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This is a question directed towards anyone in an AdCom or with any experience with their procedures... I know each school is different but I'm super discouraged at the moment...
I went off to college from 2000-2005 and did basically nothing there. As a result, my GPA from my first school is a whopping 1.68 🙄 Surprisingly, I never got kicked out.
After a 3 year layoff, I went back to school and I'm pulling a near 3.8 cumulative, maybe a 3.6 math & science cumulative GPA with Ochem 2, physics 1 & 2, and Microbio yet to bet factored in. However, PHARMCAS has finished calculating my GPA and it's TERRIBLE -- 2.24 cumulative, 2.67 science/math... My only ray of hope is my Chem GPA's are solid ... 3.7 Organic (with OChem 2 yet to be taken) and 3.85 Inorganic. My bio is a 2.67, but I failed the same bio class TWICE at my old school, so I suppose that's not so bad given the two fails. My math is also not up to my standards -- 2.9, but again, I took one "pre-calc" math class at my old school and failed that too. Otherwise, I have straight A's in stats, pre-calc, and Calc 1 at my new school.
I am deathly afraid that my prospective schools (I applied to 10 because I knew my GPA would scream "DENY") will just sort by GPA and I'll never even make it to consideration. I have heard that most adcoms spend a few minutes looking at each application at most, and if you factor in reading the personal statement, I'm wondering if they even have the time look at individual transcripts aside from the PHARMCAS "transcript" at all in the short amount of time they give each application.
I feel my letters of recommendation are pretty strong even though I haven't read them - three from science professors and one from a pharmacist. I also feel pretty confident in my personal statement, in which I addressed my absolutely terrible grades from my first foray into college and how I've matured and basically have my head on straight now, but this GPA calculation is very discouraging.
I took the Oct. PCAT and feel I did reasonably well in it, I don't have my scores yet however, so I know that's no help at the moment. I know that having a strong PCAT score will improve my chances, but like I said, I'm very worried that this PHARMCAS cumulative GPA will automatically eliminate me from consideration...ugh! If I could time travel i'd go back and give myself a good smack in the face and kick in the butt!
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I went off to college from 2000-2005 and did basically nothing there. As a result, my GPA from my first school is a whopping 1.68 🙄 Surprisingly, I never got kicked out.
After a 3 year layoff, I went back to school and I'm pulling a near 3.8 cumulative, maybe a 3.6 math & science cumulative GPA with Ochem 2, physics 1 & 2, and Microbio yet to bet factored in. However, PHARMCAS has finished calculating my GPA and it's TERRIBLE -- 2.24 cumulative, 2.67 science/math... My only ray of hope is my Chem GPA's are solid ... 3.7 Organic (with OChem 2 yet to be taken) and 3.85 Inorganic. My bio is a 2.67, but I failed the same bio class TWICE at my old school, so I suppose that's not so bad given the two fails. My math is also not up to my standards -- 2.9, but again, I took one "pre-calc" math class at my old school and failed that too. Otherwise, I have straight A's in stats, pre-calc, and Calc 1 at my new school.
I am deathly afraid that my prospective schools (I applied to 10 because I knew my GPA would scream "DENY") will just sort by GPA and I'll never even make it to consideration. I have heard that most adcoms spend a few minutes looking at each application at most, and if you factor in reading the personal statement, I'm wondering if they even have the time look at individual transcripts aside from the PHARMCAS "transcript" at all in the short amount of time they give each application.
I feel my letters of recommendation are pretty strong even though I haven't read them - three from science professors and one from a pharmacist. I also feel pretty confident in my personal statement, in which I addressed my absolutely terrible grades from my first foray into college and how I've matured and basically have my head on straight now, but this GPA calculation is very discouraging.
I took the Oct. PCAT and feel I did reasonably well in it, I don't have my scores yet however, so I know that's no help at the moment. I know that having a strong PCAT score will improve my chances, but like I said, I'm very worried that this PHARMCAS cumulative GPA will automatically eliminate me from consideration...ugh! If I could time travel i'd go back and give myself a good smack in the face and kick in the butt!

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