What does upward trend mean?

[Sammy1024]

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When it says upward trend, is it your overall gpa trend or your yearly gpa trend?

Like I went from 2.0 my freshman year to a 3.15 by my senior year, BUT my gpa for each year would be like something like 2.0, 3.7, 3.2, 3.0 (not quite sure on the last two, but something like that).

Does that mean I have a downward trend because of the decreasing yearly gpa, or an upward trend because every year my gpa increased?

(Roughly 2.0, 2.6, 3.1, 3.15)

 

[woltej1]

it means your year by year, main reason is to look if your gpa drops appreciably when taking high tier courses.

 

[Sammy1024]

So that means that I have a downward trend right?

I tried asking this on the post-bacc forum, but taking the post-bacc would only raise my gpa maybe .2 so then does that mean i'll still get screened out if I can't get my gpa up to at least a 3.2?

 

[woltej1]

Yes, you have a downward trend. You don't stand a chance at MD schools unless you're an underrepresented minority or have some good EC. I'd look into DO if I were you, and even then the GPA is average.

 

[Sammy1024]

I was planning on doing a post-bacc and applying for MD.

 

[masaraksh]

From my understanding it is yearly GPA, not running cumulative GPA, that is used in this context. In which case you don't have an upward trend - you go up from freshman to sophomore year but then go down each year.

I think with this GPA alone, MD admissions would be challenging.

 

[lmn]

Ditto what everyone said above, I don't know a ton about post-bac's but I don't know how a 1 or 2 year program (master's maybe) with a great gpa performance, along with extra letters of rec and possibly research wouldn't help possibly turn around your application. If you could also kill the mcat, I think enough time would have passed that you could show a new you, and hopefully be able to explain the college performance well enough.

 

[Sammy1024]

I know of some people with a 2.9 and then they did a post bacc and got a 4.0 in the program. They're now in MD programs, but I was just wondering how that actually ended up working.

 

[Boolean]

I know of some people with a 2.9 and then they did a post bacc and got a 4.0 in the program. They're now in MD programs, but I was just wondering how that actually ended up working.

Apply broadly / be URM / amazing EC's / research / amazing LOR

 

[Pacna]

This has come up before, but I would hate for you to waste your time on a post-bacc if you're going to perform the same as your UG career. I hope it's a path you want to do as a backup to medicine, because chances are poor that you will significantly turn yourself around and 4.0 the remainder of your academic career. People don't typically behave that way.