if i get rejected... but should i even bother trying for an MD....

No.

You need a 2.75 or 3.0 to apply.

Your MCAT is too low for any acceptance.

 

[sunnyjohn]

No.

Save the cash to buy lattes while studying during your post-bacc!

😛

 

[gujuDoc]

Do a postbac program or SMP program, depending on what med school admissions directors advise. Talk to admissions directors of schools you are thinking about applying too.

 

[Uncle_Tbag]

Post-bac, maters, phd, lots o' research, anything, just don't go carrib (IMHO). Far better to delay it for 2-5 years than be called el doctoro for the rest of your life.

 

[BerkeleyMD]

Honestly, if you don't plan on living in a big city- then do the carribean. Freggin, all the doc's I know in my town are IMG's except for one doc from Cornell.

Once you get a residency, no one cares where you came from.

 

[Uncle_Tbag]

Honestly, if you don't plan on living in a big city- then do the carribean. Freggin, all the doc's I know in my town are IMG's except for one doc from Cornell.

Once you get a residency, no one cares where you came from.

Getting a good residency is the problem.

If one has already decided to do IM (and is 100% sure about that, but who is really?) I guess it's not such a big issue.