3.3 GPA/ 35 MCAT Help!

[DcD88]

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Hey everyone, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 3.3 cGPA and 3.4 sGPA and got a 35 P on my MCAT.
I have a half year of clinical experience and a year and half of research experience. and i have been heavily involved in a club that serves the homeless. also i have had very heavy experience in management (and i plan to do an MBA with the MD if possible)

do you guys think i have a chance? and if so how would i go about MD/MBA (if thats a chance) and finally my mother has made an average of 20-22k a year for the last 15 years, i was wondering if i should apply disadvantaged status or not?

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

 

[Stratego]

With a 35 MCAT to compensate for the low cGPA, you might be fine at lower-selectivity schools but I'd have a concern about the fact that you only have 6 months of clinical experience when the average applicant has one and a half years. Your research, leadership, and community service look fine. Also, you'll want to get in some physician shadowing. Is there an option of taking another year to raise your cGPA and BCPM GPA by taking more math and upper-level science classes, and beefing up the extracurriculars before you apply?

There are other SDN Forums that can answer your last two questions.

 

[dogenthusiaist]

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[OpalOnyx]

Hey everyone, any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 3.3 cGPA and 3.4 sGPA and got a 35 P on my MCAT.
I have a half year of clinical experience and a year and half of research experience. and i have been heavily involved in a club that serves the homeless. also i have had very heavy experience in management (and i plan to do an MBA with the MD if possible)

do you guys think i have a chance? and if so how would i go about MD/MBA (if thats a chance) and finally my mother has made an average of 20-22k a year for the last 15 years, i was wondering if i should apply disadvantaged status or not?

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I would've loved to get your MCAT score. Just keep up with extracurriculars/clinical experience. Maybe take some graduate classes to bring up the GPA. A 35 MCAT is a great starting point - just build up the rest of your app.

 

[nyc5614]

What's your major? Do you go to a selective school? It's ridiculous the weight that is put on GPA's considering that there could be two students competing for spots: one that was an electrical engineer from MIT and the other that has a degree in underwater basketweaving from Easy U. They need to further refine the process of evaluating GPA (although understandably, that is probably the point of the MCAT).

I'm going off on a tangent, but methinks that US News & World Report may be dictating too much of the process; whereas MCAT has a direct correlation to ability to pass boards, GPA does not, nor does it differentiate relative work ethic or abilities of any two candidates, given the above case. I knew plenty of brilliant kids who were engineering majors at various schools who worked their tails off, but the physical sciences profs simply don't hand out A's like candy, as the humanities profs tend to do. This is the reason that I never evaluated an interviewee (in investment banking analyst programs) on their GPA, or at least, if they had a major in the sciences, I added an additional 0.3 to their GPA, in my mind (I did the same for any kid who was a college athlete or worked during the school year >19 hours per week, as it was a much better indicator of work ethic).

In any case, I wouldn't rule out mid-tier either. I don't see that it's at all impossible with your MCAT score, and 3.3 isn't exactly failing, either.

 

[nyc5614]

P.S. MBA's get you nothing if they're not from a top-notch school and if you haven't spent a few years in the workforce. Forget about an MBA for now and do an executive program if you want to do so later. One of the primary reasons for getting an MBA is to do a career switch, which is another reason to save this for down the road (say, if you want a career in healthcare venture capital, where hiring MD's is common).

 

[MilkmanAl]

I would've loved to get your MCAT score. Just keep up with extracurriculars/clinical experience. Maybe take some graduate classes to bring up the GPA. A 35 MCAT is a great starting point - just build up the rest of your app.

Graduate classes don't figure into your undergrad GPA. The OP would have to take more undergrad classes to change anything.

I think a 3.3/35 should be good enough to get you in somewhere if you really nail down the rest of your app. Unfortunately, 6 months of clinical experience is not so good. Beef that up, and with wise, broad application, you should probably be okay.

 

[DcD88]

alright, thanks alot for the advice guys!

 

[DcD88]

bump??