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Hi everyone, I was wondering about your thoughts on my chances.
I am a non-traditional student that graduated from a top 5 public university with a 3.2 cgpa (with a strong upward trend).
My grades early on were "okay" but then I had one really really bad semester were I earned a 0.xxx gpa because of personal issues during my sophomore year (and it was too late to drop when I realized I needed to drop). Because of this low semester following a complete withdraw from classes the previous semester, I was suspended from school. I took 2 courses at a community college about a year later and was readmitted to my original school the following semester(with explanation of course).
When I reentered school, I took spring, summer, fall, and winter classes for 2 years straight. For those two years of class I had about a 3.7-8cgpa. With the very low gpa I had before, it averaged out to a 3.2.
When I originally started college attempted premed, but I wasn't focused, didn't do well, and one bad situation after another happened. When I went back, I still wanted to try for medicine, but my gpa was so low I thought it would never happen so I didn't finish the pre reqs. After graduating, I began working but still couldn't get medicine out of my head. I did some research and found out about DO school (I had never heard of it) and I began to have hope.
I am currently taking undergraduate classes (full time) at a state university. I take at least 3 science classes with 2 labs every semester. My cgpa is about a 3.7. Because I retook some classes, my cgpa and sgpa according to the DO application is about a 3.6. I did not calculate my overall for MD but I'm guessing 3.3-4 cgpa and 3.0sgpa give or take .1 points for science (all the classes I failed during the bad semester were math).
I currently have 3 classes I need to take in January before taking the mcat. I want to apply 2014. Do I have a chance? What MCAT score do I need? Is taking the MCAT late June/early July too late? I really want to take time to study for 2 solid months. Also, I am an URM (african american female).
Thanks guys!
Hi everyone, I was wondering about your thoughts on my chances.
I am a non-traditional student that graduated from a top 5 public university with a 3.2 cgpa (with a strong upward trend).
My grades early on were "okay" but then I had one really really bad semester were I earned a 0.xxx gpa because of personal issues during my sophomore year (and it was too late to drop when I realized I needed to drop). Because of this low semester following a complete withdraw from classes the previous semester, I was suspended from school. I took 2 courses at a community college about a year later and was readmitted to my original school the following semester(with explanation of course).
When I reentered school, I took spring, summer, fall, and winter classes for 2 years straight. For those two years of class I had about a 3.7-8cgpa. With the very low gpa I had before, it averaged out to a 3.2.
When I originally started college attempted premed, but I wasn't focused, didn't do well, and one bad situation after another happened. When I went back, I still wanted to try for medicine, but my gpa was so low I thought it would never happen so I didn't finish the pre reqs. After graduating, I began working but still couldn't get medicine out of my head. I did some research and found out about DO school (I had never heard of it) and I began to have hope.
I am currently taking undergraduate classes (full time) at a state university. I take at least 3 science classes with 2 labs every semester. My cgpa is about a 3.7. Because I retook some classes, my cgpa and sgpa according to the DO application is about a 3.6. I did not calculate my overall for MD but I'm guessing 3.3-4 cgpa and 3.0sgpa give or take .1 points for science (all the classes I failed during the bad semester were math).
I currently have 3 classes I need to take in January before taking the mcat. I want to apply 2014. Do I have a chance? What MCAT score do I need? Is taking the MCAT late June/early July too late? I really want to take time to study for 2 solid months. Also, I am an URM (african american female).
Thanks guys!
Goro, would your hunch that this reinvention would be good enough for either MD or DO schools also be applicable to a non-URM? I'm in pretty much the exact same situation, but I'm white. Thanks.