Confused about the GPA calculation. If your GPA is 3.1 and sGPA is 2.7, I have no idea where that 3.5 came from. You need GPA recovery in addition to a good MCAT score to be competitive for MD/DO. Sadly, research is nice, but it is not going to carry an application. You need to ask yourself if medicine is worth the time and risk - if you don't accept the job and study MCAT full time, take post-bac classes, and build extracurriculars for your app there is still no guarantee that you will get into a medical school. On the other hand - research coordinator sounds good, get you some income, can spend more time with your kids, work on moving up in academia maybe (PhD needed).
If you want to be a doctor, decline job, take post-bac for GPA repair, score 515+ on MCAT, work on ECs, and apply MD and DO. This thread is relevant to you.
So you want to be a doctor, but your GPA is terrible. Is that the end? Rule #1: Take a deep breath, and stop fussing. The sky is not falling. But you are going to need to reinvent yourself. This will take both time and money. And always remember that you’re in a marathon now, not a sprint...
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