Strange circumstances

[vylasaven]

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I got into Stanford from a community college where I had a 4.0 in all the basic science classes. Once I got here to Stanford, I experienced either a bipolar episode or side effects of antidepressants that resulted in one incomplete and one B in a computer science class. My GPA should be decent, and I have always tested very well (2320 SAT II), and I'm a nontraditional student.

GPA right now is 4.0 at the first school I went to and 3.4 at Stanford (guesstimation).

I have over 100 volunteer hours at a hospital where I was able to shadow ER doctors during my rounds and had a lot of patient contact (doling out blankets, wheeling people to their rooms).

I participated in a research-focused biomedical sciences NIH-funded Bridges to Biomedical Careers internship last year, 6 weeks long, learned various experiment design things.

I am 30 years old and have 2 years of school left before I get my BS in Biology.

Chances? Specifically interested in UNM, Denver's Anschutz campus, or UW.

Also, does the Stanford degree bump my chances?

 

[BigBlueBear]

Why those schools? They're really in-state friendly...does UNM even accept any OOS students?

Impossible to say without an MCAT. Also, what is an SAT II? If you're referring to the subject tests, aren't those out of 800? Sadly I don't think the MCAT correlates well with an SAT (but I might be wrong on that).

Last, undergraduate degree probably doesn't really matter, especially since you took all your prereqs at a CC.

 

[rubisco88]

I got into Stanford from a community college where I had a 4.0 in all the basic science classes. Once I got here to Stanford, I experienced either a bipolar episode or side effects of antidepressants that resulted in one incomplete and one B in a computer science class. My GPA should be decent, and I have always tested very well (2320 SAT II), and I'm a nontraditional student.

GPA right now is 4.0 at the first school I went to and 3.4 at Stanford (guesstimation).

I have over 100 volunteer hours at a hospital where I was able to shadow ER doctors during my rounds and had a lot of patient contact (doling out blankets, wheeling people to their rooms).

I participated in a research-focused biomedical sciences NIH-funded Bridges to Biomedical Careers internship last year, 6 weeks long, learned various experiment design things.

I am 30 years old and have 2 years of school left before I get my BS in Biology.

Chances? Specifically interested in UNM, Denver's Anschutz campus, or UW.

Also, does the Stanford degree bump my chances?

I think you have a good chance to get into med school (in general) if your overall gpa is about a 3.6/3.7 and you get an balanced MCAT of 28+. I think you still need to improve you ECs. Shadow a few doctors and get more clinical experience. Also, try to get some non-clinical community service experience. I wouldn't count on graduating from Stanford to give you a bump. To put it in perspective, I had a friend with a 3.3-3.5 cGPA and sGPA apply as a URM to 30ish schools and he didn't get in anywhere. I think many students apply and matriculate from Stanford. You need a decent GPA no matter where you come from.

I think you'd have a pretty good chance at UNM if you are URM. I think they take a significant amount of URMs and their program strives to recruit URMs. They have low matriculant stats as well. If you are not URM, it will probably be difficult to get in out of state.

 

[coolingglasses]

Graduating from Stanford might give you a bump at Stanford. What's your overall cGPA/sGPA stats?

UW is automatically a reach... they love IS/Pacific & Inland NW students. You might be able to swing it if you're from Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming maybe.