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- 3.4 cumulative GPA, 3.4 science GPA (strong upward trend w/ mostly A's and B's freshman year; As, a lot of Bs, 3 C+ during sophomore year--my worst year; mostly As, 3 Bs, one C junior year (anomaly--hard, miscellaneous class about freshwater plant life that I regret taking); straight A's senior year in mainly upper division bio courses)
- 514 MCAT
- Human Biology major at UC Irvine
- CA state resident
- 200+ hours of hospital volunteering
- 50+ hours physician shadowing
- 1 Leadership position (president of a local/global community service chapter on campus)
- 1.5 years of research in a cancer epigenetics lab (also did the undergraduate research program where I presented research at a symposium)
- 5 solid letters of rec (human bio professor, philosophy professor, research PI, physician I shadowed, child life volunteer advisor)
~Also planning on working as a medical scribe in the summer during my gap year, but I would imagine that would go into secondary applications if I receive any. Any feedback would be appreciated, I'm pretty upset about my low GPA stats and I am very worried that it will hold me back from getting any acceptances at all. My first two years really dragged me down, i was unfortunately an unmotivated and careless student at the time with many distractions.
I'm not interested in top schools as those are completely unrealistic for me--do I have a shot at any DO schools, or maybe mid-tier or low-tier MDs?
- 514 MCAT
- Human Biology major at UC Irvine
- CA state resident
- 200+ hours of hospital volunteering
- 50+ hours physician shadowing
- 1 Leadership position (president of a local/global community service chapter on campus)
- 1.5 years of research in a cancer epigenetics lab (also did the undergraduate research program where I presented research at a symposium)
- 5 solid letters of rec (human bio professor, philosophy professor, research PI, physician I shadowed, child life volunteer advisor)
~Also planning on working as a medical scribe in the summer during my gap year, but I would imagine that would go into secondary applications if I receive any. Any feedback would be appreciated, I'm pretty upset about my low GPA stats and I am very worried that it will hold me back from getting any acceptances at all. My first two years really dragged me down, i was unfortunately an unmotivated and careless student at the time with many distractions.
I'm not interested in top schools as those are completely unrealistic for me--do I have a shot at any DO schools, or maybe mid-tier or low-tier MDs?