Do I Stand a Chance This Late with Poor GPA?

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I am a 4th year Integrative Biology major at UC Berkeley. I am currently in the process of applying and know I am in the very tailing end. I was wondering if anyone is still in the application process as well and what you are being told about applying this late. I wanted to apply after I got my DAT scores (which I took in July 25th this summer), but as soon as school started, everything got put on hold because I'm taking a heavy course load of science courses to hopefully make up for my terrible science GPA. Now I'm struggling to get one last biology class recommendations (Effin public school professors!).

My stats:
tGPA=3.03
sGPA=2.85
DAT= AA23 (QR29 RC23 TS20=GCh22+Bio22+OCh18) PAT26
Experience= Nicaragua Spring Break Dental Clinic, shadowing Cal Athletics Dentist, worked at my dad's office since HS, worked at his friend's office over Winter Break, shadowed a periodontist (didn't enjoy it), volunteered at a hospital over a summer
Extracurricular= Cal PreDental Society Co-DEOP Officer (I organize members going to local elementary schools to teach oral health), will teach a 1-Unit oral health course

Schools I'm applying to: USC, Loma Linda, NYU, BU, UOP, UNLV, Temple, Western

Do I stand a chance at any of these schools applying this late with this terrible, terrible GPA??

 

[Tommy43087]

I am a 4th year Integrative Biology major at UC Berkeley. I am currently in the process of applying and know I am in the very tailing end. I was wondering if anyone is still in the application process as well and what you are being told about applying this late. I wanted to apply after I got my DAT scores (which I took in July 25th this summer), but as soon as school started, everything got put on hold because I'm taking a heavy course load of science courses to hopefully make up for my terrible science GPA. Now I'm struggling to get one last biology class recommendations (Effin public school professors!).

My stats:
tGPA=3.03
sGPA=2.85
DAT= AA23 (QR29 RC23 TS20=GCh22+Bio22+OCh18) PAT26
Experience= Nicaragua Spring Break Dental Clinic, shadowing Cal Athletics Dentist, worked at my dad's office since HS, worked at his friend's office over Winter Break, shadowed a periodontist (didn't enjoy it), volunteered at a hospital over a summer
Extracurricular= Cal PreDental Society Co-DEOP Officer (I organize members going to local elementary schools to teach oral health), will teach a 1-Unit oral health course

Schools I'm applying to: USC, Loma Linda, NYU, BU, UOP, UNLV, Temple, Western

Do I stand a chance at any of these schools applying this late with this terrible, terrible GPA??

I think you have a decent chance because of you awesome EC's and great DAT (although the 18 in Ochem shows a correlation with the sciGPA)...

BUTTT do not be sad when you get some really quick(automatic) rejections from some schools, because some schools have extremely strict cutoffs for sciGPA!

Good Luck! 👍