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I'm a bit confused about GPA screening, so here are the questions I have:
1. Are med schools screening for the 3.0 cutoff with the AMCAS GPA or your College Undergrad GPA?
2. Where/How are they looking at upward grade trends?
I graduated undergrad with just over a 3.1 cumulative GPA in a non-science field. I initially started college over a decade ago, and was a science major. Being the first in my family to go to college, I genuinely didn't know you could Withdraw from classes and got several Fs and Ds in science courses. I ended up taking several years off of school because I had to adopt my sibling, despite not even being 21 myself. Eventually, I returned to school, and finished my undergrad degree in a different field. My GPA after transferring from a community college to a 4-year was just under a 3.8 (yay upward trend!) Over the last two years, I did 40 credits of a formal post-bacc program at a 4-year university with a 4.0 GPA and a 526 MCAT. My extracurriculars are really good, I have plenty of shadowing and volunteering as well, and work experience from my time off school. When I use the AMCAS spreadsheet calculators, my cumulative and sGPA are both under a 3.0. So I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to be auto-screened out by every school I apply to next year (taking another year to do a research position and get more clinical hours).
1. Are med schools screening for the 3.0 cutoff with the AMCAS GPA or your College Undergrad GPA?
2. Where/How are they looking at upward grade trends?
I graduated undergrad with just over a 3.1 cumulative GPA in a non-science field. I initially started college over a decade ago, and was a science major. Being the first in my family to go to college, I genuinely didn't know you could Withdraw from classes and got several Fs and Ds in science courses. I ended up taking several years off of school because I had to adopt my sibling, despite not even being 21 myself. Eventually, I returned to school, and finished my undergrad degree in a different field. My GPA after transferring from a community college to a 4-year was just under a 3.8 (yay upward trend!) Over the last two years, I did 40 credits of a formal post-bacc program at a 4-year university with a 4.0 GPA and a 526 MCAT. My extracurriculars are really good, I have plenty of shadowing and volunteering as well, and work experience from my time off school. When I use the AMCAS spreadsheet calculators, my cumulative and sGPA are both under a 3.0. So I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to be auto-screened out by every school I apply to next year (taking another year to do a research position and get more clinical hours).
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