help....21L on mcat...2.4 gpa

[jacksonmd]

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what's my chance of getting into a US school? should i even bother applying, or just try my luck with the Caribbean med schools? i know my gpa is absolutely pathetic, and needs to be better...would getting a master's in biochemistry (and getting a stellar gpa) be any help? any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[startswithb]

How many credit hours do you have?

 

[Pons Asinorum]

what's my chance of getting into a US school?

MD - None
DO - Terrible

would getting a master's in biochemistry (and getting a stellar gpa) be any help?

No help at all. Undergraduate and graduate GPA's are calculated separately, and viewed differently by adcoms (MA/MS grades are notoriously inflated). You will also have a problem getting acceptance into many non-medical graduate programs with your GPA.

You need to rehabilitate that uGPA; that's why startswithb asks your credit hours. You need to take undergraduate science classes, and probably retake all of your MD/DO prereqs, and try to get that GPA up. Improving your GPA is probably more realistically possible than increasing your MCAT to the point that schools would overlook your GPA. Regardless, 3.0 uGPA/3.3 BCPM GPA should be your targets. It's going to take a while and a lot of hard work to get there. If you want to be a physician bad enough, others on here have made similar improvements and gotten acceptances.

 

[modsar]

Are you a minority? Hopefully you are. That would help.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

MD - None
DO - Terrible



No help at all. Undergraduate and graduate GPA's are calculated separately, and viewed differently by adcoms (MA/MS grades are notoriously inflated). You will also have a problem getting acceptance into many non-medical graduate programs with your GPA.

You need to rehabilitate that uGPA; that's why startswithb asks your credit hours. You need to take undergraduate science classes, and probably retake all of your MD/DO prereqs, and try to get that GPA up. Improving your GPA is probably more realistically possible than increasing your MCAT to the point that schools would overlook your GPA. Regardless, 3.0 uGPA/3.3 BCPM GPA should be your targets. It's going to take a while and a lot of hard work to get there. If you want to be a physician bad enough, others on here have made similar improvements and gotten acceptances.

Actually a masters might help slightly ( I know a few people in pre-do who have managed to get an acceptance due to good gpa's in their masters). However +1 for the retaking courses till your gpa returns to a decent level. Then you need to murder the mcat.

 

[Pons Asinorum]

Actually a masters might help slightly ( I know a few people in pre-do who have managed to get an acceptance due to good gpa's in their masters). However +1 for the retaking courses till your gpa returns to a decent level. Then you need to murder the mcat.

Completely agree. "Should I get a Masters?" gets asked here so much I'm starting to think it's some kind of pathologic avoidance mechanism. Get your uGPA up and rock the MCAT. All else being equal, that is the secret path to an MD acceptance.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Completely agree. "Should I get a Masters?" gets asked here so much I'm starting to think it's some kind of pathologic avoidance mechanism. Get your uGPA up and rock the MCAT. All else being equal, that is the secret path to an MD acceptance.

Honestly it is. There are way too many people on here who hear the words " retake the mcat" and they convert that into " Consider a masters".

 

[petyr_baelish]

what's my chance of getting into a US school? should i even bother applying, or just try my luck with the Caribbean med schools? i know my gpa is absolutely pathetic, and needs to be better...would getting a master's in biochemistry (and getting a stellar gpa) be any help? any advice is greatly appreciated.

You'll definitely get into podiatry school. Some podiatrists even refer to it as medical school since the first two years are so similar. Plus, you get to do surgery at the end of 4 years + residency! Guaranteed!

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

You'll definitely get into podiatry school. Some podiatrists even refer to it as medical school since the first two years are so similar. Plus, you get to do surgery at the end of 4 years + residency! Guaranteed!

His gpa is still too low. Podiatry = 3.2/22.