Hello,
I transferred to UC Davis from community college. I will be 27 when I graduate from UC Davis. I have not always wanted to go to medical school or be in the medical field, but I have a strong interest in it now. I have not taken the MCAT, but I am very strong in the sciences and reading / writing. I have two years of undergrad research experience and some volunteering. However, I have a lengthy and severely flawed transcript.
First Question: I attended community college off and on for 9 years, age 16 to 25. I have A LOT of community college units. Are all units averaged together for the med school application or clumped together and weighted by Freshman/Sophomore/Junior/Senior standing? I downloaded an AMCAS GPA calculator for Excel, which seems to just take the average of everything. The problem with this is that I have so many community college units as compared to my two years of university units that my university grades are not having that much of an impact on my overall GPA. Is this really how my med school app GPA will be calculated?
Second Question: If my GPA is calculated as I stated before, my BCPM GPA is an abysmal 3.10. However, my GPA for my junior and senior years when I finish will be near a 4.0. I'm assuming it is not worth it to apply to medical school with a 3.10 BCPM GPA, and I am a science major, so I'm not sure a Post-Bacc is a viable option. I'm looking in to doing Master's programs for alternative health-related careers, but is there a possible route to med school available to me?
Third Question: I took General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, three semesters of Bio, up to Calc II, and one semester of Physics at CC. I have taken / am taking remaining Physics, Calc III, Linear Algebra, additional Biology, Biochem, Genetics, Anatomy, Physiology, Immunology, Microbiology, Virology, and a couple others at university. I know most of the classes I took at CC are the basic med school prereqs, so will those classes be more important even if I took more advanced course work at UC?
Additional Information: I did not graduate from high school. I dropped out and received an equivalency degree. I did not have a stable income or living situation for most of the time that I was in community college, so I have three semesters of W's because I dropped all my classes and relocated on three different occasions. I have quite a few F's from when I was 16-17 because I was not attending college of my own free will, but rather because my mother said I had to in order to keep my health insurance. I filed for academic renewal at this school years later, so none of those grades affected me much until now. I also have several repeated math courses (3 or 4) and C's in an introductory Chemistry course, General Chemistry, and one semester of Bio, which accounts for my low BCPM GPA. I started taking these classes with exactly zero knowledge in the area of mathematics and chemistry at age 20. I have no C's or failing grades for my last three semesters of CC.
If you read this whole thing, thanks. Haha.
I transferred to UC Davis from community college. I will be 27 when I graduate from UC Davis. I have not always wanted to go to medical school or be in the medical field, but I have a strong interest in it now. I have not taken the MCAT, but I am very strong in the sciences and reading / writing. I have two years of undergrad research experience and some volunteering. However, I have a lengthy and severely flawed transcript.
First Question: I attended community college off and on for 9 years, age 16 to 25. I have A LOT of community college units. Are all units averaged together for the med school application or clumped together and weighted by Freshman/Sophomore/Junior/Senior standing? I downloaded an AMCAS GPA calculator for Excel, which seems to just take the average of everything. The problem with this is that I have so many community college units as compared to my two years of university units that my university grades are not having that much of an impact on my overall GPA. Is this really how my med school app GPA will be calculated?
Second Question: If my GPA is calculated as I stated before, my BCPM GPA is an abysmal 3.10. However, my GPA for my junior and senior years when I finish will be near a 4.0. I'm assuming it is not worth it to apply to medical school with a 3.10 BCPM GPA, and I am a science major, so I'm not sure a Post-Bacc is a viable option. I'm looking in to doing Master's programs for alternative health-related careers, but is there a possible route to med school available to me?
Third Question: I took General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, three semesters of Bio, up to Calc II, and one semester of Physics at CC. I have taken / am taking remaining Physics, Calc III, Linear Algebra, additional Biology, Biochem, Genetics, Anatomy, Physiology, Immunology, Microbiology, Virology, and a couple others at university. I know most of the classes I took at CC are the basic med school prereqs, so will those classes be more important even if I took more advanced course work at UC?
Additional Information: I did not graduate from high school. I dropped out and received an equivalency degree. I did not have a stable income or living situation for most of the time that I was in community college, so I have three semesters of W's because I dropped all my classes and relocated on three different occasions. I have quite a few F's from when I was 16-17 because I was not attending college of my own free will, but rather because my mother said I had to in order to keep my health insurance. I filed for academic renewal at this school years later, so none of those grades affected me much until now. I also have several repeated math courses (3 or 4) and C's in an introductory Chemistry course, General Chemistry, and one semester of Bio, which accounts for my low BCPM GPA. I started taking these classes with exactly zero knowledge in the area of mathematics and chemistry at age 20. I have no C's or failing grades for my last three semesters of CC.
If you read this whole thing, thanks. Haha.