What do you guys think are my chances

[Moops80]

<p>So, my high school and undergrad years were less than impressive. I ended up with a 2.79 GPA for my undergrad with a BS in biology, concentration in microbiology. I moved on to grad school after a year of working in a lab and earned a 3.8 GPA there, taking the thesis based program. I recently took the MCATS (after spending more than a month relearning my chemistry and physics) and earned a 37Q. Also, for the passed 3 years, during and passed my grad school years, I have been running as an EMT. </p>

<p>I graduate this semester (I'm assuming I will have a 3.8 so far, at least. It is a conservative estimate) and I was curious how my application would look. Sure, I've got reasons for my poor grades in college, which improved the last year and a half I was there, but I'm not entirely sure they will really play a factor as I was still a poor student in high school.</p>

<p>Anyway, let me have it.</p>

[eadad]

<p>They won’t see your high school grades, don’t worry about that. The 2.79 may be hard to overcome. Others may be able to shed more light on the impact of the grad degree than I can, but my thoughts are that unless you have a really compelling explanation you could be viewed as a slacker by most allopathic med schools and and they might be afraid to take a chance on you. You may need to look at the DO route.</p>

<p>Hopefully you have figured out why you didn’t perform well as an undergrad because if you do get into med school you are going to need to really ramp it up to be able to handle the workload.</p>