DO Should I retake these classes for a better chance?

[PerseveranceJoe]

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My GPA is 3.353 right now. I want to be a DO (meaning, if given the choice between MD or DO, I would choose DO). I have 3 Cs: C+ in Tech English, C in Writing and Rhetorics, and C+ in Organic Chemistry 2. Should I retake them? My ECs are great.

 

[Catalystik]

My GPA is 3.353 right now. I want to be a DO (meaning, if given the choice between MD or DO, I would choose DO). I have 3 Cs: C+ in Tech English, C in Writing and Rhetorics, and C+ in Organic Chemistry 2. Should I retake them? My ECs are great.

It would help to know your sGPA.

 

[PerseveranceJoe]

3.2 sGPA

 

[Catalystik]

3.2 sGPA

Technically, you don't have to retake any of those classes to apply through AACOMAS, but if your stats were higher through retaking Ochem II (at a minimum) and maybe some original upper-level science classes +/- Biochem, you'd have more schools to choose among that aren't newly opened. In light of your "great ECs," if you have a decent MCAT score, chances are you'd get an acceptance somewhere as you are. If you're aiming for a more-selective, better known school, then get in some GPA repair.

 

[PerseveranceJoe]

Thanks for the detailed reply! I can't wait to prepare for the MCAT and destroy it.