WAMC: Retake classes or postbacc?

[mountainguy]

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Hello -
First time on here, but I'm shooting for some MD school and I have a pretty solid application besides my GPA.
Overall GPA: 3.3
sGPA: 3.1
MCAT: 513
I think some of my extracurricular are not too bad. I have 5 big publications (one in Cell) and 15 conference papers, besides that lots of research experience (basic, clinical, health care policy research). I'm a research technician at Stanford right now. I have other cute stuff from the research stuff like research grants/scholarships/patents and so forth. On the clinical side of things, I have lots of volunteering experience with and without patient contact plus lots of shadowing experience and so forth, will probably look to get some more patient contact through something like EMT.
I'm fairly sure that my GPA is going to be a fairly big red flag if not completely keep me out of MD/DO schools. Is it worth taking more classes at my undergrad or shelling out the money for a SMP?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Faha]

Where is your state of residence ? Are you URM ?

 

[mountainguy]

I am from the Midwest, 1 MD and 1 DO school in the state. I am not an URM

 

[Walter Raleigh]

What is your GPA trend like? Upward trend might give you a puncher's chance at MD schools, especially with the research record. Flat? DO schools might take you.

 

[Faha]

Apply to your state MD school and I suggest these MD schools:
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
Seton Hall
Drexel
Temple
New York Medical College
George Washington
You are competitive for many DO schools and I suggest these:
MU-COM
DMU-COM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
BCOM
UIWSOM
ACOM
ARCOM
NYIT-Arkansas
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
PCOM Georgia and South Georgia
LECOM (all schools)
CUSOM
VCOM (all 3 schools)

 

[mountainguy]

Apply to your state MD school and I suggest these MD schools:
Loyola
Rosalind Franklin
Medical College Wisconsin
TCU-UNT
NOVA MD
Seton Hall
Drexel
Temple
New York Medical College
George Washington
You are competitive for many DO schools and I suggest these:
MU-COM
DMU-COM
KCU-COM
ATSU-KCOM
BCOM
UIWSOM
ACOM
ARCOM
NYIT-Arkansas
UP-KYCOM
WVSOM
PCOM Georgia and South Georgia
LECOM (all schools)
CUSOM
VCOM (all 3 schools)

Thank you Walter and Faha -

That's encouraging it may not be necessary to fix the GPA the first go around and try my shot outright. I eluded to it previously, do you think its worth taking a few classes at my local school to improve my chances or my school list, or anything short of an intense SMP is not worth doing?
Thanks again!

 

[Faha]

Any courses you take in this coming year will not influence your chances in this cycle. The only reason to take them this coming year would be if you are unwilling to attend a DO school if accepted. Even if you do increase your GPA by 0.1 there is no guarantee of a MD acceptance.