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Currently, I'm an echocardiography student at Orange Coast College, and I plan to pay my way through a biological sciences degree from CSULB/UCI by working as an echocardiographer at LB Memorial Heart and Vascular Institute. I'm trying to get my GPA to at least 3.5 after having a 2.81 freshman year (one A, three Bs, and two Cs). My grades suck, and I know it.
I've got five/six more years to do it in (three/four if you discount the the two years of ECHO training). All I have done are my general education reqs (41 units), not my major or pre-medical requirements. I'm 17 years old.
My ECs currently include being mentored by a local invasive cardiologist at Healthcare Partners. Not much else though. I'll find something while earning my BS. Any ideas?
Has anyone here gone to Meharry Medical College, Rosalind Franklin, Morehouse, or New York Medical College? I hope to go to Harbor-UCLA, NYU Medical Center, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, Mayo Clinic, or Cleveland Clinic for my IM residency. Please tell me that IM residencies care only about your USMLEs and clinical grades, and not the name of your med school.
If I do get my GPA up to at least 3.5, what MCAT would I need to be competitive? Why don't medical schools care about the grades you get in a Master's degree, only about undergrad grades? Shouldn't excellent performance in grad courses prove that you're capable of handling med school?
I hope to become an interventional cardiologist, clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, or intensivist.
I've got five/six more years to do it in (three/four if you discount the the two years of ECHO training). All I have done are my general education reqs (41 units), not my major or pre-medical requirements. I'm 17 years old.
My ECs currently include being mentored by a local invasive cardiologist at Healthcare Partners. Not much else though. I'll find something while earning my BS. Any ideas?
Has anyone here gone to Meharry Medical College, Rosalind Franklin, Morehouse, or New York Medical College? I hope to go to Harbor-UCLA, NYU Medical Center, NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, Mayo Clinic, or Cleveland Clinic for my IM residency. Please tell me that IM residencies care only about your USMLEs and clinical grades, and not the name of your med school.
If I do get my GPA up to at least 3.5, what MCAT would I need to be competitive? Why don't medical schools care about the grades you get in a Master's degree, only about undergrad grades? Shouldn't excellent performance in grad courses prove that you're capable of handling med school?
I hope to become an interventional cardiologist, clinical cardiac electrophysiologist, or intensivist.
