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Hi everyone! I've been a long-time lurker, finally decided to register and post.
I just calculated my cGPA and sGPA after transferring through 2 schools. I'm a senior (5th year) at my 3rd school. I really screwed up my whole first year of college, I got mostly C's, D's, and F's. But after that first year I kind of got my act together and since then, for the past three years I've been consistently getting all A's and B's, mostly B's though, haven't had any semester with a GPA below 3.0, but not above 3.3 either.
cGPA for all four years I've attended undergrad: 2.90
sGPA for all four years I've attended undergrad: 3.15
cGPA since I got my act together (sans first year): 3.20
sGPA: same (3.15)
MCAT: 27Q
Physical Sciences: 10
Verbal Reasoning: 8
Biological Sciences: 9
I didn't really study for the MCAT (6 weeks before I started taking practice tests and going over what I was getting wrong) I spent most of the summer panicking about it and couldn't study. I've started studying for it and will take it in January again and will probably get above 30 since I will have actually studied.
I have the "upward trend" schools look for but am worried it's not high enough. I've worked at a hospital, managing the volunteer department on the weekends and getting a lot of hands on experience there for the last 3 years, I've shadowed a doctor (my cousin) for the past 4 years, and I have some extracurriculars but not a lot.
Also, I've talked to a few people in medical school and looked at their first year curriculum and by the time I graduate I will have taken almost all of the classes a first year med student takes, and according my university those classes are taught at a professional school level, and so far I've gotten A's and B's in all of them. Will that make me a stronger applicant than someone who took the bare minimum and got better grades? I feel like I'd be better prepared to take on medical school than someone who took easy classes and got A's. Will med schools even care?
These are the schools I'm considering:
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Loyola
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
University of Illinois
Souther Illinois University
Medical College of Wisconsin
I haven't sent applications in yet, I was waiting on my MCAT score and got it 2 days ago.
What are my chances at those schools this cycle?
Should I not apply this year, retake the MCAT, boost my GPA this year, and apply next summer?
Should I look into grad school/post-bacc?
I just calculated my cGPA and sGPA after transferring through 2 schools. I'm a senior (5th year) at my 3rd school. I really screwed up my whole first year of college, I got mostly C's, D's, and F's. But after that first year I kind of got my act together and since then, for the past three years I've been consistently getting all A's and B's, mostly B's though, haven't had any semester with a GPA below 3.0, but not above 3.3 either.
cGPA for all four years I've attended undergrad: 2.90
sGPA for all four years I've attended undergrad: 3.15
cGPA since I got my act together (sans first year): 3.20
sGPA: same (3.15)
MCAT: 27Q
Physical Sciences: 10
Verbal Reasoning: 8
Biological Sciences: 9
I didn't really study for the MCAT (6 weeks before I started taking practice tests and going over what I was getting wrong) I spent most of the summer panicking about it and couldn't study. I've started studying for it and will take it in January again and will probably get above 30 since I will have actually studied.
I have the "upward trend" schools look for but am worried it's not high enough. I've worked at a hospital, managing the volunteer department on the weekends and getting a lot of hands on experience there for the last 3 years, I've shadowed a doctor (my cousin) for the past 4 years, and I have some extracurriculars but not a lot.
Also, I've talked to a few people in medical school and looked at their first year curriculum and by the time I graduate I will have taken almost all of the classes a first year med student takes, and according my university those classes are taught at a professional school level, and so far I've gotten A's and B's in all of them. Will that make me a stronger applicant than someone who took the bare minimum and got better grades? I feel like I'd be better prepared to take on medical school than someone who took easy classes and got A's. Will med schools even care?
These are the schools I'm considering:
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Loyola
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
University of Illinois
Souther Illinois University
Medical College of Wisconsin
I haven't sent applications in yet, I was waiting on my MCAT score and got it 2 days ago.
What are my chances at those schools this cycle?
Should I not apply this year, retake the MCAT, boost my GPA this year, and apply next summer?
Should I look into grad school/post-bacc?