Trying for med school, but not sure how to go about it

[lateoutofschool]

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So I've tried to look for a few thread similar to my story, but haven't found anything that really fits. In short: I'm both a career-changer AND a low GPA premed, and I'm not sure where to go from here.

I was pre-med in college (top 20 school), had a horrendous GPA. Graduated, went to an MPH and tried to take extra classes during that MPH time to make up for it, and did okay but for various reasons, decided this wasn't worth it to me anymore and dropped out to go work in finance instead. I've now been working for two years and have realized that I do indeed want to do medicine. What now?

Specifics: my GPA was a 2.8, my science was a bit worse.
A few of the major courses (half of OChem, and Bio) were taken at a different school. I never took biochem or any of the other courses outside of the 4 major requirements. I did do two quarters of OChem at my original school--one quarter was a C, and one was an F.
My MCAT was a 34 (old version).
I had a year and a half of research with no publications (though one acknowledgement), 300+ hours of volunteer work, some shadowing, etc.
All my subsequent work experience, although it's mostly in finance, tangentially or directly relates to healthcare in some way.

Basically, what truly brought me down was the horrid GPA that I just couldn't get myself to work hard enough to fix. Working 9-5 has helped introduce the discipline into my life that I'd need to be successful at school again, but I'm not sure how to go about ACTUALLY doing it.

So... what now? I've thought about post-baccs, but all want a minimum of a 3.0 and most want you to have taken very few pre-med courses. SMPs seem to be more of the same, and also wouldn't necessarily afford me the opportunity to retake/take the necessary courses.

 

[P0ke]

So I've tried to look for a few thread similar to my story, but haven't found anything that really fits. In short: I'm both a career-changer AND a low GPA premed, and I'm not sure where to go from here.

I was pre-med in college (top 20 school), had a horrendous GPA. Graduated, went to an MPH and tried to take extra classes during that MPH time to make up for it, and did okay but for various reasons, decided this wasn't worth it to me anymore and dropped out to go work in finance instead. I've now been working for two years and have realized that I do indeed want to do medicine. What now?

Specifics: my GPA was a 2.8, my science was a bit worse.
A few of the major courses (half of OChem, and Bio) were taken at a different school. I never took biochem or any of the other courses outside of the 4 major requirements. I did do two quarters of OChem at my original school--one quarter was a C, and one was an F.
My MCAT was a 34 (old version).
I had a year and a half of research with no publications (though one acknowledgement), 300+ hours of volunteer work, some shadowing, etc.
All my subsequent work experience, although it's mostly in finance, tangentially or directly relates to healthcare in some way.

Basically, what truly brought me down was the horrid GPA that I just couldn't get myself to work hard enough to fix. Working 9-5 has helped introduce the discipline into my life that I'd need to be successful at school again, but I'm not sure how to go about ACTUALLY doing it.

So... what now? I've thought about post-baccs, but all want a minimum of a 3.0 and most want you to have taken very few pre-med courses. SMPs seem to be more of the same, and also wouldn't necessarily afford me the opportunity to retake/take the necessary courses.

Why did you take the MCAT so prematurely? You got a 34, which is a great score, but it means diddly squat with that GPA. This seems to be a common theme amongst low GPA students. Only take it when you're ready to apply.

 

[efle]

DIY postbacc to get up over 3.0, retake MCAT and hopefully score similarly well again (~516), then apply DO + your state MD schools if you're from a state where that makes sense to do