One of the craziest acceptance stories I have heard

[TheAveragePreMed]

One of my former classmates whom I had O-chem 2 and biochemistry with recently started medical school a few weeks ago, but I recently finally was able to catch up with him and kinda get a feel for what he went through. He did not pass Orgo 1 until his 4th time he took it but aced Orgo 2 and Biochem/Cell Bio. His overall undergrad GPA was a 2.6 so he enrolled into a post bacc which he received a 4.0 in. He then took the MCAT and received a 506 and enrolled into a SMP with linkage and recently based on his performance matriculated to a DO program, also since he did really well in the SMP he started 2nd year. Moral of the story, if you want it bad enough go get it but like he emphasized with me... he had to change EVERYTHING about his study habits after his repeated failures in undergrad.

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[RNthenDoc]

A post bac and an SMP to get into a school... Now that is some dedication!

 

[Goro]

One of my former classmates whom I had O-chem 2 and biochemistry with recently started medical school a few weeks ago, but I recently finally was able to catch up with him and kinda get a feel for what he went through. He did not pass Orgo 1 until his 4th time he took it but aced Orgo 2 and Biochem/Cell Bio. His overall undergrad GPA was a 2.6 so he enrolled into a post bacc which he received a 4.0 in. He then took the MCAT and received a 506 and enrolled into a SMP with linkage and recently based on his performance matriculated to a DO program, also since he did really well in the SMP he started 2nd year. Moral of the story, if you want it bad enough go get it but like he emphasized with me... he had to change EVERYTHING about his study habits after his repeated failures in undergrad.

It's not that crazy. Some people are simply unready to go to college at age 18. College has ruined many a good truck driver.

The whole justification about special Master's programs is that they demonstrate to medical schools that the you of now is not the you of then.

 

[Goro]

A post bac and an SMP to get into a school... Now that is some dedication!

This is also common. The postbac might get a GPA up to the level to get someone into the SMP, and also prepare for MCAT

 

[TheAveragePreMed]

It's not that crazy. Some people are simply unready to go to college at age 18. College has ruined many a good truck driver.

The whole justification about special Master's programs is that they demonstrate to medical schools that the you of now is not the you of then.

Agreed 100% a lot of good SMP linkages out there which gives students good redeemable opportunities to get into the medical school the masters program is affiliated with.

 

[TheAveragePreMed]

A post bac and an SMP to get into a school... Now that is some dedication!

Paired with an upward trend with the latter of his sciences classes in undergrad, this dude did a complete 180 with his life.