sunnydays365
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Hello,
So, I have a Master's in Biomedical Science, even though I graduated from my program with a 2.98 GPA. This is because my program director forgot to add a course to our schedule, so the school was lenient in giving me a degree, despite my GPA being lower than the 3.0 cutoff. The other thing about my program too was that our GPA was based heavily on the basic science courses we took with first-year medical students, where we received a letter grade based on the medical school curriculum, and the other courses we took that were solely for our SMP program were on a Pass/Fail scale.
As a re-applicant, it worries me when I see other premeds with post-bac GPAs in the high 3s. I want to explain these things to medical schools, but I hesitate because I do not want to sound bitter or like I am making excuses. I also do not know the curriculum for other SMP programs as to whether they heavily include medical school level science courses like mine. Is anyone able to give me some advice on whether it would be okay to tell a school that these are the reasons for my low post-bac GPA?
Many thanks in advance!
So, I have a Master's in Biomedical Science, even though I graduated from my program with a 2.98 GPA. This is because my program director forgot to add a course to our schedule, so the school was lenient in giving me a degree, despite my GPA being lower than the 3.0 cutoff. The other thing about my program too was that our GPA was based heavily on the basic science courses we took with first-year medical students, where we received a letter grade based on the medical school curriculum, and the other courses we took that were solely for our SMP program were on a Pass/Fail scale.
As a re-applicant, it worries me when I see other premeds with post-bac GPAs in the high 3s. I want to explain these things to medical schools, but I hesitate because I do not want to sound bitter or like I am making excuses. I also do not know the curriculum for other SMP programs as to whether they heavily include medical school level science courses like mine. Is anyone able to give me some advice on whether it would be okay to tell a school that these are the reasons for my low post-bac GPA?
Many thanks in advance!