What are my chances for an ED Program?

[Tigers4Life]

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Hi y'all!

I am hoping someone can help me out! I am currently a junior biology major with a 3.5 GPA who transferred as freshman carry a 3.9 GPA from my old school. I have one C on my transcript from calc I that I took during the summer where I was attending two different colleges, taking ten credit hours and working part time.

Currently I am looking at a C in animal physiology, but I want to apply in mid summer to Rutgers ED program, as well as a multitude of other schools later in the summer/fall. If I decided to take a gap year I am going to move my MCAT date from this June to later in the summer like sometime in July. I am trying to decide on a number of things listed here:

• Should I take a W in this class instead of a C?
• If I take the W, should I not apply this year and take a gap year?
• What are my chances the way everything looks now?

 

[Mansamusa]

I thought you were talking about ED like an emergency department volunteer program and I was like, "whoa, things really are getting absurdly competitive." Haha

But, yeah, listen to the above advice

 

[ski89]

Agree with gonnif, Ill add that when schools see a W they will most likely think that you were headed for a D or F - unless your reason for taking a W is for extenuating circumstances (serious medical problems for example).

As for more general advise about taking a gap year, we are going to need much more info about your application.. LORs, research, volunteering, clinical exp, etc..

 

[Tigers4Life]

Well what about applying in this regular cycle?

I've volunteered 100 hours+ at my university's hospital as well as volunteering once a week to deliver food from dining halls to halfway houses and homeless shelters. I have about 50 hours of shadowing and interned last summer at UCLA Health in their pathology department. I am the vice president of my school's robotics club and the Model UN team. I am also social chair for my chemical fraternity, Alpha Chi Sigma and have done research for about two years related to global warming and prairie species. I'm minoring in chemistry and religious studies, but I don't think that really matters.

I have letters from:

My lab PI
My orgo 1 professor
My developmental psych professor
One of the physicians I shadowed
My inorganic professor

 

[Mansamusa]

Well what about applying in this regular cycle?

Take the C. MCAT is a huge component of the app, so it's hard to say without that. And it also depends on other factors like ECs. Your gpa isn't fantastic, but won't keep you out of med school.
And what is your science gpa?

 

[Tigers4Life]

My science GPA is a 3.3 🙁