3.45 GPA, what are my chances med school?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
1

<p>Freshman Year- 1.0 GPA
Second Year- 3.9 GPA
Third Year- 3.9 GPA
Fourth Year- 4.0 GPA
Fifth Year- 4.0 GPA
Sixth Year- 4.0 GPA</p>

<p>Overall GPA- 3.45
Science GPA- 3.5
MCAT- 42</p>

<p>Those are my overall statistics. In case you're wondering, the reason my freshman GPA was so shockingly horrible was because of insomnia. I was sleeping 3 hours a night and my performance suffered. I went back to sleeping normally my second year, and that was when my GPA improved.</p>

<p>I know my GPA is low, but I'm hoping my MCAT and my improvement will make up for it. Can anyone say if I'll be competitive for med school admissions?</p>

2

<p>???</p>

<p>Have you completed your 6th year of undergrad or are those later years simply projections?</p>

<p>Have you graduated? If not, which year are you currently in?</p>

3

<p>Why six years to graduate? I understand the five years as year one classes had to redone successfully, but why year six?</p>

4

<p>Sniff, Sniff. I smell something. ;)</p>

5

<p>It spent extra time in college to get my GPA up. Is that a bad thing?</p>

<p>I averaged 15 units a semester over those 6 years.</p>

6

<p>oh, I missed the MCAT 42…is that real?</p>

<p>Anyway…if you truly have a MCAT 42, and you can show some kind of medical record for your first year, there probably are some schools that would accept you.</p>

7

<p>assuming you are white, students with an MCAT above 39 and a GPA above 3.4 but below 3.6 got in 80% of the time. (<a href=“https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/157998/mcat-gpa-grid-by-selected-race-ethnicity.html&lt;/a&gt;) I have no idea what the impact of being in school for 6 years will have - especially without a reason better than “to improve my GPA.”</p>

8

<p>It depends on where you apply.</p>