Insights on my chances please?

[alnk]

Want to get into a DO program...

MCAT: 27N

Undergrad GPA: 2.33
Post-bacc GPA: 4.0

Experiences include:

Donor Tissue Recovery
Physical therapy aide
Clinical Exercise physiology research (1 year - stress tests, strength tests, body comp, RMR, etc)
Orthpaedics lab research (2 yrs, 4 publications)
Clinical Cancer research (6mo)

I really want this to happen but have been getting a lot of resistance (due to GPA I assume...)

What's your opinion? Thanks!!!

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[advair250]

What is your sGPA? And what would your cGPA be with the post-bacc included?

You have great experiences, impressed you were able to obtain them with a 2.x undergrad gpa. At my school, pretty much only the people with high gpa's can get involved with research. Kudos!

 

[alnk]

Thanks for the reply advair250!

I'm not sure what my sGPA and cGPA are right now. I am having trouble locating the spreadsheet. I think last time I checked, the sGPA was 3.01 and cGPA was 2.96? something around that range. That 2.33 GPA was because I started off in an engineering program and, despite my efforts, the info just wasn't getting through to me. I didn't make the decision to pursue medicine until after I graduated and worked in the field for some time. It's rough to try and dig your way out of a 2.33 though =(

 

[Catalystik]

DO GPA calculation spreadsheet: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=450050
Newer modified version: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=839864

AMCAS BCPM GPA varies from AACOMAS sGPA, and includes (scroll to bottom half): http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=552026

If you didn't strategize already, be sure you omitted Engineering classes that were mostly math from your sGPA.

 

[alnk]

Thanks Catalystik!

I'll check those out and see what my numbers are.

 

[411309]

get your gpa to a 3.0, do some community service and I think you will get interviews.