SystemFailure
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Hello,
I have been out of undergrad for two years working FT as a clinical research assistant, and recently PT as a vaccination assistant at the mass vaccination sites in my state. I am currently getting my EMT license to work FT on an ambualnce, while dropping back to PT at the hospital. The pre-med track was dropped in undergrad due to my low cumulative GPA (<3.0), and having to take a semester off due to personal reasons. I was able to successfully show an upward trend between junior summer and senior year/summer, keeping a GPA of around ~3.5 for those semesters. However, the damage was already done thanks to my freshman/sophomore year grades.
Now, thinking about medical school, I'm at the age-old crossroad: DIY post-bacc or master's degree. I understand that SMPs are high risk, high reward, but I simply do not have the finances to get a degree that will be worthless in the real world if med school doesn't pan out. I'd much rather cut my losses on my uGPA and do a bio heavy master's program that I'm interested in/is worth something on the job market.
I guess this is a very wordy way to ask if graduate GPAs are barely weighted against undergrad during applicant review. A lot of forums across reddit/SDN/CC back this up, but I feel like that can't be right. Isn't a master's a way to show med schools that you can handle advanced coursework?
Thanks for the read
I have been out of undergrad for two years working FT as a clinical research assistant, and recently PT as a vaccination assistant at the mass vaccination sites in my state. I am currently getting my EMT license to work FT on an ambualnce, while dropping back to PT at the hospital. The pre-med track was dropped in undergrad due to my low cumulative GPA (<3.0), and having to take a semester off due to personal reasons. I was able to successfully show an upward trend between junior summer and senior year/summer, keeping a GPA of around ~3.5 for those semesters. However, the damage was already done thanks to my freshman/sophomore year grades.
Now, thinking about medical school, I'm at the age-old crossroad: DIY post-bacc or master's degree. I understand that SMPs are high risk, high reward, but I simply do not have the finances to get a degree that will be worthless in the real world if med school doesn't pan out. I'd much rather cut my losses on my uGPA and do a bio heavy master's program that I'm interested in/is worth something on the job market.
I guess this is a very wordy way to ask if graduate GPAs are barely weighted against undergrad during applicant review. A lot of forums across reddit/SDN/CC back this up, but I feel like that can't be right. Isn't a master's a way to show med schools that you can handle advanced coursework?
Thanks for the read