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You have an uphill battle ahead of you, especially if you're a Cali resident. Getting that GPA up and a good MCAT score are priorities. Make sure you get some good letters lined up so you don't have to scramble
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Moving to "What are my chances?"
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I've been hearing alot about how bad it is to be a CA resident, as one, I was just wondering, just how bad is it?
For example, 3.5/30, Texas resident = ? CA resident?
Like, if someone was 3.5/30 Texas resident, approximately how much of a difference would that make if they were a CA resident applying to Texas schools?
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Nope. You can't go back at this point and take them at a community college. If you're attending UCLA, you need to get them done there or else it'll seem like you were trying to get an easy break. It'll only backfire on you later. If your situation were different (like you graduated already or haven't transferred), you might get away with CC.
Be prepared to apply Osteopathic, especially if you didn't count the "D" into your GPA and only the retake grade. California is not going to be receptive to you (based on your specific numbers) unless you're URM.
Be prepared to apply Osteopathic, especially if you didn't count the "D" into your GPA and only the retake grade. California is not going to be receptive to you (based on your specific numbers) unless you're URM.
Well for one thing, I don't think 3.5/30 will get you into ANY CA school unless you were a minority or did something outstanding in your app. But even then no guarantees.
And if you were 3.5/30 CA resident I don't think any Texas school would take you.....aren't Texas schools really IS heavy?
I'm not an expert on this (despite being a CA resident) so feel free to add more or correct me if something is missing or wrong.
I'm a Texas resident myself. I want to have at least a 3.6GPA by the time I apply. I haven't spoken to a health care adviser at my university, however a normal adviser told that a 3.5GPA is where it starts to bottom out; anything lower and getting accepted is tough. Even if people get in with lower GPA's, if you really want to be competitive and on the safe side, then a 3.5GPA would be just about the minimum you should bring to the table. And with a 3.5GPA, you should also have a stellar MCAT and impressive EC's.
Well back to the CA resident issue is that CA churns out the most premedical students and all of the CA med schools (UCs + private ones) have high admission standards and receive a larege volume of applications. So being "in-state" applicant for a UC med school is hardly an advantage because there are probably 10K more CA students like me also applying for med schools. I believe this has been discussed before if we use the search fxn......
So in other words, being a CA resident, a "backup" state school does not exist. That and coupled with being OOS everywhere else = one giant crapshoot, epic lulz.
So in other words, being a CA resident, a "backup" state school does not exist. That and coupled with being OOS everywhere else = one giant crapshoot, epic lulz.
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You maybe can try to add some shadowing, at least 50 hours to your activites. Also, how many hours of clinical experience at the hospital is there? You want this to be around 100-200 hours. Score well on the MCAT, and I also agree with the Cali sentiment - it is more competitive than the grid says, since Cali does not include any "safety" schools (except maybe Loma Linda).
