<p>i'm interested in applying to medical school in the future. would med school care whether i went to grad school or went back to college and got a 2nd B.S. degree?</p>
<p>Med school adcomms don’t care about either. It will neither advantage you nor disadvantage you for admissions.</p>
<p>Neither matter.
What is your situation? Do you have an undergrad GPA to improve?</p>
<p>Why would consider either? Very few are gone these routes, notebly the ones who did not get accepted to SOM in their first cycle. Are you planning not to be accepted? If so, I would suggest to change this plan and work hard to get accepted first time around.</p>
<p>yea my undergrad gpa is very low. i’ve heard that for those with low undergrad gpa’s, they should do some upper level courses and excel in those so med school can see that they can handle tougher courseload and that they’ve matured and work hard, etc. but those are primary reasons for doing that. you guys have any recommendations as to what else i should do?</p>
<p>In your case, then, a second undergrad degree won’t be especially helpful. You need to step up your game and demonstrate you can be successful at an academically challenging grad program.</p>
<p>AMCAS has a searchable database of post-bacc programs. Choose “academic record enhancer” as the program type.</p>
<p><a href=“https://services.aamc.org/postbac/[/url]”>https://services.aamc.org/postbac/</a></p>
<p>^this (10 char)</p>
<p>what exactly is a post-bacc program? how is it different from grad school?</p>
<p>A grade enhancing post-bacc is graduate program that has heavy emphasis on med school type coursework. (IOW, human physiology rather than microbiology or ecology.) </p>
<p>These are special programs that are terminal (meaning not transitional–i.e. geared toward a PhD application) master’s degrees that often do not require a thesis. Some may offer application counseling and clinical volunteer opportunities not found in a typical master’s program.</p>