My chances?

[boulosp]

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I have a 3.2 GPA coming out of a top 50 university and a 29 MCAT score. I am an African American male with a full list of extra-curriculars (research, volunteering in both health and non-health related areas, sports teams, etc etc). Perhaps it is worth noting that I also skipped a grade so I am a year younger than most and will be graduating undergrad at the age of 20. I started college out shaky but I have recieved nothing less than an A- in my past 2 semesters. I applied to 20 schools and my primary has been submitted and verified for over a month and I have already completed and submitted 13 of the 20 secondaries and the other 7 I have not been sent yet and plan on finishing them immediately upon receipt. Do I have any realistic chance of being admitted this application cycle?

The schools I applied to are:
Albany
Drexel
FIU
FSU
GWU
Howard
Jefferson
Keck
Loyola Stritch
Meharry
Morehous
NYMC
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Upstate
Miami
Tulane
USF
VCU

 

[Go Ducks]

Your biggest hurdles will be your low GPA, low MCAT, and your age. Often people get in with either a low GPA OR a low MCAT score, not both. Look on this cycle as a warm-up practice cycle and plan on spending a year or two getting good grades and getting older. If you get in this cycle, great! If you don't, then at least you won't be too disappointed and you'll have something set up to do next year (maybe an SMP?).

I know a super-genius (4.0 GPA, really high MCAT, publication his freshman year, etc... totally unreal guy) who was rejected during his first cycle. He was also only 20. A year later, at age 21 and will pretty much the same profile, he got accepted just about everywhere. For this reason, I think age makes a pretty big difference.

I'm only saying this so you don't take it to heart if you don't get in--it could be something as simple and uncontrolable as your age 🙂

 

[boulosp]

Your biggest hurdles will be your low GPA, low MCAT, and your age. Often people get in with either a low GPA OR a low MCAT score, not both. Look on this cycle as a warm-up practice cycle and plan on spending a year or two getting good grades and getting older. If you get in this cycle, great! If you don't, then at least you won't be too disappointed and you'll have something set up to do next year (maybe an SMP?).

I know a super-genius (4.0 GPA, really high MCAT, publication his freshman year, etc... totally unreal guy) who was rejected during his first cycle. He was also only 20. A year later, at age 21 and will pretty much the same profile, he got accepted just about everywhere. For this reason, I think age makes a pretty big difference.

I'm only saying this so you don't take it to heart if you don't get in--it could be something as simple and uncontrolable as your age 🙂

Thanks for the reply. I was unaware that age made that much of a difference. It was obvious that there was an uncomfortably overwhelming chance that I did not get accepted this cycle and have already begun some smp applications just in case but after looking at this I felt a little hope:
http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table25-mcatgpa-grid-hbn-3race.pdf

 

[mdbound1987]

Your biggest hurdles will be your low GPA, low MCAT, and your age. Often people get in with either a low GPA OR a low MCAT score, not both. Look on this cycle as a warm-up practice cycle and plan on spending a year or two getting good grades and getting older. If you get in this cycle, great! If you don't, then at least you won't be too disappointed and you'll have something set up to do next year (maybe an SMP?).

I know a super-genius (4.0 GPA, really high MCAT, publication his freshman year, etc... totally unreal guy) who was rejected during his first cycle. He was also only 20. A year later, at age 21 and will pretty much the same profile, he got accepted just about everywhere. For this reason, I think age makes a pretty big difference.

I'm only saying this so you don't take it to heart if you don't get in--it could be something as simple and uncontrolable as your age 🙂

I don't agree with this. It is true that it is tough to get accepted with both a low mcat and gpa. Your gpa is low, but considering you are a URM, your mcat is not low. I personally know a few URMs who have been accepted to multiple schools with around a 25 mcat. According to this chart you posted above, as a URM with your gpa and mcat, you have a 65% chance of being accepted. So you should be in good shape considering the rest of your application (ECs, community service, etc.) is on point. Good luck this cycle.

http://aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/table25-mcatgpa-grid-hbn-morerace.pdf

 

[LaFleur]

I think that age is sometimes used as a determining factor. I'm convinced that my brother didn't get in the first cycle he applied mainly due to his age. He had graduated college 1.5 yrs early and was doing research full time after graduation. Just saying it could happen.

But best of luck! You never know...you might get in. It's great to have a back up plan though.

🙂

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[boulosp]

I think that age is sometimes used as a determining factor. I'm convinced that my brother didn't get in the first cycle he applied mainly due to his age. He had graduated college 1.5 yrs early and was doing research full time after graduation. Just saying it could happen.

But best of luck! You never know...you might get in. It's great to have a back up plan though.

🙂

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Thanks for the insight!