Inanimatecarbonrod
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Hi everyone,
I finished up my post-bacc this past December. I completed it at my a state university, which is top-100 and a science-focused school (it also has a med school). In theory, my post-bacc GPA and MCAT score are good enough to link into the med school, but I'm obviously not going to put all of my eggs in one basket. I find the information out there about what type of schools post-baccs who have quite disparate undergrad GPAs and post-bacc GPAs rather difficult to understand and was hoping for some guidance regarding what types of places I should apply with my stats.
Stats:
Post-Bacc GPA: 3.76
Cumulative Undergrad + Post Bacc GPA: 3.37
BCPM GPA: 3.70
MCAT: 515
Background:
I was an entertainment lawyer in Manhattan and worked for a boutique law firm that represented a lot of famous musicians. In a period of about a year and a half, my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer, my aunt died of lung cancer, my cousin died of sickle cell disease, my best friend died of signet ring cell colorectal cancer, and another aunt died of colorectal cancer. Seeing all of this illness and being in hospitals so often made me realize that I was not having a positive impact on the world and that the place I was supposed to be was a hospital. I was a political science and history major in undergrad because I thought that I wanted to follow the family legal tradition and basically coasted along with a 3.18 GPA and only 3 science credits. After all that happened, I quit my job, got into a post-bacc program and here we are today.
Extracurricular activities:
Chief Scribe at a scribe company, 1000+ volunteer hours, some non-medical research (trying to remedy this).
Thanks so much in advance for the advice. My school's advising program is pretty lackluster and hasn't given me much guidance on what types of medical schools I should be applying to!
I finished up my post-bacc this past December. I completed it at my a state university, which is top-100 and a science-focused school (it also has a med school). In theory, my post-bacc GPA and MCAT score are good enough to link into the med school, but I'm obviously not going to put all of my eggs in one basket. I find the information out there about what type of schools post-baccs who have quite disparate undergrad GPAs and post-bacc GPAs rather difficult to understand and was hoping for some guidance regarding what types of places I should apply with my stats.
Stats:
Post-Bacc GPA: 3.76
Cumulative Undergrad + Post Bacc GPA: 3.37
BCPM GPA: 3.70
MCAT: 515
Background:
I was an entertainment lawyer in Manhattan and worked for a boutique law firm that represented a lot of famous musicians. In a period of about a year and a half, my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer, my aunt died of lung cancer, my cousin died of sickle cell disease, my best friend died of signet ring cell colorectal cancer, and another aunt died of colorectal cancer. Seeing all of this illness and being in hospitals so often made me realize that I was not having a positive impact on the world and that the place I was supposed to be was a hospital. I was a political science and history major in undergrad because I thought that I wanted to follow the family legal tradition and basically coasted along with a 3.18 GPA and only 3 science credits. After all that happened, I quit my job, got into a post-bacc program and here we are today.
Extracurricular activities:
Chief Scribe at a scribe company, 1000+ volunteer hours, some non-medical research (trying to remedy this).
Thanks so much in advance for the advice. My school's advising program is pretty lackluster and hasn't given me much guidance on what types of medical schools I should be applying to!
