Is it possible to get accepted into medical school?

[Bak90160]

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So here's my story. My senior year of high school, I went through a huge stage of depression that carried over into my first semester of freshman year. I'm not making any excuses because only I am responsible for my grades and if I was not ready to start college, I should have waited a semester. I ended my first semester with a 1.742 GPA.
After that, I decided that I was going to have to work my butt off to get into medical school. The following is how my following semesters were:
2nd semester freshman year- 3.241
Summer 1st quarter - 3.5
Summer 2nd quarter - 4.0
1st semester sophomore year - 3.448
2nd semester sophomore year - 3.771
1st semester junior year - 3.657
2nd semester junior year - 4.0
Summer 2nd quarter - 4.0
1st semester senior year - 4.0
2nd semester senior year - 4.0
FINAL CUMULATIVE GPA - 3.575
I have over 250 hours of volunteering for the suicide prevention lifeline, rape crisis lifeline, and domestic violence lifeline.
I have undergraduate research experience.
I work as a medical scribe and gained lots of clinical experience that taught me so much about what it's like to work in the medical field.
I have not taken the MCAT yet but I am going to work diligently to make a good score.
Do I have a chance at getting into medical school?

 

[•Syzygy•]

yes you do have a chance. that should be obvious if you take a look at average gpas of some medical schools. your ecs also seem fine.

if you get a nice mcat, say 510 + you will be good for some MD’s and 505+ for all DO’s.

because your gpa is borderline for MD (much like mine), you will need to make sure you do a few things:
1. apply early
2. apply intelligently, as in do your research on out of state vs in state acceptances, median gpa and mcat and “unwritten” requirements like community service (rush for example loves service and has a 200 something hour requirement )
3. articulate your experiences in a stand out way. ie make sure you have a well written application


with all that being said, come back when you have taken the MCAT

 

[chemdoctor]

Nice work with the last few semesters being 4.0s. Upwards trends are always good. As the above poster said, take the MCAT and do well. If you apply strategically you should be fine.

 

[Goro]

So here's my story. My senior year of high school, I went through a huge stage of depression that carried over into my first semester of freshman year. I'm not making any excuses because only I am responsible for my grades and if I was not ready to start college, I should have waited a semester. I ended my first semester with a 1.742 GPA.
After that, I decided that I was going to have to work my butt off to get into medical school. The following is how my following semesters were:
2nd semester freshman year- 3.241
Summer 1st quarter - 3.5
Summer 2nd quarter - 4.0
1st semester sophomore year - 3.448
2nd semester sophomore year - 3.771
1st semester junior year - 3.657
2nd semester junior year - 4.0
Summer 2nd quarter - 4.0
1st semester senior year - 4.0
2nd semester senior year - 4.0
FINAL CUMULATIVE GPA - 3.575
I have over 250 hours of volunteering for the suicide prevention lifeline, rape crisis lifeline, and domestic violence lifeline.
I have undergraduate research experience.
I work as a medical scribe and gained lots of clinical experience that taught me so much about what it's like to work in the medical field.
I have not taken the MCAT yet but I am going to work diligently to make a good score.
Do I have a chance at getting into medical school?

Yes. There are plenty of schools that reward reinvention, and we like come from behind stories.

 

[Bak90160]

yes you do have a chance. that should be obvious if you take a look at average gpas of some medical schools. your ecs also seem fine.

if you get a nice mcat, say 510 + you will be good for some MD’s and 505+ for all DO’s.

because your gpa is borderline for MD (much like mine), you will need to make sure you do a few things:
1. apply early
2. apply intelligently, as in do your research on out of state vs in state acceptances, median gpa and mcat and “unwritten” requirements like community service (rush for example loves service and has a 200 something hour requirement )
3. articulate your experiences in a stand out way. ie make sure you have a well written application


with all that being said, come back when you have taken the MCAT

Thank you!

 

[Tyrone.]

Yes. There are plenty of schools that reward reinvention, and we like come from behind stories.

Could you elaborate further on which schools, in-particular, would reward reinvention most likely?

 

[Shotapp]

Could you elaborate further on which schools, in-particular, would reward reinvention most likely?

Georgetown
Miami
St. Louis
Albany
Albert Einstein
Rochester
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
BU
NYMC
VCU
EVMS
U Va
Va Tech
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
Creighton
George Washington
Emory
USC
Tulane
Dartmouth
Loyola
Creighton
Any new MD school, especially Hofstra
Any DO program

 

[Tyrone.]

Thank you @Shotapp

 

[Goro]

Georgetown
Miami
Albany
Rochester
Rush
Rosalind Franklin
BU
NYMC
VCU
EVMS
Wake Forest
Jefferson
Temple
Drexel
George Washington
USC (maybe)
Tulane
Dartmouth
Loyola
Hofstra
Any DO program

To this list add: Your state school, any DO school, Columbia, UCSF, Case, Mayo, Vandy, Pitt, Tufts, and even NYU, if you have a massive MCAT score.

 

[Tyrone.]

~3.5 both GPAs and planning to kill the MCAT in a good way. I test really well and I'll be taking an in-person course so I can score as well as possible. So, that's pretty much where I'll be at by applying time. 30 y/o at applying time as well, if that's anything to think about for some schools. Thanks, btw!

 

[Walter Raleigh]

@Goro: does he have any chance at schools like Harvard or Yale with 500+ hours of hospice volunteering and an absolutely stellar (523+) MCAT?

If I was him, I'd be shooting for a 510+ for low-tier MDs and state schools, and a 515+ for mid-tiers. He'd need probably a 520 or better to be gunning for top 20s.