Honesty on my chances of attending medical school based on background and two plans

[Grean26]

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Either plan is fine. You need to raise your sGPA and cGPA to 3.0 so however long that takes should be your goal. Also at some point you will need to take the MCAT but do not take it until your practice scores are consistently 505 and higher. Texas residency will help you and there may be 2 new MD schools opening in Texas by 2020.

 

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[Grean26]

Either plan is fine. You need to raise your sGPA and cGPA to 3.0 so however long that takes should be your goal. Also at some point you will need to take the MCAT but do not take it until your practice scores are consistently 505 and higher. Texas residency will help you and there may be 2 new MD schools opening in Texas by 2020.

Thanks for replying! It's probably worth mentioning that the UNT health science center masters program requires either my cGPA be a 3.0 or the last 60 credit hours before completing my bachelors be a minimum 3.0 (this is besides having a solid MCAT score). I fulfill the latter because I cleaned up my act towards the end of my undergrad. However, if I get into the masters program and finish with a 4.0 gpa, my cGPA will still be under 3.0. I calculated this to be the case even if I only do the post-bacc program at GWU before attending UNT. I'm assuming this won't look too good even with a 4.0 in the masters program when it comes to applying to medical school afterwards. Since you recommend doing what it takes to get my cGPA to 3.0, I think I'll skip the post-bacc program at GWU and just do a post-bacc in Houston. Doing it in Houston allows me to take enough courses to raise my cGPA to 3.0 and will be half the cost of GWU's program. What are your thoughts on this?

Main point of all this is will Texas medical schools not mind a sub 3.0 cGPA (i.e 2.8-2.9 or something) if I show massive improvement with the GWU post-bacc and UNT masters program? If not, I'm off to raise my cGPA through the other less costly route.

 

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The post bacc in Houston sounds like a good plan. The GPA-MCAT grid shows that if you have a GPA in the 2.8 to 2.99 range and a MCAT of 510 then your chances for a MD acceptance are ~50%. If your GPA is in the 3.0 to 3.19 range with a MCAT of 510 then your chances for a MD acceptance are ~75%.

 

[Grean26]

The post bacc in Houston sounds like a good plan. The GPA-MCAT grid shows that if you have a GPA in the 2.8 to 2.99 range and a MCAT of 510 then your chances for a MD acceptance are ~50%. If your GPA is in the 3.0 to 3.19 range with a MCAT of 510 then your chances for a MD acceptance are ~75%.

Thanks, that made it easier to choose!