New Start?????

[OlderStudent]

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I wanted to get some feedback. I have an undergrad degree in Liberal Studies with about a 2.8 GPA. I went to about 6 different schools (mostly online plus CLEP tests to get this ) with repeats and withdrawals and repeats on my transcripts all over the place. Married at 18 and now I have 4 kids. My life was a mess and now I want to start over.

My plan is to start over and obtain an A.S. in Nursing and get in the healthcare field and while I am working Obtain a B.S. in Nursing. I will then take the needed classes and take the MCAT. This will give me about 3-4 years of healthcare experience plus I can stay there if I don't get into Med School. Since I will be re-doing a whole new degree will admissions be more forgiving of my previous undergrad experience? ( I graduated 2002) I want to be a doctor but I know I need to prove that I am a capable student. If I can do this with a new 3.6+ GPA with good MCATs do you think they will give me a chance or will they focus on the past.

What are your thoughts?

 

[NontradICUdoc]

Yes it is possible. Check out www.oldpremeds.com and read Dave's story on how he came back from a 1.2 GPA to become an anesthesiologist.

 

[Hardbody]

I wanted to get some feedback. I have an undergrad degree in Liberal Studies with about a 2.8 GPA. I went to about 6 different schools (mostly online plus CLEP tests to get this ) with repeats and withdrawals and repeats on my transcripts all over the place. Married at 18 and now I have 4 kids. My life was a mess and now I want to start over.

My plan is to start over and obtain an A.S. in Nursing and get in the healthcare field and while I am working Obtain a B.S. in Nursing. I will then take the needed classes and take the MCAT. This will give me about 3-4 years of healthcare experience plus I can stay there if I don't get into Med School. Since I will be re-doing a whole new degree will admissions be more forgiving of my previous undergrad experience? ( I graduated 2002) I want to be a doctor but I know I need to prove that I am a capable student. If I can do this with a new 3.6+ GPA with good MCATs do you think they will give me a chance or will they focus on the past.

What are your thoughts?

An A.S. in Nursing would have the effect of adcoms questioning your commitment to become a physician. I highly recommend that you do not go that route. In case you don't know, OSTEOPATHIC medical schools only use your LAST REPEAT in your GPA CALCULATION, therefore if you bombed a class twice, then aced it, only the aced class would count. Adcoms will still see that you bombed the class twice, but if you go back to school, take the prereqs and some additional classes (humanities and possibly some upper level bio) and earn a high GPA. It will be noticed. Retake any classes you have a C- or lower in and I think you will have a shot depending on your EC's and ability to do well on the MCAT.

 

[MDstudent101]

I wanted to get some feedback. I have an undergrad degree in Liberal Studies with about a 2.8 GPA. I went to about 6 different schools (mostly online plus CLEP tests to get this ) with repeats and withdrawals and repeats on my transcripts all over the place. Married at 18 and now I have 4 kids. My life was a mess and now I want to start over.

My plan is to start over and obtain an A.S. in Nursing and get in the healthcare field and while I am working Obtain a B.S. in Nursing. I will then take the needed classes and take the MCAT. This will give me about 3-4 years of healthcare experience plus I can stay there if I don't get into Med School. Since I will be re-doing a whole new degree will admissions be more forgiving of my previous undergrad experience? ( I graduated 2002) I want to be a doctor but I know I need to prove that I am a capable student. If I can do this with a new 3.6+ GPA with good MCATs do you think they will give me a chance or will they focus on the past.

What are your thoughts?

This is what I believe is the route (or atleast is what I would do).

DON'T get an A.S. in Nursing it will only raise question's at potential interviews as to why you want to become a Physician following by them asking you why not stay in Nursing and other dumb question's. What I would do is go back to college take all the nessecary Pre-Req's and ace them. Take over some classes that you might have failed or just did bad on, and then prepare for Mcat's. While at the same time you get Extracurricular Activities down pact as well as some Volunteering and Physician Shadowing. Then guess what? After you raise you're GPA and take the Mcat's get reasonable average score on it, and have some volunteering, and shadowing expiriences YOU can apply to MED SCHOOL! 😀
But this will not be easy, but I beleive it is better than completely disregarding your Liberal Art's degree and working from scratch to obtian a different one!!!!!!!! Which will take you 4 more unessecary years to complete, when this could take you I estimate about 2 years.

Good Luck

 

[vt hokie]

i had a 2.84 (AACOMAS = 3.1) as an undergrad. i completed a certificate program with just over a 3.0 and i am currently finishing my master's degree. i have a 4.0 in that program. but my overall gpa is just 3.3. i was still accepted. i think some schools even state that they focus on the last 90 credit hours. so just work hard and you can do it. i had actually given up on med school and started a career in the environmental field. it wasn't until a good friend of mine married an md who is a complete idiot (common sense wise, not intelligence) anyway, he went to the same undergrad school as i did and almost flunked out. he was still accepted into medical school after completing his masters.