35 and up, 3.5 and under: Interview Club for the Unbalanced (MD)

[tomh98]

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Looking through the "What are my chances?" threads, there are a lot people with unbalanced stats wondering what they can expect.

I'm hoping people can post here if they got an MD school interview this round with an MCAT score of 35 or higher AND a cGPA less than 3.5. (no post-bac or grad work)

Let's give some hope to the unbalanced people of the world!


35Q, 3.4cGPA - Interviewing one school so far! Hoping for more!

 

[jungleland]

Hey! Sweet! This is me.
3.47 cGPA, 36R (12/12/12).
2 invites so far, and the waiting sucks!

 

[MilkmanAl]

It has certainly happened with far worse than a 3.5/35. You guys will both probably be fine if you squared away the rest of your respective apps.

 

[tohsimas135]

3.42 cGPA, 38M
Applied to 35+ schools, and 4 interview invites so far.

 

[Overmjnd]

3.42 cGPA, 38M
Applied to 35+ schools, and 4 interview invites so far.

alright!!! power to the underdog

 

[koennen]

Umm ... is there a reason that none of you guys are mentioning your science GPAs?

 

[coup de chance]

Umm ... is there a reason that none of you guys are mentioning your science GPAs?

Yep, your science GPA is definitely more important than random non-science classes (as long as you don't fail anything).

But if your science isn't too bad (~B), and you have a bomb MCAT (~35 with each section 10+), your numbers will not automatically bar you from US MD at mid-tier places.

 

[rafflecopter]

3.33 cGPA and 36 MCAT; I'm a post-bac with a 3.9 BCPM GPA. 2 Interviews so far. Hoping for a few more :B

 

[tomh98]

Umm ... is there a reason that none of you guys are mentioning your science GPAs?

Fair enough, I was trying to keep things simple.

3.4cGPA/3.3sGPA

I took an advanced series of physics in the engineering dept at my school which really killed my GPA since I'm bio (ouch, bell curve...). But I've been co-author on 1 public health paper and 4 science papers, one in PNAS, so I think that helps balance things, along with the MCAT.

 

[Long Dong]

At first I thought this was for people older then 35.

 

[tomh98]

at first i thought this was for people older then 35.

lol.

apparently you can't edit the thread title. oops.