What are my chances?

[PharMed2016]

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Hey everyone,

I haven't posted on this section of the forum yet to ask for what everyone thinks about my application to medical school chances of success are. I'll be graduating from pharmacy school in a little more than a year with a 3.9+ gGPA with either magna cum laude or summa cum laude.

Anyway, I have about a 3.35sGPA and 3.45cGPA for undergrad with a 31O on the MCAT. My mdapps profile will tell you about my ECs and stuff.

What's everyone's assessment and what are your recommendation for schools.

 

[Catalystik]

You didn't specifically mention shadowing. I know you have or will be rounding with docs in the ICU, inpatient, etc. But what is your plan for some formal office-based shadowing, OR, ER, or whatever, etc?

Is any portion of your pharmacy program considered to be undergrad (the transcript usually says which is which), and if so, could you incorporate those credits into your overall undergrad GPA? If you already did, then what was your GPA from the two-four years of colllege alone?

Also, could you give the year-by-year grade trend in undergrad?

(And if that is your name, please remove it from the Original Post to maintain your anonymity.)

 

[PharMed2016]

You didn't specifically mention shadowing. I know you have or will be rounding with docs in the ICU, inpatient, etc. But what is your plan for some formal office-based shadowing, OR, ER, or whatever, etc?

Is any portion of your pharmacy program considered to be undergrad (the transcript usually says which is which), and if so, could you incorporate those credits into your overall undergrad GPA? If you already did, then what was your GPA from the two-four years of colllege alone?

Also, could you give the year-by-year grade trend in undergrad?

(And if that is your name, please remove it from the Original Post to maintain your anonymity.)

Thanks, Catalystik. I hadn't realize that I accidentally signed with my real name instead of my screen name. Anyway, its corrected now. As for your first question - I'll start shadowing this upcoming Friday in the morning for four hours or so every week and more during the breaks. My shadowing will be in a small "medical center" really a clinic. I'll be following the doctor, his NP, and the medical residents that rotate through around. I think it'll be a great experience more so than when I first volunteer years back and shadowed at another hospital because I actually have a basis for framing everything that I see now. Also, I might even be able to contribute and use my education by making recommendations to others regarding the medication, lol.

As for my uGPA. It's comprised of my first three years at an undergrad institution not counting LECOM. Unfortunately for me, LECOM counts my pharmacy coursework as graduate. Otherwise, my GPA would be much higher. I actually asked the AAMCAS personnel regarding the GPA because my uGPA would benefit tremendously if they included my pharmacy courses.

As for my undergrad GPA trend. I ended with about a 2.95 first year, 3.15 (2 year- 1st semester), 3.35 (2 year -2nd semester), 3.5 (3rd year - 1st semester) and a 3.75 (3rd year -2nd semester). This all averaged to what I have posted above with 4.0 in summer courses that I took at other institutions. Currently, I have about a 3.95 at LECOM in the pharmacy program.

 

[PharMed2016]

Bump.

 

[Catalystik]

I think you'll be in great shape for DO med schools.

MD schools will be harder to predict, since so few of them regard grad level coursework, and there are too few PharmD to MD applicants to be able to predict whether an exception will reliably be made in your case. Quite possibly, with luck, your overwhelming success in your current program will be taken as excellent evidence that you''ll excel in med school. I'd certainly suggest you apply broadly to both types of schools.

I'd suggest you PM J DUB and MiniMoo, who both successfully did what you plan to do and ask them to post their perspectives on this thread. You'll find others in the Nontrad Forum in your shoes that you might consider Searching out.