<p>I'm a sophomore right now and I think I'm on the right track. I started hospital volunteering my spring semester freshman year and am continuing that now. I also got involved in a research group last year too im still with. I'm mainly concerned about my GPA. I have a 3.3 cumulative from freshman year, from bad judgement one semester, and realistically see myself getting a ~3.6 by the time I apply. I live in NY so my ideal goal would be SUNY Stony Brook or SUNY Buffalo for med school. I do very well on standardized tests, and say I get a ~34 or higher MCAT, would that and a 3.6 GPA still make me competitive and give me a decent shot at medical school and the above ones?</p>
<p>AAMC acceptance grid by MCAT and GPA</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/2012factstable24.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321508/data/2012factstable24.pdf</a></p>
<p>Show improvement from here and get higher GPAs each year. If you can get to a 3.5 - 3.6 by Senior year and have your MCAT at 33+ you will be in a good position to get into A medical school. Not the top 20, but you might get a decent number of interviews.</p>
<p>The AAMC grid is a really good resource. You can also get a premed status report that calculates your personal odds of getting in.</p>
<p>Have you already spoken with your premed adviser?</p>
<p>OP,
Do not waste your time here, work harder to get your GPA higher. Sophomore is way too early to predict anything anyway as most harder classes are still not taken, most ECs are not done, expect to get much more challenging and much much busier.</p>
<p>What percentile was your SAT or ACT? Is a 34 (~88-90th percentile) realistic?</p>
<p>^ IWBB you bring up a good point- is there any documented correlation between ACT/SAT percentile and MCAT percentile?</p>
<p>Wow, re IWBB #6. Just a couple hours ago, I mentioned the ACT/MCAT correlation to someone, but warned that I was not sure there was statiscal evidence that proved it.</p>