No More Grade Replacement for DO schools?

[naivePremed]

I am a first time applicant, however this news is so disheartening and without any notice, and I am trying to scramble for alternatives.
I want to know what you guys as re-applicants options might be, after retaking courses this year and realizing that those retakes wont count towards this cycle?
Good luck to everyone, this is a huge surprise; a bad one at that.

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[bears1992]

What is your cGPA, sGPA and MCAT? There is an "underdogs" thread that is full of people with terrible GPAs that got in. The common theme seemed to a SMP (special masters program) with high gpa and research experience. I have also seen adcoms say that certain schools only consider the last 2-3 years for gpa. The problem arrises when a gpa is below the cutoff (less than a 2.75 for most schools) because your app gets tossed before anyone really gets a good look at it. I should mention that with a sub 3.2 gpa, your MD options are probably non-existent.

Tons of people got screwed by the sudden removal of grade replacement BUT the good news is it might cut some more slack to non-trads. Most people that turned a 2.5 into a 3.5 from grade replacement were non-trads. Medical schools don't want a class full of bio/chem majors so they might put less weight on gpa's and more weight on the MCAT for non-trads.

 

[naivePremed]

thank you for the reply, I am looking through alternatives like SMPs

 

[Chimichica]

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