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[chicandtoughness]

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[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ? Your current cGPA and sGPA are competitive for DO schools as long as your MCAT is 500 or higher. Another year of a DIY postbacc is fine and do well on the MCAT.

 

[Faha]

If you increase your cGPA to over 3.4 and have a MCAT of 510 then your chances for MD acceptance are ~50%.

 

[MyOdyssey]

Hi friends! This question mainly focuses on GPA.

• Undergrad:
  • cGPA: 2.9
  • sGPA: 2.0 (I only took a few classes because I was an econ major)
• Postbac only GPA: 4.0
• Cumulative undergrad + postbac:
  • cGPA: 3.34
  • sGPA (AMCAS): 3.60
  • sGPA (AACOMAS): 3.77
• Also have an unrelated masters degree with 4.0 GPA

I've done 1.5 years of postbac already and managed to power through all of my prereqs, so I have no other prereqs to take.

My question is this: should I take another year of upper division classes in my DIY postbac, or should I apply for an SMP?

I do not feel like my application is competitive right now. My undergrad GPA is very hard to overcome (I've received this feedback from pre-health advisors and med students), mainly because I went to a top school for my undergrad and did my postbac at a lower-end state school (it's what I could afford), so the impression is, "Oh, you only did well in your postbac because you went to an easy school." I was rejected from a formal postbac program (Harvard Extension) for this stated reason.

I have not taken the MCAT yet. If I go the postbac route, I'd take a year of upper division bio while studying for the MCAT. If I did SMP, I'd apply using my current GRE scores (98 %ile, which is extremely hard to get), which the programs I'm looking at will accept en lieu of MCAT, and then I would study for the MCAT using the prep programs provided in the SMP.

Thoughts? I'm tearing my hair out over here.

Do your ECs include clinical experience (at least 150 hours) and nonclinical volunteering to the underserved?

 

[Hi_I'mPaul]

I would just continue your post-bacc. Keep doing well and destroy the MCAT (seems like you're a good test-taker since you scored well on the GRE). So, study hard, get a high MCAT. Raise your cGPA to as high as you can before next year and you'll put yourself in a good spot. Also, an SMP wouldn't count to raising your cGPA, if you didn't know.