Grades from Community College

[Tgamlen]

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I've spent 4.5 years at a Community College (switched my major from music to Psych after 3 years). I have more C's than any other grade because I was not applying myself at all BUT my GPA has been twice as strong this last year. When I'm applying to med schools will they turn me down even though the grades are mainly in elective courses taken 2+ years ago? I'm transferring to a private school next fall and my GPA this semester was over 3.50 but overall it's a 2.37 and I still have two years left until I get my degree. If I continue to get all 3.5-4.0 grades for the next two years my major gpa should be overall around 3.5. Do you think med schools will give me a better chance because it shows academic growth and maturity? In my first year in community college I had a 1.67 and I was on academic probation and this semester I earned a 3.65 and received a scholarship.

 

[Poliscidoc]

I've spent 4.5 years at a Community College (switched my major from music to Psych after 3 years). I have more C's than any other grade because I was not applying myself at all BUT my GPA has been twice as strong this last year. When I'm applying to med schools will they turn me down even though the grades are mainly in elective courses taken 2+ years ago? I'm transferring to a private school next fall and my GPA this semester was over 3.50 but overall it's a 2.37 and I still have two years left until I get my degree. If I continue to get all 3.5-4.0 grades for the next two years my major gpa should be overall around 3.5. Do you think med schools will give me a better chance because it shows academic growth and maturity? In my first year in community college I had a 1.67 and I was on academic probation and this semester I earned a 3.65 and received a scholarship.

Apply DO or Carib, MD is kind of out of the window. But I want to know how in hell did you stay at a community college for 4.5 years? You switched after 3 years but degrees from cc only take 2 years?

 

[chman]

Apply DO or Carib, MD is kind of out of the window. But I want to know how in hell did you stay at a community college for 4.5 years? You switched after 3 years but degrees from cc only take 2 years?

This. Staying at a cc for that long makes no sense, and this is coming from a cc student.

Also, agree, apply DO if you want a real shot.

 

[smarttee88]

I'm also a CC student and agree with above. 4.5 years at a CC is a bit long and due to the negative stigma that CC's sometimes carry, I assume that adcoms would EXPECT your gpa to be much stronger having spent that much time there. DO is definitely still within your reach.

 

[Tgamlen]

I was a music major and just didn't care at all about what I was doing in college. I eventually got smart and switched my major to something I was more interested in but due to budget cuts in California I waited on transferring and completed some lower division classes at the same school. At one point I joined the coast guard to help pay for college but I ended up leaving a few months later because of asthma. If my grades continue to stay above 3.5 from now until I get my undergrad and explain to adcoms about my lack of direction and budget cuts AND I do a post-bacc program will I ever any chance of allopathic schools? 😳

 

[FrkyBgStok]

No. also if you took 4.5 years worth of classes at 12 credits a semester not including summers with an approx C+ average, i think you would need another 200 credits at 4.0 to bring your cGPA to 3.40 which isn't competitive for MD. You really don't have any chance at allopathic schools. but with DO schools you can retake some of your Cs and they will replace the grade.

and with that cGPA as it is, you can't really get anything less than a 4.0.