Terrible Freshman Year?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>So here's my situation: (Apologies in advance for wall of text)</p>

<p>Had a terrible freshman year - 2.52 GPA. Failed Calculus, retook got a C+ got carried away with the whole "Freedom thing"; Skipped half the classes first quarter, didn't go once 2nd quarter, puckered up a bit and went to most of them third quarter.
Summer - Took Philosophy + volunteered in the ER of a major hospital.
Finished with all my general education requirements.</p>

<p>Sophomore year - 3.98 GPA
A's in 3 quarters of O-Chem,Biology, Physics.
Had a 24 unit course load (Full time = 15) 3rd quarter (O-chem, bio, physics, calculus + 2labs) Got a B in one of the labs.
Summer - Went to China, worked with doctors in a hospital setting. Got hands on experience. Did some patient care.
Did 'very' minor undergraduate research. (Cleaning, pipetting, PCR)</p>

<p>Junior Year - 3.96 GPA
A's in Biochem, upper division chemistry, statistics, psychology, sociology and anatomy/physiology and all labs. B in Spanish (not sure why I took this.)
Better undergraduate research. Co-authored paper which was in a minor local science publication (literally wrote half a paragraph of the total 6 pages).
Summer - Received EMT-B certification, began working in the same hospital I volunteered in freshman year. Began training volunteers.</p>

<p>Took MCAT - Score of 34 </p>

<p>Senior Year - 3.7 (So far, have a B in Latin, thought it would be fun; it isn't.)
Taking upper division biochem courses and a psychology class. Attempting double major in psychology + biochem. Or could graduate end of this quarter. Also working on Honors thesis.
Continuing to do undergraduate research. Looking into getting a EMT job here, which to be honest I might not have time for.</p>

<p>I've submitted most of my applications already.
Applied to UW, UCLA, Hopkins, UCSF, UCSD ~a dozen mid/low tier Med Schools, 4 DO's and 2 Carribean med schools.
Is it possible for me to get into UCLA/SF/SD or Hopkins with this? Or will they look at my 3.50 average, go "No way." and throw my application in the dumpster?</p>

<p>On a side note, since the University of Washington's medical school looks like GPA with a weight of 1x on Freshman, 2x on Sophomore and 3x on Senior year I've got a cumulative GPA of 3.75, would this mean I have a better chance of getting into UW (the highest ranked med school for primary care on US news) than I would be for UCSD (38th)?</p>

<p>Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. </p>

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<p>Unless you’re a resident of one of the WWAMI states (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana , Idaho), I’d rule out UW simply because they don’t consider OOR applicants for admission. (Exceptions: MD/PhD and applicants who have “very significant” records of working with underserved and minority communities.)</p>

<p>UCLA, UCSD, UCSF and JHU are all very research oriented schools. I doubt you’ll get much attention from any of them without some pretty significant research experience since your stats for all of those are below their averages.</p>

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<p>A 3.5 will get past the automated screen at even the most competitive school so at the very least human eyes will look at your application and see that it’s an unbalanced 3.5. What they’ll think of it I can’t say.</p>

<p>Just in case no one has told you - if you end up having to pick between DO and caribbean MD, go DO. It’s the difference between an 85% chance of getting a residency and a 45% chance.</p>

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<p>There is one applicant this cycle with 3.5, whose parent said that she did not get any II to MD (yet!), she also applied to DO, did not mention Carribean. Also , many mentioned that it seems that this cycle is more crowded than usual and some with the MCAT 37-38 are not getting many II’s at all.<br>
You just have to see what will upfold. Your last 3 years are impressive. They may consider it. However, you may be cut automatically because of overall 3.5.<br>
As a reference D. (3.98/35) got accepted to 4 out of 8 that she applied 4 years ago. But she did not apply to CA or JHU or anything like these. I heard that CA is way out reach for the most. And I believe it is true, since D’s Medical School class in Midwest by far filled by lots of CA kids.<br>
I agree that DO is not bad. It is tough though applying to very selective residency, but it is done. D. met some DO docs and they are in the same positions and MDs, I imagine the same income also. </p>

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<p>Forget Caribbean schools…yuck.</p>

<p>What are the mid-tier/low-tier SOMs?</p>

<p>What is your home state?<br>
What is your undergrad?</p>

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<p>^^ No one can tell you what are your chances. Just apply wide and broad, best of luck</p>