Do I Apply This Cycle?

[Trauma60]

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Here's my situation (not a URM):

Undergrad GPA: 2.84

Post-Bacc GPA: 3.9

MCAT: 19, but took Kaplan and plan on taking the MCAT on July 26

Good ECs: including EMT certified, lots of volunteer and shadowing hours (both abroad and in the US), and just started doing research.

I wanted to get some opinions on what to do at this point. I plan on applying to both MD and DO. Should I:

1) Apply now and get my application in early, and add my new MCAT score when it comes in?

2) Apply in mid August once my (hopefully) better MCAT score comes in, even though it's peak application time?

3) Apply early next cycle (June 1) with my (hopefully) better MCAT scores

4) Feel free to add a fourth option

Thanks for the help. All opinions are greatly appreciated!

 

[theWUbear]

You haven't told us what your amcas GPA will be (the weighted avg of your college and postbacc GPAs). I say don't apply this cycle. Worry about your Mcat, apply June 1 next cycle

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[tide11189]

What's your ACCOMAS gpa?

 

[MedBound1]

Here's my situation (not a URM):

Undergrad GPA: 2.84

Post-Bacc GPA: 3.9

MCAT: 19, but took Kaplan and plan on taking the MCAT on July 26

Good ECs: including EMT certified, lots of volunteer and shadowing hours (both abroad and in the US), and just started doing research.

I wanted to get some opinions on what to do at this point. I plan on applying to both MD and DO. Should I:

1) Apply now and get my application in early, and add my new MCAT score when it comes in?

2) Apply in mid August once my (hopefully) better MCAT score comes in, even though it's peak application time?

3) Apply early next cycle (June 1) with my (hopefully) better MCAT scores

4) Feel free to add a fourth option

Thanks for the help. All opinions are greatly appreciated!

Taking a guess that your AMCAS gpa couldn't be much over 3.0-3.2, you would need one hell of a score (were talking like 35+ to be considered for any MD programs, and even still, it would be tough). I would take a year to continue building your application and see where your new MCAT is.

 

[Trauma60]

Not sure at this point what my weighted average GPA is. However I didn't re-take any undergrad courses at the post-bacc I went to (KGI).

 

[Trauma60]

Here's my situation (not a URM):

Undergrad GPA: 2.84

Post-Bacc GPA: 3.9

MCAT: 19, but took Kaplan and plan on taking the MCAT on July 26

Good ECs: including EMT certified, lots of volunteer and shadowing hours (both abroad and in the US), and just started doing research.

I wanted to get some opinions on what to do at this point. I plan on applying to both MD and DO. Should I:

1) Apply now and get my application in early, and add my new MCAT score when it comes in?

2) Apply in mid August once my (hopefully) better MCAT score comes in, even though it's peak application time?

3) Apply early next cycle (June 1) with my (hopefully) better MCAT scores

4) Feel free to add a fourth option

Thanks for the help. All opinions are greatly appreciated!

 

[Soccer171983]

It will be an uphill battle no matter what you do. The gpa is low and the mcat is even lower. There is only so much ec's can help to offset other statistics. If you want medicine more than anything you might have to resort to carribean schools or other countries ( uag- Mexico) etc. I feel that allopathic is out of the question aNd that osteopathic is still a stretch. I would apply broad and wide I any feasible option you feel you can tolerate and go full steam ahead. You need to consider what you would do if you are not accepted and how much Time you are willing to put in to get into a medical school.

 

[bajastapler]

Great job on your post-bacc! If I were in your position, I would consider taking the year off. Focus on your MCAT and broading your career choices. Apply for med schools early next cycle and also consider applying to PA schools and NP schools.

gl!

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

How are you doing on your FLs? Either way for MD you're out unless you do a SMP and get a 30+ on the mcat. For DO you'll probably be done around early September, which if you get a good enough score may be able to get some love from a low tier school.

Great job on your post-bacc! If I were in your position, I would consider taking the year off. Focus on your MCAT and broading your career choices. Apply for med schools early next cycle and also consider applying to PA schools and NP schools.

gl!

PA schools require high gpa's and upwards of 5,000 hours of clinical paid experience. Nursing school is a possibility if all else fails.

 

[Catalystik]

Here's my situation (not a URM):

Undergrad GPA: 2.84

Post-Bacc GPA: 3.9

MCAT: 19, but took Kaplan and plan on taking the MCAT on July 26

Good ECs: including EMT certified, lots of volunteer and shadowing hours (both abroad and in the US), and just started doing research.

I wanted to get some opinions on what to do at this point. I plan on applying to both MD and DO. Should I:

1) Apply now and get my application in early, and add my new MCAT score when it comes in?

2) Apply in mid August once my (hopefully) better MCAT score comes in, even though it's peak application time?

3) Apply early next cycle (June 1) with my (hopefully) better MCAT scores

4) Feel free to add a fourth option

Thanks for the help. All opinions are greatly appreciated!

How many hours of postbac have you taken?
What is your cGPA including the college GPA and postbac GPA?
What are your sGPA and BCPM GPA?
Have you retaken any classes? What? What was the second grade?
You know about the AACOMAS grade forgiveness policy, right?
Like serenade, I'd like to know your MCAT practice scores.

 

[Trauma60]

How many hours of postbac have you taken?
What is your cGPA including the college GPA and postbac GPA?
What are your sGPA and BCPM GPA?
Have you retaken any classes? What? What was the second grade?
You know about the AACOMAS grade forgiveness policy, right?
Like serenade, I'd like to know your MCAT practice scores.

I did my post-bacc at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute) and did the equivalent of 16 units at a standard UC school. I re-took only a couple classes including O-chem and got an A+. I do know about the AACOMAS policy. I only took one FL thus far and got a 23, but that was with limited studying. I'm just studying MCAT now. I haven't figured out my other GPAs yet.

 

[Trauma60]

How are you doing on your FLs? Either way for MD you're out unless you do a SMP and get a 30+ on the mcat. For DO you'll probably be done around early September, which if you get a good enough score may be able to get some love from a low tier school.




PA schools require high gpa's and upwards of 5,000 hours of clinical paid experience. Nursing school is a possibility if all else fails.

I did my post-bacc at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute) and did the equivalent of 16 units at a standard UC school. I re-took only a couple classes including O-chem and got an A+. I do know about the AACOMAS policy. I only took one FL thus far and got a 23, but that was with limited studying. I'm just studying MCAT now. I haven't figured out my other GPAs yet.

 

[Trauma60]

Taking a guess that your AMCAS gpa couldn't be much over 3.0-3.2, you would need one hell of a score (were talking like 35+ to be considered for any MD programs, and even still, it would be tough). I would take a year to continue building your application and see where your new MCAT is.

Not sure at this point what my weighted average GPA is. However I didn't re-take any undergrad courses at the post-bacc I went to (KGI).

 

[Catalystik]

I did my post-bacc at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute) and did the equivalent of 16 units at a standard UC school.

I haven't figured out my other GPAs yet.

This might help:
AMCAS GPA Calculation Spreadsheet

For DO, only include the retake, provided the credit hours were the same or greater.

 

[theWUbear]

I don't know what KGI is (yes it's probably whatever the school is that came up first on google search), but "post-bacc" means you took undergrad courses, meaning you should put all of your undergrad courses ever made in an excel spreadsheet and see what your overall GPA is now. If you meant to say you did graduate work after undergrad, not post-bacc undergrade work, that is a different story for MD schools (not for DO, you still average them for DO)

 

[Trauma60]

This might help:
AMCAS GPA Calculation Spreadsheet

For DO, only include the retake, provided the credit hours were the same or greater.

Thanks Catalystik!

 

[gettheleadout]

You haven't told us what your amcas GPA will be (the weighted avg of your college and postbacc GPAs). I say don't apply this cycle. Worry about your Mcat, apply June 1 next cycle

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What's your ACCOMAS gpa?

Taking a guess that your AMCAS gpa couldn't be much over 3.0-3.2, you would need one hell of a score (were talking like 35+ to be considered for any MD programs, and even still, it would be tough). I would take a year to continue building your application and see where your new MCAT is.

Not sure at this point what my weighted average GPA is. However I didn't re-take any undergrad courses at the post-bacc I went to (KGI).

Not sure at this point what my weighted average GPA is. However I didn't re-take any undergrad courses at the post-bacc I went to (KGI).

I don't know what KGI is (yes it's probably whatever the school is that came up first on google search), but "post-bacc" means you took undergrad courses, meaning you should put all of your undergrad courses ever made in an excel spreadsheet and see what your overall GPA is now. If you meant to say you did graduate work after undergrad, not post-bacc undergrade work, that is a different story for MD schools (not for DO, you still average them for DO)

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