I need advice/help

[smala04]

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Hi everyone,


I'm currently a junior community health major and I had some questions about my chances of medical school I wanted to tell my story and I really need some advice.


I started off as a biology major on a pre-med track.


My first two years of undergraduate was absolutely horrible. Ex.Car accident, friend passing away. My gpa started to tank terribly. After the end of my sophomore year I decided to switch majors because I wanted to graduate on time and I was very behind if I was a bio major. Currently, I'm sitting at 2.488 CGPA.


My Gpa is extremely low and my science gpa is even worse. Now that I am in a different major I can't take any pre med prerequisites because I don't have any space in my schedule for it. So I can't bring my sGPA up at the moment. I have multiple W and Fs in my transcripts. All of my advisors told me there's no hope.


I was considering doing nursing but I realized I really want to do medicine. I've gotten myself together now and I really think I can tackle these prereqs. But I really don't know if I can salvage my gpa.


I wanted to do a diy post bacc but I calculated and even with doing that my gpa still wouldn't be competitive enough. I also wanted to do a smp or a career changer but my gpa is way too low.


I would really appreciate any advice!


If you made it to the end, thank you 🙂

 

[chilly_md]

How many science credits have you done so far?

Contacting the registrar and seeing if they can do a full semester or two of retroactive W's to remove some F's would be a good idea. A postbacc is largely about showing that you can do well and are a different student from the past. It is usually shown as a separate line with its own GPA when medical schools review your application.

Even if you can't take pre-reqs now, it would be helpful to prove to yourself that you can handle college coursework in your new major. This would also help your cumulative GPA as well.

 

[Goro]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently a junior community health major and I had some questions about my chances of medical school I wanted to tell my story and I really need some advice.

I started off as a biology major on a pre-med track.

My first two years of undergraduate was absolutely horrible. Ex.Car accident, friend passing away. My gpa started to tank terribly. After the end of my sophomore year I decided to switch majors because I wanted to graduate on time and I was very behind if I was a bio major. Currently, I'm sitting at 2.488 CGPA.

If you made it to the end, thank you 🙂

Read this:
Goro's advice for pre-meds who need reinvention

 

[DoctorSparkles]

If you can show an upward trend on your GPA/sGPA and do well on the MCAT, I would say you have a shot at some of the more open minded schools. If you're able to get a clinical job post-graduation, that will go a long way too.

 

[smala04]

How many science credits have you done so far?

Contacting the registrar and seeing if they can do a full semester or two of retroactive W's to remove some F's would be a good idea. A postbacc is largely about showing that you can do well and are a different student from the past. It is usually shown as a separate line with its own GPA when medical schools review your application.

Even if you can't take pre-reqs now, it would be helpful to prove to yourself that you can handle college coursework in your new major. This would also help your cumulative GPA as well.

I have around 30 credits! Also, if I do a post bacc my sgpa still won’t be at the 3.0 but my cgpa definitely will.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Do you have a prehealth advising office? What have they told you?

 

[smala04]

Do you have a prehealth advising office? What have they told you?

Yes I do, they told me to basically give up and switch careers. They’ve been pretty unhelpful

 

[chilly_md]

There will be some schools that have sGPA cut-offs but there should still be plenty of DO schools that would consider your app after acing a postbacc.

 

[smala04]

There will be some schools that have sGPA cut-offs but there should still be plenty of DO schools that would consider your app after acing a postbacc.

I wanted to do a diy post bacc at a community college, would it be unnecessary to also do a traditional one after? Because I saw that there are post bacs with linkages to med school.

 

[chilly_md]

I wanted to do a diy post bacc at a community college, would it be unnecessary to also do a traditional one after? Because I saw that there are post bacs with linkages to med school.

If you would like the particular linkage from a formal post-bacc/SMP, that is something you can look into. Only some of them do guaranteed matriculation though, many limit it to guaranteed interview.