What's next step

[tmacc]

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I have a 2.66 uGPA.

I'm thinking about applying to Medical School. How many credits of post-bacc will I need to get my overall GPA up to a competitive number? Or rather, what will I need to do to get my overall GPA up and have a successful application? Thanks.

 

[FrkyBgStok]

you have 2 options. if you are considering MD, you could take another 40 credits at all As and raise your GPA up to a 3.0 (assuming you have 120 credits), apply to a SMP and hope for the best, or you can retake some of your poor grades for a drastic and quicker GPA fix. either way it is going to be long, hard, and entirely uphill. and I don't think you will ever have a successful application. you are going to have to settle with good enough to try.

 

[tmacc]

or you can retake some of your poor grades for a drastic and quicker GPA fix.

Thanks for replying. Where can I find the information regarding this?

How does this work? For example, if I received a "C" in "French Fry Making" and retook it for an "A", would the two grades be averaged? Or would only the "A" count towards the GPA.

 

[EdLongshanks]

Thanks for replying. Where can I find the information regarding this?

How does this work? For example, if I received a "C" in "French Fry Making" and retook it for an "A", would the two grades be averaged? Or would only the "A" count towards the GPA.

For MD schools, neither. The A would simply be another 3 hours of an A to be added to all of your other hours.

For DO schools, here is where you have the big possibility of improving your GPA, because only the last grade counts. The osteopathic schools will allow you to fix your GPA, the allopathic (MD) schools do not.