Medical What SMP programs will look past my failures?

[Goro]

Hello so my story is I guess the typical low gpa student that has turned his life around relatively, so in my late teens got kicked out of my first college with a 1.77 gpa and 60 credits attempted with roughly 54 awarded due to F (oldest child family had issues). I took a year off college all together and came back to a good semester 3.8 at a private college then transferred to a state college. I am currently sitting with a 3.1 with 30 credits attempted and awarded, including this semester and next semester I can get another 30 credits till graduation and boost my current college gpa to a 3.5 ish. The issue I face is even with straight A my cumulative gpa will take forever to get to a 3.0 due to the 1.77 gpa from the previous college. I like my odds of doing good in a SMP I rather waste $50k and a year than 2-3 years taking undergrad courses in hopes of getting a 3.0. My question is what SMP programs will take me and my sub 3.0 gpa, I score 510-515 in mock MCAT and my “new” prerequisite gpa is 3.5. Thanks in advance.

Mine would. Do your research. These programs are a dime a dozen.

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[tantacles]

Many programs would. however, keep in mind that if your performance isn't stellar, your chances of admission are shot.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Ya SMP are all or nothing. You do poorly and your chances at a medical career are as close to nothing as you can get.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

I fully understand that, my philosophy is either that or spend 2-3 years getting gpa up post bacc and then doing bad in med school. If I can’t do good in SMP I wouldn’t go so well in med school either. Better find out sonner than latter with a post bacc.

When are you planning on taking the MCAT?

 

[Goro]

Next year spring, I want to take the full MCAT not the pandemic version. That is why I didn’t take it this year. Would you advise me getting my emt certification over winter? And working for experience?

Yes and yes. Gives you a Plan B

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Next year spring, I want to take the full MCAT not the pandemic version. That is why I didn’t take it this year. Would you advise me getting my emt certification over winter? And working for experience?

Yeah! That's great experience!

 

[tantacles]

Okay! Thanks for the input, but regarding finding SMP that would take cumulative gpa of around 2.7, do any of them have linkage?

I think that would be a better question for the general forums.

 

[Goro]

Okay! Thanks for the input, but regarding finding SMP that would take cumulative gpa of around 2.7, do any of them have linkage?

My program does, but I don't keep track of these things elsewhere.

It's your job to do the research.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Ya gotta do the leg work on this. Research programs and figure out which ones offer it.