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I'm 28, with two semesters left in a mechanical engineering w/pre-med option degree, (fledgeling BME program at my school.) and have yet to take the MCAT. I have previous degree in business from 2007, 2.83 gpa. I'll have 80+ hrs doctor shadowing, 200+ hrs non-clinical volunteering, and plan to start doing some type of clinical volunteering soon. No research.
My current gpa from only the new classes I've taken (around 100 hours):
gpa: 3.78
sgpa: 3.84
Cumulative gpa with every class I've taken:
cgpa:3.14
I go to a large state school, and I've only heard of a few people with a higher gpa in mechanical engineering here, and only one 4.0 - obviously these guys didn't do the pre-med requirements either. I know that "major doesn't matter", but I felt I needed to show aptitude in a scientific field over a long period of time. I feel that I've shown that over what will be 8 semesters and three summer sessions of full loads, while commuting 3.5 hours a day to/from school. Engineering has been extremely rigorous even without the pre-med classes, and I've also taken a few additional upper level biology/zoology classes in addition to the normal pre-reqs.
Yes I need to have an amazing mcat, yes I need to cast a wide net, yes I need to consider DO(no objection whatsoever), yes I need clinical volunteering, yes every single situation is different, etc. etc., but at the end of the day, even with 4 years of strong academic performance and average ECs, is it even going to matter? I'm 10 months from applying, and I just want to be able to feel like I've got more than a 2% shot.
My current gpa from only the new classes I've taken (around 100 hours):
gpa: 3.78
sgpa: 3.84
Cumulative gpa with every class I've taken:
cgpa:3.14
I go to a large state school, and I've only heard of a few people with a higher gpa in mechanical engineering here, and only one 4.0 - obviously these guys didn't do the pre-med requirements either. I know that "major doesn't matter", but I felt I needed to show aptitude in a scientific field over a long period of time. I feel that I've shown that over what will be 8 semesters and three summer sessions of full loads, while commuting 3.5 hours a day to/from school. Engineering has been extremely rigorous even without the pre-med classes, and I've also taken a few additional upper level biology/zoology classes in addition to the normal pre-reqs.
Yes I need to have an amazing mcat, yes I need to cast a wide net, yes I need to consider DO(no objection whatsoever), yes I need clinical volunteering, yes every single situation is different, etc. etc., but at the end of the day, even with 4 years of strong academic performance and average ECs, is it even going to matter? I'm 10 months from applying, and I just want to be able to feel like I've got more than a 2% shot.
