Chef to Doctor. I need advice.

[pbairdakts]

Hello all, I am 32. A dad and returning to school. My overall GPA is about 2.51, including classes I quit in 2013. I returned, to premed a year and a half ago, my GPA since has been 3.87, BCPM 3.85 with about 55 credit hours (all on the backdrop of winning a chef award, working 70+ hours a week, 2 small children, wife and maintaining fitness). I expect my MCAT to be 518-522. I have a strong personal statement, about 90 hours of volunteering at an underserved free health clinic and about 30 hours shadowing a few prominent physicians. I have worked as a chef in the Michelin scene since failing out the first time. Please help me seek sanity or a path. Aside from my grades from 2009-2014, I have a pretty awesome application.

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[premed19876787]

Does the 2.51 include the post bacc (3.87 GPA) ? Overall sounds like a really interested story/background. With that post bacc gpa and any mcat near there you’ll be a shoe in for DO schools and probably even a md. There are a number of MD schools that only look at your last 30 credits I believe

 

[pbairdakts]

Does the 2.51 include the post bacc (3.87 GPA) ? Overall sounds like a really interested story/background. With that post bacc gpa and any mcat near there you’ll be a shoe in for DO schools and probably even a md. There are a number of MD schools that only look at your last 30 credits I believe

Hey! I did no do a post-bacc, I failed out at like 20 years old with no degree. Im doing my BS in microbio now. Do you happen to know any of these schools?

 

[Nontrad_FL_LGBT]

UVM is very friendly to unconventional backgrounds. A lot of schools have some kind of healthy living cooking extracurricular program, might be worth researching to find a good fit.

 

[Dral]

Your final GPA (or even a projected GPA) that combines all your UG coursework will be helpful. If you hit above a 3.5 and do well on the MCAT, you'll be in good striking range of MD in general.

 

[pbairdakts]

UVM is very friendly to unconventional backgrounds. A lot of schools have some kind of healthy living cooking extracurricular program, might be worth researching to find a good fit.

Wow I appreciate this I am building a lengthy school list.

 

[pbairdakts]

Your final GPA (or even a projected GPA) that combines all your UG coursework will be helpful. If you hit above a 3.5 and do well on the MCAT, you'll be in good striking range of MD in general.

My GPA will most likely never go past 3.0. I failed about 9 classes and a litany of Ds and Cs in my initial foray into academia. Luckily it was liberal arts and not science based. I am stressing. This was 13 years ago and I’m a totally different person. Even credit debt is forgiven after 7 years….

 

[premed19876787]

Hey! I did no do a post-bacc, I failed out at like 20 years old with no degree. Im doing my BS in microbio now. Do you happen to know any of these schools?

I believe Boston is one of them. Google “ the last 30 credits rule” for med schools or something like that. You’ll see what I’m referring to

 

[pbairdakts]

I believe Boston is one of them. Google “ the last 30 credits rule” for med schools or something like that. You’ll see what I’m referring to

Hey yes, I did. My school list is rapidly approaching 40! My target school is UF and I’m hoping they say yes!

 

[candbgirl]

You don’t have a “pretty awesome application” but you do have a pretty interesting application.
Have you considered asking your former school if you can retroactively withdraw from your F and D courses? If you could swing that, you’d be in good shape.
You really haven’t shown us why you want to be a doctor. Your ECs are very limited and you need to build those up. Currently you might be auto screened from consideration. Oh, and Find a primary care doc to shadow for a few days.
When are you planning to take the MCAT? Have you taken an FLs yet? How did you score?
Seriously reconsider going to the Caribbean. Spend some time reading threads dealing with the pitfalls of Caribbean med schools for the long term. DO is meda times better than Caribbean.
Good luck as you move forward.

 

[pbairdakts]

You don’t have a “pretty awesome application” but you do have a pretty interesting application.
Have you considered asking your former school if you can retroactively withdraw from your F and D courses? If you could swing that, you’d be in good shape.
You really haven’t shown us why you want to be a doctor. Your ECs are very limited and you need to build those up. Currently you might be auto screened from consideration. Oh, and Find a primary care doc to shadow for a few days.
When are you planning to take the MCAT? Have you taken an FLs yet? How did you score?
Seriously reconsider going to the Caribbean. Spend some time reading threads dealing with the pitfalls of Caribbean med schools for the long term. DO is meda times better than Caribbean.
Good luck as you move forward.

Hey thank you! It’s all in my personal statement as to why and my actual path to medicine. I have researched the Caribbean schools heavily. To me, it sounds like strong students can get matched. I didn’t get to where I am in life by being meek or lazy. MCAT in April or May. I went all the way to ex Secretary of education Dr. King for my retro withdrawals (it’s a no-go). I own them. There’s also a lot of things that I’ve done community service-wise I haven’t written about in here. I’m also a non traditional student, I haven’t taken the traditional path.