Advice

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I’m just looking for honest advice, so I’m going to post pretty much everything about my academic career. Right now I have a 2.8 science GPA and a 3.1 cumulative GPA. I have two years left of undergrad, and I anticipate being able to bring those up to a 3.0/3.1 and a 3.4, respectively. I’m a double major- neuroscience and political science. I’ve gone to three undergraduate schools, and didn’t perform well at all for two of my undergraduate years (hence the low GPA). In the last couple of years I have been in one school (BYU) and I have been involved in a lot of extracurricular work;
-volunteering for about 4 hours a week at two different hospitals
-volunteering about 8 hours a week as an EMT (I have my intermediate EMT certification)
-volunteering from 4-12 hours a week at a crisis center
-president of the Hebrew club (I’m from Israel)
-vice president of the Nutritional Science Club
-member of the Student Advisory Council (by faculty election)
-committee chair for interfaith dialogue
-volunteered for MedicWest
-Pre-Med club
-Research on antioxidants (10 hours a week for a year, working on publishing)
-Research on alcoholism (10 hours a week for a year)
-several Teacher’s Assistant positions
-volunteer about two hours a week with the Hebrew classes, speaking Hebrew with second year students
-Model United Nations
-Zionist Organization of America
-TOPS tutor
-Habitat for Humanity
-various miscellaneous volunteering opportunities and political events as they arise
-Program Director for the Center for Service and Learning (non-paid)
I have not taken the MCAT yet, but I took a practice test the other day (without studying really) and scored a 27. I’m interested in knowing what schools I should have a shot at getting into, and what I should do to strengthen my application. Thank you.</p>

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<p>At this point there’s no way of knowing anything. You need a final MCAT score and a final GPA – get those as high as possible, and we’ll be able to revisit this in two years. At this time, I would not anticipate being able to apply to medical school directly; you should plan on at least a year or two off so that your senior year grades (which will hopefully be higher) will count.</p>