Hi guys,
so I went to a community college for 3 years and I was not sure what I wanted to do, so I took business classes that I didn’t really need and my GPA went down to 3.2. I went to community college because I moved to the U.S. when I was in high school and I couldn’t speak english at all, so it would’ve been really difficult to go straight to a university. I transferred to a university as a biochemistry major. My grades were not that bad (I had As and Bs but no Cs). This is my third year and I finally got a hang of thing and my english was to the point where I can understand pretty much everything, so This whole year I got straight As in really hard classes. My GPA from my university is 3.56 now but my overall GPA is a 3.35. Does anyone know how they look at your transcript or if I still have the chance of getting into a U.S. medical school?
Are you a US citizen or permanent resident?
If you are not, your chance of gaining admission to US med school is all but non-existent. Very few internationals are accepted (under 200/year) at all US med school combined.
AMCAS and ACOMAS both will use every single college level grade you’ve ever earned to compute both your GPA and sGPA.
What is your science GPA (only bio, chem, physics and math classes)?
What is your grade trend? List you GPA for each year you’ve been in college.
Your overall GPA is extremely low for medical school, but if you have very strong upward grade trend and with your backstory–I won’t say it’s impossible. But no one can say until you take the MCAT and have a score.
To be a competitive candidate for med school though, you need more than just a good GPA and good MCAT score–you need the appropriate medical ECs–community service to the less fortunate, physician shadowing (osteopathic med schools require a LOR from an osteopathic physician), clinical experience (paid or volunteer), leadership positions and some schools expect laboratory research experience.
If your are us permanent resident or better, you can try DO schools. What is your Mcat and any medical ecs?
Speak to your school counselor.
I hate to say it this way, but if you are NOT a citizen/permanent resident, I would say you have 0 chance. I don’t feel great about your chances to begin with but I can at least imagine a scenario where you do get in. If you’re international I simply can’t imagine you’d get in anywhere.