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[NCaggie]

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Hey everyone,
I have a friend who wants to go to medical school and I have a few questions. Her GPA is about a 2.4 and bio GPA is about a 3.2. She has lots of community service and extra-carricular stuff to put on the application. She has not taken the MCAT yet and she will graduate in December with a BS in Biology. What are the chance on getting into medical school. I know that of course, the better the GPA, the better the chances, but what advice do you all have? She is very intellegent, and wants to go into neurology or something like that. Anyway, how can she better improve her application. ( I went through the Veterinary medical application process, but I know there are some differences in what the programs look at so I want some info from you guys.) Also, is it true that if you dont get in on the first time, that if you re-apply, it will look bad on you? Should she look into other areas of medicine, or go into a masters program? I am trying to encourage her to not give up on her dreams. Please give me as much information as you can. It would greatly help out. Thank you in advance.

 

[ShyRem]

How about a post-bac program?

 

[atrovariousg]

but she'll need a 25 probably a 27 to get into a DO school and she'll need to be over 29 to get into a MD, and that's if she has a state school that she is a res of. Also she'll need to plan on applying 2 or 3 times and doing something (retaking classes or mcat) each time to improve her file

 

[dr.z]

She needs to take the MCAT and see how she performs. If she can do well, she will be able to make up for her GPA.

 

[happydays]

With her GPA, she'll need about 38+ on the MCAT. Good luck!

 

[2tall]

Hey everyone,
I have a friend who wants to go to medical school and I have a few questions. Her GPA is about a 2.4 and bio GPA is about a 3.2. She has lots of community service and extra-carricular stuff to put on the application. She has not taken the MCAT yet and she will graduate in December with a BS in Biology.

What's up with the discrepancy between her major (biology) and the rest of her coursework? That looks very strange. Did she change her major midway through undergrad?

Is her science GPA (bio, chem, phys, math) above a 3.0?

 

[toofache32]

Her GPA is about a 2.4....She is very intellegent, and wants to go into neurology or something like that.

These 2 statments are mutually exclusive. It just doesn't add up.

The world still needs ditch-diggers.

 

[IkeBoy18]

These 2 statments are mutually exclusive. It just doesn't add up.

The world still needs ditch-diggers.

dang that was pretty harsh..some people just have a harder time starting off..and sometimes surprass the people who used to be ahead

 

[toofache32]

dang that was pretty harsh..some people just have a harder time starting off..and sometimes surprass the people who used to be ahead

Sorry, you're right. It was a line from Caddy Shack.

 

[jtorres]

Sorry, you're right. It was a line from Caddy Shack.

alright noonan. not funny! 🙂

 

[riceman04]

Hey everyone,
I have a friend who wants to go to medical school and I have a few questions. Her GPA is about a 2.4 and bio GPA is about a 3.2. She has lots of community service and extra-carricular stuff to put on the application. She has not taken the MCAT yet and she will graduate in December with a BS in Biology. What are the chance on getting into medical school. I know that of course, the better the GPA, the better the chances, but what advice do you all have? She is very intellegent, and wants to go into neurology or something like that. Anyway, how can she better improve her application. ( I went through the Veterinary medical application process, but I know there are some differences in what the programs look at so I want some info from you guys.) Also, is it true that if you dont get in on the first time, that if you re-apply, it will look bad on you? Should she look into other areas of medicine, or go into a masters program? I am trying to encourage her to not give up on her dreams. Please give me as much information as you can. It would greatly help out. Thank you in advance.

IF YOUR FRIEND REALLY WANTS TO GO INTO MEDICINE, DONT GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS. Your friend should consider re-taking courses where she earned lower than a B (more than one at a time if possible) in a post-bacc program (of just post bachelors studies...no formal post bacc program). If she does well in those clases and excels on the MCAT then she will have a shot (assuming that she has always been active in EC's etc...). My friend applied to med schools last year and was in a similar situation after doing her undergrad at Stanford. After graduating, she moved back to LA and took classes at UCLA (all science). Though her overall GPA was still in what would be considered the "low gpa range" she still was accepted into Emory. She did not even turn her primaries in until the last possible day (right at the deadline of 5:00pm EST). Oh and she got a total of 4 interviews out of the 20+ apps.

Tell your friend to focus on the future and to plan to perform well so that he/she can prove her capabilities.
🙂
Stay positive...Straighten Up and Fly Right! 🙂

 

[PhDtoDO]

I agree...I think she needs to postpone her graduation(probably cheaper in the long run) and retake the science classes or bad grade classes that are keeping her GPA below a 3.0

It's funny how one F or a couple of Ds will totally drag your GPA into the ground...I'm thinking that might be the case here.

I also had a friend who was hospitallized 3 weeks before the end of a semester...very scary and was basically sedated until after finals. She spent the summer recovering and her parents are polish immigrants so when she went back she found out that they'll simply flunked her in all those classes and the school said it was too late to take or finish them as incompletes. She did retake them and besides this one semester at the UofChicago...she had almost straight As...one of the smartest people I knew and her GPA was a 2.6 or something like that because of this!

SCARY! She did eventually get into medical school but this screwed her GPA and she had to deal with it....but she went back to poland to go to medical school and I don't think that's an option here.


Retake those deadweight classes...then do a postbac especially if your school won't take out the old grades from the retaken classes (depends on the school)

Take an MCAT prep course and get a 30! Then she'll be in the game...and consider DOs if only as a backup.

-AND NEVER GIVE UP!

-s