<p>Since you’ve taken a math class (or classes) in college, then you have a science GPA (sGPA). Your sGPA includes ALL biology, chemistry, math and physics classes you’ve taken during college or any college classes you took as co-enrollment courses in high school. </p>
<p>(For the record, any lab grades you receive while taking coursework count too.)</p>
<p>For MD programs, both your original poor math grade and the second better grade will be calculated into both your sGPA and GPA.</p>
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<p>DO -Doctor of osteopathy–another type of medical degree that brings the title doctor and practice privileges identical to those of an MD.</p>
<p>Osteopathic medical schools have their own specific entry requirements which may or may not the same as those as allopathic (MD) medical schools. (It varies by school.</p>
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<p>If you have no chemistry at all, then at minimum it’s going to take you 2 years to fulfill even the most minimal science requirements for medical school. You’ll need to complete both general chem and organic chem (both with their required labs)–which is typically taken as 2 2-semester sequences. Since you have such a limited background in chem, it would be academic suicide to try to attempt OChem without gen chem first.</p>
<p>I just did a long post but internet booted me so I will summarize. </p>
<p>3.16 is very low to get accepted to any medical school as far as I know. I think that you might want to study the DO osteopathic and the foreign MD med school average GPAS to see about them. I think the DO schools allow you to forgive grades by retaking classes so maybe you could retool your gpa somehow.</p>
<p>but if statistically speaking i have no chance then it’s kinda sad isn’t it? if you think about it, i have no chance, from now until I die, to get into a good med school.</p>
<p>but if statistically speaking i have no chance then it’s kinda sad isn’t it? if you think about it, i have no chance, from now until I die, to get into a good med school.</p>
<p>Foreign medical schools are not a good idea for most people. The graduation rates are low. The USMLE pass rates are significantly lower than US medical schools. (MD ~97% pass; DO ~89% pass; FMG ~72% pass.) And the residency match process heavily favors US med grads. (In order to get a medical license in the US, it’s required that all physicians complete a US medical residency. With the 15 new medical schools that have opened–or are in the process of opening-- in the US, the number slots for FMGs is declining sharply.)</p>
<p>OP— you have a chance to go to med school, but right now your chances of getting admitted are quite poor. Your GPA is low, your sGPA is low, you have none of the ECs/experiences med schools look for in applicants, and you haven’t taken a science class since high school.</p>
<p>Medical school admission is a long hard slog for everyone. You need to be willing to put in the volunteer hours and the study time to make it happen. If you are willing to dedicate the next 2-4 years of your life, more or less full time to developing a CV that medical schools would find attractive, then you might have a chance to get in a med school of some type (MD, DO), somewhere in the US. </p>
<p>Preparing for med school admission is not something to be done lightly or easily. Think hard about why you want to enter medicine. If it’s purely for financial reasons–you’d be better off going to work for UPS or FedEx. Or even completing your MArch and designing doorknobs for living.</p>
<p>My opinion is that there are people who became doctors from worse positions than yours currently. I think that you should post your numbers in a new post on sdn and see what people say. Fwiw physicians assistants make excellent salaries and brings you pretty close to being a doctor as far as responsibility. I always say I will take a food pa over a mediocre md Good sp. I think that you might want to look into grade forgiveness and perhaps contact an osteopathic admissions office about that. It seems grade forgiveness works better if your grades are polarized Then you work I the low ones. Osteopathic schools are traditionally but not exclusively directed towards family type of medicine but You can still become a specialist. I know that there is a difference in admission standards depending on geographic isolation of a school. I know in florida there is at least one school easier than others to get in. Do you speak any flsseddddd foreign langs?</p>
<p>^This is a little off-topic, but I’m curious nonetheless: how reliable do you think “chance me” threads on SDN are? I always discredited them because the majority of the posters are premeds/applicants, and I (perhaps incorrectly) assume they don’t know much more than me (when I was an applicant).</p>
<p>^^Have to agree with kristin on SDN “chance me” threads. Responders are typically pre-meds. Sometimes you even get high school kids responding. You seldom (never?) see a med student, resident, physician or adcomm giving odds.</p>
<p>You might hear from some 25 year old non traditional students with helpful advice. I would not call it a chance thread. I posted on behalf of my extern and got some good ideas and some good links with helpful data.</p>
<p>I already sent the OP a PM, but just in case: in addition to considering medicine, you also may want to consider becoming a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. The prep time will be almost as long - because both degrees require about the same amount of prerequisites as being an MD (just slightly different ones). But after the prerequisites, you will be practicing a lot sooner.</p>
<p>Of course, PAs and NPs don’t earn as much as physicians do, but they have a wide scope of practice these days, prescribe medicine and have mostly autonomous care. They also help people, if that is your primar goal.</p>
<p>Applied to UCLA Ronald Reagan hospital last week and finally got a call yesterday saying she enjoyed reading my essay and would like to interview me! woot</p>