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Well, first off, I should mention that I'm on a quarter system just to avoid confusion.
I'm definitely a non-traditional applicant. I did Running Start for junior and senior year of high school, did AWFUL, stayed at that community college one more year and finally stopped going cause I was getting nowhere. I finished there with only 75 credits (the equivalent of 5 quarters) with a 2.09 GPA.
After working at UPS and then Comcast for about 3 years I realized I wanted to go back to school to be a doctor.
I came back to a different community college, did 5 quarters there, 80 credits, 3.78 GPA or so.
Transferred to my state university after that and got a 3.55 for the year (I did poorly in o-chem second quarter, but got a 3.84 for Spring so it averaged out). That was 46 credits.
I didn't really do ANY science at that previous school, except pre-calc, but ended up doing calc 1-3 at the next community college and am not sure whether my pre-calc grade (2.0) will count toward my sGPA since it was so long ago and I did three classes beyond it and did much better in those. My overall sGPA, including the 4 pre-req series + calc 1-3 + stats = 3.59.
I think most schools will probably see that my awful performance was more than 5 years ago and just discount all of it, but will there be any schools that average everything together and just automatically deny me because I'd be closer to a 3.0 or 3.1 with those years included, and never even look further? I think overall my recent GPA is competitive, but it would suck to not even be considered because a complete average utterly tanks my overall GPA.
I'm definitely a non-traditional applicant. I did Running Start for junior and senior year of high school, did AWFUL, stayed at that community college one more year and finally stopped going cause I was getting nowhere. I finished there with only 75 credits (the equivalent of 5 quarters) with a 2.09 GPA.
After working at UPS and then Comcast for about 3 years I realized I wanted to go back to school to be a doctor.
I came back to a different community college, did 5 quarters there, 80 credits, 3.78 GPA or so.
Transferred to my state university after that and got a 3.55 for the year (I did poorly in o-chem second quarter, but got a 3.84 for Spring so it averaged out). That was 46 credits.
I didn't really do ANY science at that previous school, except pre-calc, but ended up doing calc 1-3 at the next community college and am not sure whether my pre-calc grade (2.0) will count toward my sGPA since it was so long ago and I did three classes beyond it and did much better in those. My overall sGPA, including the 4 pre-req series + calc 1-3 + stats = 3.59.
I think most schools will probably see that my awful performance was more than 5 years ago and just discount all of it, but will there be any schools that average everything together and just automatically deny me because I'd be closer to a 3.0 or 3.1 with those years included, and never even look further? I think overall my recent GPA is competitive, but it would suck to not even be considered because a complete average utterly tanks my overall GPA.
