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Hi all! Just looking for some advice and a possible school list for a reinventor/career changer. Was also wondering if taking another year and retaking the MCAT for a higher score would be worth it for allopathic schools, or if I even have a shot at allopathic schools with my uGPA? Thanks in advance for the much appreciated advice 😊
Poor grades in undergrad were due to losing my parents and trying to cope with that while being too stubborn to drop out of school. I also suffered a physical injury, and failed out of most of my performance based classes for a year while recovering from the injury, which is something I plan on explaining in my PS. I've had professors tell me to go back and take more undergrad classes to boost my uGPA, but I'm at almost 300 undergrad credit hours from two majors, so my uGPA isn’t going much farther up. It took two years of all B+’s and A’s to barely budge my cGPA up to 3.0 just so I wouldn’t be screened out. SMP was done through a medical school with med school faculty teaching first year med school curriculum.
- cGPA: 3.0 (bad grades are pretty much all from my fine arts degree), sGPA: 3.2, DIY Postbacc GPA: 3.7 for the last year, SMP GPA: 3.9
- MCAT: 509 (127/130/126/126)
- GA resident for what will be coming up on 3 years. Born and raised in a different state with a VERY rural upbringing (my hometown was less than 100 people and I lived an hour from the nearest grocery store), but all my remaining family is here in Georgia.
- ORM, low socioeconomic and rural background.
- Undergrad in a small state school outside of Georgia in the state I was raised in. Bachelor’s was in a performance based fine arts degree.
- 10,000+ hours of rural clinical experience working full time for several gap years, 200+ clinical volunteer hours running COVID tests and helping with blood drives (this will go up though since I’m still currently volunteering). 100+ hours of non-clinical volunteering.
- 100 hours of research experience from SMP (unpublished).
- 100 hours of shadowing.
- Several years working fine arts jobs in my previous field before changing careers, thousands of hours of fine arts EC's
- Several honors and awards from my fine arts background.
- I should note that I’ve had several adcom members from my SMP tell me not to bother applying to in-state MD schools for Georgia since they prefer people with "roots" in the state and I’ve only lived here and had legal residence in GA for 3 years; I was told that I should focus on DO schools in Georgia instead like PCOM or apply to OOS friendly schools elsewhere, which really messed up my school list 😅. Wife was born and raised in Georgia though, and all my parent’s family are from here (hence why I moved back after my parents passed away).
Poor grades in undergrad were due to losing my parents and trying to cope with that while being too stubborn to drop out of school. I also suffered a physical injury, and failed out of most of my performance based classes for a year while recovering from the injury, which is something I plan on explaining in my PS. I've had professors tell me to go back and take more undergrad classes to boost my uGPA, but I'm at almost 300 undergrad credit hours from two majors, so my uGPA isn’t going much farther up. It took two years of all B+’s and A’s to barely budge my cGPA up to 3.0 just so I wouldn’t be screened out. SMP was done through a medical school with med school faculty teaching first year med school curriculum.
