I have recently been considering medical school and am not too far into the process, but I was wondering if this forum could help me clear a few things up:
uGPA-3.03 (no special story just very immature/unmotivated)
gradGPA~3.8
(neither school anything special but bms dept at grad school pretty solid for a state school)
To help repair my GPA I got my master's in biomolecular science. It was about 45 credits and included courses such as embryology, comparative anatomy and phys, epigenetics and biomolecular science. I did well on my GREs, 320+ combined, so if I study for about a year I hope to do at least half-way decent on the MCAT. My master's wasn't technically an SMP (so one might be needed) but I also don't want to take time and money retaking the same courses in an SMP or post bacc. I'm so frustrated, I feel like my undergrad GPA is constantly holding me back.
I know gpa is not the only factor med schools look at and I have had a steady upward trend. I have a few hundred hrs volunteer experience (non-clinical), have done clerical work (paid) at a urologists office for 3yrs, over 1300hrs research at internship at ivy league school, 1 publication soon and masters thesis.
uGPA-3.03 (no special story just very immature/unmotivated)
gradGPA~3.8
(neither school anything special but bms dept at grad school pretty solid for a state school)
To help repair my GPA I got my master's in biomolecular science. It was about 45 credits and included courses such as embryology, comparative anatomy and phys, epigenetics and biomolecular science. I did well on my GREs, 320+ combined, so if I study for about a year I hope to do at least half-way decent on the MCAT. My master's wasn't technically an SMP (so one might be needed) but I also don't want to take time and money retaking the same courses in an SMP or post bacc. I'm so frustrated, I feel like my undergrad GPA is constantly holding me back.
I know gpa is not the only factor med schools look at and I have had a steady upward trend. I have a few hundred hrs volunteer experience (non-clinical), have done clerical work (paid) at a urologists office for 3yrs, over 1300hrs research at internship at ivy league school, 1 publication soon and masters thesis.