What do you think......

Your improvement will be noticed, but so will your transfer to another school.

If I was looking at the grades and correlated them with your transfer, my first thought would be that the school you transfered to was an easier school, therefore allowing you to perform better in your classes.

You may need to be careful of this and be able to explain the real reason your grades went up. Maybe you were happier at this school or the courses were more interesting to you.

The GPA is still low and yes, you will need a very good MCAT along with other factors working in your favor.

Don't give up. Don't listen to people who tell you not to go for it. If this is truly your dream, you should do what it takes to make it come true. Just be aware that you will be in competition with a great number of applicants who did considerably better than you grade-wise.

Best of luck to you!



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Joshua Paul Hazelton, CNA, EMT-B
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University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (2002)
"D.O. Wannabe"

 

I think that you mean you have a 3.9 at your current school, not a 3.9 overall. Am I right?



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Hercules

But there is also a time for sleeping.
-Odysseus in the Odyssey 11.330-331

 

Adcoms will probably question why you didn't do so well at your first college, especially since you were taking fluffy general ed requirements, and not hardcore science classes. It may just simply be that you had a hard time adjusting to college, which is a big hurdle for some people. Maybe you weren't ready after high school to settle down and be a serious student. Maybe your high school didn't prepare you for college so you floundered a bit when you first started until you learned better study skills. Maybe, like someone else said, you didn't like your first school and did poorly. There are lots of reasons why college students do bad at first. Whatever the case, it's in the past now, and you have since proven yourself at your new college. Adcoms like to see a progression forward, and are more interested in your most recent grades, rather than the grades you got your first few semesters. I don't think you've totally ruined your chances at all. Since you have a 3.9 now, it sounds like you should be prepared for the MCAT, so as long as you do well, and get some clinical experience through volunteering or whatever, you should be a competitive applicant.

If your total GPA (including those 'bad' first two years) is down lower than say a 3.4, you might want to mention this grade discrepancy in your personal statement. From what I understand, some med schools have cut offs and might not give your application a lot of weight if your GPA is too low. So mentioning your improvement might help prevent your application from being ignored.