<p>A friend's daughter hopes to attend med or DO school. She has already graduated from college and has been traveling. She will do a one semester internship and then decide whether to apply to med schools or get a masters to up her low GPA. Do med schools care how old you are?</p>
<p>Our state med school recently accepted 42 year old. He was career changer. (He was in D’s orgo class 2 years ago–which is how she heard about it.)</p>
<p>I think that the average age for a 1st year med student is now 24 or 25.</p>
<p>I have a woman in her late thirties or early forties in my Orgo class. (Which is the same age as the professor actually) I’m not completely sure of her plans though, as it’s a class of 250.</p>
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<p>Not really, no - my class has a few people in their 30’s/40’s who had careers in different fields before deciding to go into medicine.
There are also plenty of people with just a few years off who were doing research, a masters, a PhD, traveling, doing TFA, etc.</p>
<p>Remember, the average age of matriculants is somewhere around 25 these days, not the fresh-out-of-college 21-22 that a lot of people think it is.</p>
<p>Age in this particular case is of no concern, GPA is a huge concern, although we do not know what she has, maybe it is not that low.</p>
<p>She has a 3.1 and a 34 MCAT. Does she need to raise the GPA? Smart young woman who was a slacker in college.</p>
<p>Not for DO school - those stats will be fine. But for MD schools, she should be in the 3.5+ range.</p>