Is that cGPA or sGPA? State of residency? URM? Does good university mean your state flagship or are we talking MIT? If you need to work full time, that should take priority over a 3.55 repair.
That's my cGPA. My sGPA is similar though. Not much variance. My trend was 1st year 3.53, 2nd year (hurt me the most) 3.1, 3rd year 3.8, 4th year 3.6. All these numbers are from the top of my head, but they should be accurate.
I kind of let outside factors affect my grades, which was my mistake. I need to work on blocking out everything and being ultra focused. My second year had outside things in my life affect me on top of taking a difficult course load. Same with my fourth year, but I did decently.
A good university in the sense that it's top 25 in those ranking things the last time I checked. I don't put much weight into that.
I suggest to applicants to feel they
I often recommend to students who feel they may need to improve their application to continue to do so during their glide year. The reason is two fold. First, you can include an update or have a discussion point at an interview about what you have been doing lately. The second reason, it leaves you fully prepared to be an improved candidate on any potential reapplication. With less than 1/2 of applicants being accepted, it should be the default mode of many applicants, yet few do so. Indeed most medical schools say the most common mistake of reapplicants is applying too soon, before they have repaired deficiencies.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/help-potential-reapplicant.1191833/#post-17598336
Didn't even think of that. That's a good way to look at this. I was looking at it positively, but I have to be pragmatic as well.
The issue is 1) working full-time helps me immensely because of saving up money to pay off apps, traveling for interviews (hopefully), and some student loans. 2) I don't really have too much money to be taking classes at a private institute. Therefore, I would be looking at taking classes at community college or state/city schools around me.
What sort of classes, institutes, etc should I look at. This wouldn't be some post-bac program since I would need to apply for that. I don't know too much about this simply because I hadn't thought of improving my GPA much, since my full focus is on acing this MCAT.
