If your cGPA/sGPA includes your post-bacc coursework, you're in trouble.
Long story short, consider a disciplined pivot to an accelerated nursing program, doing well, and proceeding to nurse practitioner programs down the line. I don't think what you would need to do to become palatable to medical schools at this point would be worth it for anyone.
I don't say it to discourage you, it would just be a very long, unnecessarily arduous, and ultimately high-risk path. Your EC profile will be light for a nontraditional student hoping to compensate for metrics. You would need years of academic reinvention up to and probably including an SMP at this point, and even getting there would be a steep ask given that the reputable programs are medical school admissions-adjacent competitive processes, where most students are somewhat reasonable applicants to professional programs already. The MCAT would remain a huge obstacle, and you've already stepped in it by taking it unprepared. Your LORs literally don't matter and nobody will remember you (good luck updating those dates) by the time you apply. Your professors and colleagues will develop a strong amnesia and forget all about how hard you worked doing x, y, z with them. Sad, but it's been my experience and that of countless others here.
The bigger problem reinvention at this scale is that you would essentially be asked to move mountains just to have the privilege of applying.
If it were me (and at one point it
was me), I would cut my losses and put my effort behind a durable credential, not additional useless education. All of healthcare is professionally closed (in the sociological sense of occupational closure) through licensing, so even doing a master's in the medical sciences is totally pointless without one.
It is not a credential you can take to a job, or some other professional school, and expect them to care. It is a degree that only exists because they are offered by medical schools and considered by medical schools for a narrow, admissions-related reason (read: medical schools wanted students to stop trying to prove themselves for admission with an MPH and figured they might as well cash in on those students rather than let them spend their tuition dollars at the public health school). They get paid whether or not you make it into medical school.
Worse, say you do make it to an SMP, but are not successful in admissions. Now you're deeper in the hole and even more psychologically predisposed to recoup sunk cost. You would be in a position where the Caribbean and other clearly opportunistic Hail Mary-type programs become alluring to prospective students. You really don't want to be in that situation entering into your 30s.
At least, with ~14-18 months, you get an RN/BSN, can start working right away, and negotiate for tuition reimbursement from your hospital for your next step on the side. The wage ceiling for nurses is obviously lower than it is for physicians, but I think MD/DO and even PA are too far away for it to make sense, and what you would spend trying to get there would dwarf what you would pay for nursing school at your local state school.
Long term, I think it's just the next rational step...
