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Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to read my thread! All thoughts and comments are greatly appreciated.
The bottom line to my academic history is as follows:
-horrible 1st 3 years of college, partly due to a one time illness and partly due to my lack of maturity on how to handle my academics while ill.
- My last 80 credit hours are good:
overall roughly: 3.6
non-science: 8.85
science roughly 3.2
-I'm taking the mcat mid August: I'm expecting around a 27...I'm hoping I can fine tune my skills and score a 30, though unlikely, I will still attempt to make this a reality
Now with all that being said: on my aacomas application, retaking all the classes I did poorly on in my beginning of my academic career I have a 3.3 cummalative, 3.5 non science and a 2.89 science (low, I know)
Question:
Although I am aware that my stats are not competitive, nor am I a top candidate, will my upward trend help my application process?
A majority of the schools have minimum requirements of a science gpa of a 3.0, has anyone received a secondary with a lower science GPA?
I am retaking two more classes I did poorly on in the fall, assuming I get an A (which I probably will because its Gen Chem 1 and Physics 1), my science GPA will jump to a 3.3. For this, I was hoping that even though I won't be able to send updates until mid decemeber, has anyone had any success with sending an update that makes them significantly more competitive? Also, would I be better off by just applying in December? I'm already assuming no due to that admissions come on a rolling basis, but thoughts are well appreciated.
Sorry for the long thread, but I do not post on here often and wanted to get all my questions down on one thread!!!
Thank you!
The bottom line to my academic history is as follows:
-horrible 1st 3 years of college, partly due to a one time illness and partly due to my lack of maturity on how to handle my academics while ill.
- My last 80 credit hours are good:
overall roughly: 3.6
non-science: 8.85
science roughly 3.2
-I'm taking the mcat mid August: I'm expecting around a 27...I'm hoping I can fine tune my skills and score a 30, though unlikely, I will still attempt to make this a reality
Now with all that being said: on my aacomas application, retaking all the classes I did poorly on in my beginning of my academic career I have a 3.3 cummalative, 3.5 non science and a 2.89 science (low, I know)
Question:
Although I am aware that my stats are not competitive, nor am I a top candidate, will my upward trend help my application process?
A majority of the schools have minimum requirements of a science gpa of a 3.0, has anyone received a secondary with a lower science GPA?
I am retaking two more classes I did poorly on in the fall, assuming I get an A (which I probably will because its Gen Chem 1 and Physics 1), my science GPA will jump to a 3.3. For this, I was hoping that even though I won't be able to send updates until mid decemeber, has anyone had any success with sending an update that makes them significantly more competitive? Also, would I be better off by just applying in December? I'm already assuming no due to that admissions come on a rolling basis, but thoughts are well appreciated.
Sorry for the long thread, but I do not post on here often and wanted to get all my questions down on one thread!!!
Thank you!
