Can I make it to med school with these stats? Please help!

[questions14]

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Hi there! Sorry in advance for the long post... I am currently in my second year of community college. Most of my credits are career technical since I was going to do early childhood education. Right now, I have a 3.22 GPA (one C, and the rest are A's and B's) so I definitely need to work on that. I've volunteered at 4 or 5 early childhood and nonprofit educational facilities and I've held two temporary jobs (4-9 months) and one long term job. Other than that, I don't have much volunteer or medical experience. And I haven't saved any of my LOR's from before. I've been accepted to a few state universities where I live for fall term. I plan on transferring to a university (most likely studying biology) and getting straight A's from now on, volunteering at hospitals and that kind of thing, doing research during the rest of my undergrad, and then taking 1-2 years off to build my resume before med school. My question is, do you think it would even be possible for me to make it to med school at this point? any constructive opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[lmn]

You are so far down the line that it really isn't possible to make anything of your app so far, you haven't done the classes (so no idea on sgpa, or even overall cgpa from univ), no mcat, and still lots of time to find out what activities you are going to do.

You are only at best going to enter as a junior into college, most likely lower since it seems you haven't done the major classes and possibly even the general education ones. You are going to have years of university to get your grades to where you want them to be, as well as time to volunteer/shadow/research/lead/w.e to get your application rounded out. Do well on the mcat then and you should be able to be a competitive applicant.

 

[cyberchicken001]

Hi there! Sorry in advance for the long post... I am currently in my second year of community college. Most of my credits are career technical since I was going to do early childhood education. Right now, I have a 3.22 GPA (one C, and the rest are A's and B's) so I definitely need to work on that. I've volunteered at 4 or 5 early childhood and nonprofit educational facilities and I've held two temporary jobs (4-9 months) and one long term job. Other than that, I don't have much volunteer or medical experience. And I haven't saved any of my LOR's from before. I've been accepted to a few state universities where I live for fall term. I plan on transferring to a university (most likely studying biology) and getting straight A's from now on, volunteering at hospitals and that kind of thing, doing research during the rest of my undergrad, and then taking 1-2 years off to build my resume before med school. My question is, do you think it would even be possible for me to make it to med school at this point? any constructive opinions or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Yeah it's definitely possible for you to still get into medical school down the road. I would just caution you - as someone who has a 3.22 GPA at a community college - not to think it'll be a piece of cake to get straight A's as a biology major at a 4 year university.....

 

[questions14]

Thanks for the replies! I do really well in science since it is what I enjoy the most and honestly most of my lower grades are just from not working as hard as I should have. I should have mentioned, I've taken 2 bio classes and am currently in a chem class. In the bio, I got an A and a B+. So if I get an A in chem like I plan to I will have a 3.77 sGPA so far.