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So I had this conversation with my brother last night and I wanted to see if anyone has had similar experiences.
My brother graduated with a bachelors last year in health science. He was wanting to go into medicine but due to various reasons finished up with a 2.9 GPA. Needless to say he was disheartened and about to give up on med school aspirations. I recently had done a good deal of research here on SDN, and told him all about D.O ( he had never heard of it before) and AACOMAS grade replacement. He was extremely excited and enrolled for an informal post bacc at the Local state Uni near where I live to do some grade replacement before taking the MCAT and improving his app.
One semester later and he is killing it, straight 4.0s and loving life. He goes to talk with his advisor yesterday and gets completely slammed. The advisor tells him that a post bacc is pointless because this "grade replacement" thing isn't how all DO schools run and he will only be averaging his grades by retaking the classes. He told him he should seriously reconsider his plans and plan an alternate route because med school doesn't seem realistic. My brother comes home upset because he trusts his advisor over " some information you got from some random Internet forum". I told him to call a DO school and ask about admission policies and about grade replacement. He goes on to call AZCOM and apparently some guy who picked up had no idea what grade replacement was and explained to him basically how AMCAS averages GPA.
At this point I'm completely lost. Has anyone run into similar problems and why the F*** is some admission person at AZCOM saying they done honour grade replacement?
My brother graduated with a bachelors last year in health science. He was wanting to go into medicine but due to various reasons finished up with a 2.9 GPA. Needless to say he was disheartened and about to give up on med school aspirations. I recently had done a good deal of research here on SDN, and told him all about D.O ( he had never heard of it before) and AACOMAS grade replacement. He was extremely excited and enrolled for an informal post bacc at the Local state Uni near where I live to do some grade replacement before taking the MCAT and improving his app.
One semester later and he is killing it, straight 4.0s and loving life. He goes to talk with his advisor yesterday and gets completely slammed. The advisor tells him that a post bacc is pointless because this "grade replacement" thing isn't how all DO schools run and he will only be averaging his grades by retaking the classes. He told him he should seriously reconsider his plans and plan an alternate route because med school doesn't seem realistic. My brother comes home upset because he trusts his advisor over " some information you got from some random Internet forum". I told him to call a DO school and ask about admission policies and about grade replacement. He goes on to call AZCOM and apparently some guy who picked up had no idea what grade replacement was and explained to him basically how AMCAS averages GPA.
At this point I'm completely lost. Has anyone run into similar problems and why the F*** is some admission person at AZCOM saying they done honour grade replacement?