Nontraditional premed and needs some advice

[kongkongkong]

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Hello,

So I am currently an occupational therapist and considering changing my career to become a physician. I am 32 years old, married, and currently working full time at inpatient hospital and do homehealth (aprox 60-70 hours a week with work)

My undergrad degree is in BS health science. cGPA 3.1 and I am not sure about my sGPA, but when I put my transcripts from undergraduate and community college to chat GPA (told to calculate based on AAMC gpa calculation) I got 2.7... I had multiple retakes for science courses. I was lucky enough to get accept to OTD school. My doctoral occupational therapy degree GPA is 3.6 (but has anatomy, neoursicnce, components). Not competitive enough only shows slight increase trend.

Clinical work 4000hours+
research hours (not sure how to calculate) but did IRB for my doctorate occupational therapy.

My science courses are like more than 10 years old.

while in full time work, I am taking Ochem (never took Ochem) at local community college. I want to take more courses but due to schedule conflict I was considering online courses with labs. I am trying to do DIY post bacc.

I want to apply DO and MD schools, and aware they dont like online classes. I read some threads and some say they do and some say they don't. Schools that do accept was due to COVID and now we are not in pandemic, i am not sure if the schools will accept them.

My plans is to apply DO or MD schools in 2027 May.

2025 Sept- Dec Ochem at CC

Jan 2026-feb 2026 microbiology with lab online from SCUHS (online, 5 week course)

feb 2026-May 2026 Ochem 2 at CC

May 2026-June 2026 Bio chem online SCUHS online (online, 5 week course)

June- August MCAT all in

Sept 4th Mcat day

Sept to Dec phyisc 1 -community college (got B- and want to increase my gpa before apply

Dec-Jan maybe genetic bio or cellular bio online (5week course or 8 week course),

would this be enough credit for my DIY even to apply

thank you for reading my post.

 

[HuskyMD Emeritus]

I would try for more upper division courses in a 4 year university for your post bacc.
If I reviewed your application and noted the low UG GPA and see all your post bacc classes (some of which are also prerequisites) done at a CC and on line, I will want to see more proof that you can handle the academic rigors of medical school. I understand the need to work full time, support family but the application process is very competitive.
Hope things will work out for you, good luck!