WAMC: cGPA 3.1, 509 MCAT, 28M

[lowgparuinedme]

I understand that my GPA is very low. I want to see what my realistic odds are at medical school. I did very poorly in my first 3 years in undergrad, but finished off senior year with almost straight A's, received straight A's in my masters program, and have about 15 credits of A's in community college I have taken while working. I feel like I can improve my MCAT score a lot if I dedicate more time studying. Is med school a pipe dream?

1. cGPA, sGPA
cGPA: 3.1, 3.01

2. MCAT score and breakdown
MCAT: 509 (127/127/128/127)

3. State of residence
California

4. Ethnicity
White

5. Undergrad institution & graduate institution
Top university in Canada (BSc)
Top university in Canada (MSc)

6. Clinical employment
-None

7. Research experience/productivity
-Three publications in cancer cell biology, one of them is a first-author publication in a good journal
-3 years work experience as a R&D scientist at a Fortune 500
-200 hours in clinical research
->10 given talks at good conferences + poster presentations

8. Shadowing experience
-8 hours internal medicine

9. Non-clinical volunteering
-200 hours in general support administration at a hospital.
-100 hours in volunteering at a non-profit for URM students

10. Other extracurricular activities
-Member of chess club
-Yoga practice
-Teaching assistant for a biomedical engineering course (1 term)
-Committee member at university student association
-A lot of science outreach for elementary/high school age children

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[Faha]

Which URM community are you from ? If Hispanic, are you fluent in Spanish ?
You have several deficiencies that you will need to correct before you apply next June. You should accumulate another 40 hours of in person physician shadowing. You also have no clinical volunteering or employment and should accumulate 200+ hours with patient contact..

 

[lowgparuinedme]

Which URM community are you from ? If Hispanic, are you fluent in Spanish ?
You have several deficiencies that you will need to correct before you apply next June. You should accumulate another 40 hours of in person physician shadowing. You also have no clinical volunteering or employment and should accumulate 200+ hours with patient contact..

Thank you for your response and advice. I will look into adding this experience.
I have corrected the URM and just checked that it only applies to Hispanic/AA/Native American. While I don't agree, I think for the purposes of admission I would be lumped into White.

 

[Faha]

You could receive interviews at DO schools with your stats and I suggest these:
WESTERN
TUCOM-CA
TUNCOM
AZCOM
ATSU (both schools)
KCU-COM
UIWSOM
WCU-COM
ACOM
NYIT-AR
LMU-DCOM
WVSOM
UP-KYCOM
LECOM (all schools)
PCOM (all schools)
Touro-Montana
Noorda-COM