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[music3ngineer]

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I am a biomedical engineering major and premed student at Yale University, and I am freaking out because I want to go to medical school but my GPA is not stellar. If you take out all the engineering classes (still keeping in all the premed classes), my GPA would be 3.87, but with the engineering classes its more like 3.72. I am feeling like engineering was the wrong choice, but there is really nothing I can do now because I'm a rising senior. I feel like I've missed out significantly on extracurriculars and lab experience because I've worked two jobs throughout college. I am going to take a gap year after I graduate from college, but I'm feeling more and more stressed every day about getting into medical school and paying for it as the child of a single parent. What even are my chances of getting into good medical schools? I am feeling lost.

 

[ciestar]

I had a 3.73 and got into medical school. Your GPA is not an issue.

 

[BuckStrickland]

I am a biomedical engineering major and premed student at Yale University, and I am freaking out because I want to go to medical school but my GPA is not stellar. If you take out all the engineering classes (still keeping in all the premed classes), my GPA would be 3.87, but with the engineering classes its more like 3.72. I am feeling like engineering was the wrong choice, but there is really nothing I can do now because I'm a rising senior. I feel like I've missed out significantly on extracurriculars and lab experience because I've worked two jobs throughout college. I am going to take a gap year after I graduate from college, but I'm feeling more and more stressed every day about getting into medical school and paying for it as the child of a single parent. What even are my chances of getting into good medical schools? I am feeling lost.

Your chances will depend to a large degree on your MCAT score. A 3.72 is still in the range of GPAs taken by top schools (see attached for Cornell as an example).

 

[freedoctor17]

Your GPA is fine but you'll probably want to take some time to get other experiences on your application. Since your a rising senior I'm assuming you plan to take at least one gap year?

 

[know_about_life]

Hey music3ngineer,

Let me tell you a bit about med school applications that you don't normally see on forums like this––you're in. No, seriously, you're in. Even if you do lackluster on the MCAT. Even if you're not happy with your activities, etc.

Absolutely every single med school in this country wants people like you. A 3.87 GPA is extremely high, and being BME makes that even better. Unlike most posting in these forums, you actually spent your time studying something REAL that isn't just cramming and memorizing things for exams and forgetting it all the next week. Engineering teaches you how systems operate and evolve in time, and the human body is highest form of engineering there is. I got my BA/MS in Physics from Penn, with a similar situation like you, and it all worked out fine.

Stop worrying, and enjoy your life a bit before it starts to get hectic again on the other side! The stress is totally not worth it. Just apply and you'll see.

 

[curbsideconsult]

Gawd, only on SDN do you find people who neurotically obsess over a 3.72 GPA with an engineering degree from Yale (ok, maybe not only on SDN).

Agreed with ciestar that your GPA is not an issue. You'll need to get involved in clinical work and service to the needy ASAP and start racking up those hours now.

If you're really, truly stressed about this GPA thing and not just humblebragging, I'd like to point out some of your highlights just in your first short post:

• 3.72 GPA
• Engineering
• Yale
• Single parent
• Two jobs while earning that 3.72 engineering GPA

If you do well on the MCAT and get in some clinical and volunteering work, I'm pretty sure you'll get at least a handful of IIs.

 

[Goro]

I am a biomedical engineering major and premed student at Yale University, and I am freaking out because I want to go to medical school but my GPA is not stellar. If you take out all the engineering classes (still keeping in all the premed classes), my GPA would be 3.87, but with the engineering classes its more like 3.72. I am feeling like engineering was the wrong choice, but there is really nothing I can do now because I'm a rising senior. I feel like I've missed out significantly on extracurriculars and lab experience because I've worked two jobs throughout college. I am going to take a gap year after I graduate from college, but I'm feeling more and more stressed every day about getting into medical school and paying for it as the child of a single parent. What even are my chances of getting into good medical schools? I am feeling lost.

Can you enlighten us as to why you think your GPA is not competitive for med school??????

 

[breachnaked]

3.29.....got into 5 school (yes I'm a vet, but still....) ...you are fine