help!!!!!

[sunshinexx]

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hey everyone.
please take a second and listen to my situation to see if you can answer my question

im graduating from a top 50 school with a bs in bio and minor in philosophy this may, cGPA right now is 2.4 and sGPA is 2.1,(i have reasons as to why i have a low gpa,an illness and other situations but i dont thnk i want to state that on any apps) im retaking couple of the chem classes i didnt do well in, my cGPA could be raised to a 2.6 by end of this spring
as for the mcats ive only taken practice ones ranging so far from 25 to 28, im scheduled to take it for the first time in march2012

i switched to a bio major at the end of my sophmore year, but since then ive shadowed plastic surgeons, neurologists, and head of peds in a hospital, i also have volunteer work in a hospital in a different country for 3 months and 7 months of research at a ivy school, plus 5 years as an asst manager in a busy dental office where the dentist let me scrub in on his cases in the OR frequently

i really want to apply to BU MAMS or UMDNJ MBS for fall 2012, what do you think are my chances for either program, and if not what can i do to get there.

thanx guys

 

[Celerity]

Take a look at the "What are my Chances?" forum.
Also, thanks to LizzyM you have a way to see if you would be in the ballpark. Honestly, with a 2.6 GPA, I don't know, but I am not an expert. Calculate your LizzyM score and look up that school's LizzyM score. If they are close, I'd say you have a shot.

Good Luck

 

[jdok]

Your top 50 school status does not matter: disregard.
Your bio major and phil minor does not matter: disregard.

What does matter is what will be noticed first on paper: your numbers.

...and with:

cGPA 2.6
sGPA 2.1
MCAT 28

...You will not be getting in anywhere in the US, IMO.

Depending on how many credits you have taken, perhaps you could do years of damage control and get back above a 3.0 GPA... then, coupled with a killer MCAT (i.e. 35+) you will prob have a shot at some low tier schools.

This is just my opinion, feel free to succeed with your numbers and prove me wrong. 😉


EDIT: wait a min - are you just aiming on applying to masters programs? If so, scratch what I said above as I declare complete ignorance on the masters front.

This. I always love the posts where they start off with "I go to a top (enter a number 10-150) school and then follow it up by a sub 3.0 GPA as if their school rank might make up for it.

Carry on.

 

[alexandertg6]

hey everyone.
please take a second and listen to my situation to see if you can answer my question

im graduating from a top 50 school with a bs in bio and minor in philosophy this may, cGPA right now is 2.4 and sGPA is 2.1,(i have reasons as to why i have a low gpa,an illness and other situations but i dont thnk i want to state that on any apps) im retaking couple of the chem classes i didnt do well in, my cGPA could be raised to a 2.6 by end of this spring
as for the mcats ive only taken practice ones ranging so far from 25 to 28, im scheduled to take it for the first time in march2012

i switched to a bio major at the end of my sophmore year, but since then ive shadowed plastic surgeons, neurologists, and head of peds in a hospital, i also have volunteer work in a hospital in a different country for 3 months and 7 months of research at a ivy school, plus 5 years as an asst manager in a busy dental office where the dentist let me scrub in on his cases in the OR frequently

i really want to apply to BU MAMS or UMDNJ MBS for fall 2012, what do you think are my chances for either program, and if not what can i do to get there.

thanx guys

I think you are right to try a masters before med school, but i dont know anything about those programs specifically. I would look into a SMP or something, because even with a killer GPA in your graduate degree, a lot of places just have a hard time overlooking a weak undergrad GPA. I echo what someone else said about posting in the What Are My Chances forum. You will need to do well on your MCAT, but I have faith!

Good luck!

Alex

 

[kpcrew]

You have about an 11% chance of getting into any school with a 2.4/28.
31% if you're hispanic, 26% if you're black, 5.8% if you're asian, 10% if you're white.

 

[LizzyM]

You have about an 11% chance of getting into any school with a 2.4/28.
31% if you're hispanic, 26% if you're black, 5.8% if you're asian, 10% if you're white.

I just want to chime in that the undergrad gpa doesn't always tell the whole story. Some of those applicants admitted with substandard gpa have done something extraordinary after college graduation, in some cases they have excellent post-bac or grad school grades, in some cases they ended up with a 2.4 with a strong upward trend after a catastrophic year that if removed from the equation makes for a much stronger application.

 

[aSagacious]

You will get better responses if you ask this question in the postbaccalaureate forums in the respective threads for BU and UMDNJ. Good luck.