Thinking about going to med school- Few quick questions

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I'm in my last year of college, ill be graduating with a BS in Physics, a BS in Biochemistry, a minor in Math, and a minor in Chemistry.
I'm just wondering how much of a chance I have to get into med-school. All my friends that are Bio-Majors have GPA's in the 3.9-4.0 range, but I only have a gpa of 3.5ish. This is mainly because I generally took 6 courses a term and it killed my grades. I never really took any lower level courses to raise my gpa either, I put all my energy into taking upper level science courses to get more degrees.
Anyways the med schools I'm looking to get into all have average gpa's of 3.7+, so will they even give me a chance? Do they look at the courses you take to see if you have a bloated gpa by taking a bunch of easy A courses? Because I know all my friends would take like 1 or 2 upper level courses a term and the rest would be easy A courses to raise their gpa. But I never did that. I keep hearing that unless you have a 3.7+ gpa they won’t even look at your application.

I did 2 summer REU programs in medical physics, 2 years of research during the school year at my university. I was the president of the society of physics students for 2 years at my university. I also tutored math for 3 years at the math center, chemistry for 2 years at the chem center, and physics for 2 years at the physics center. But I only have 1 year of volunteer work at a hospital. Is that going to hurt my application?

I haven’t taken the MCAT yet. But I assume I will need to get a high score to counter my gpa.


I am hoping to get into Ann Arbor med school

Thanks
 
I am hoping to get into Ann Arbor med school

Are you referring to the University of Michigan?

If so, I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

But if you ace the MCAT, you still might get into Wayne State.
 
I'm in my last year of college, ill be graduating with a BS in Physics, a BS in Biochemistry, a minor in Math, and a minor in Chemistry.
I'm just wondering how much of a chance I have to get into med-school. All my friends that are Bio-Majors have GPA's in the 3.9-4.0 range, but I only have a gpa of 3.5ish. This is mainly because I generally took 6 courses a term and it killed my grades. I never really took any lower level courses to raise my gpa either, I put all my energy into taking upper level science courses to get more degrees.
Anyways the med schools I'm looking to get into all have average gpa's of 3.7+, so will they even give me a chance? Do they look at the courses you take to see if you have a bloated gpa by taking a bunch of easy A courses? Because I know all my friends would take like 1 or 2 upper level courses a term and the rest would be easy A courses to raise their gpa. But I never did that. I keep hearing that unless you have a 3.7+ gpa they won’t even look at your application.

I did 2 summer REU programs in medical physics, 2 years of research during the school year at my university. I was the president of the society of physics students for 2 years at my university. I also tutored math for 3 years at the math center, chemistry for 2 years at the chem center, and physics for 2 years at the physics center. But I only have 1 year of volunteer work at a hospital. Is that going to hurt my application?

I haven’t taken the MCAT yet. But I assume I will need to get a high score to counter my gpa.


I am hoping to get into Ann Arbor med school

Thanks

There's an excellent sticky on the subject at the top of this page.
 
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