33q 3.84 gpa

[dkangoroo]

Hey Everyone,

I recently received my MCAT scores back. It was a 33Q (Verbal 10, Physical Sciences 11, Biological Sciences 12) My GPA from UCSD is 3.84, however I am a transfer student and my GPA from my community college is a 3.3. My brother got sick the first quarter I transferred to UCSD. I took an academic leave to be with him through that time. I was not able to do any extracurricular activities while he was sick. After he passed away, I returned to school, but I was so busy playing catch-up with school that I was not really able to do any ECs. I was able to squeeze in one summer (9 hours a week) of volunteering at a community clinic, a spring and summer at a clinical research office (12 hours a week), volunteering at ronald mcdonald house cooking dinner once, and shadowing a surgeon once.

So this is my situation right now, 33Q, 3.8 GPA from UCSD and 3.3 GPA from Community College, but a limited amount of EC. UCSD school of medicine is my first choice, but really, i would be happy getting into any medical school. Can you guys help guide me in what schools I should be looking at and what are my chances?

Thanks!

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[gyngyn]

There are three kinds of California applicants: the 800+/5000+ who get into CA schools, the 1500+/5000+ who get in OOS and the rest who don't get in. You look like one of the 1500+ with the info provided here. Do some research and apply to at least 15 OOS schools that might interview you and you should be good.

 

[dkangoroo]

Thank you for your reply. What am I looking for when I research OOS schools?

 

[gyngyn]

Go to the MSAR and look for schools with matriculant stats like yours that take a sig number of OOS applicants. You can also look for threads in which these schools are enumerated.