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Hello and welcome to the pod forums!
Ill paint you a realistic picture for honest chances
2.3 is gonna be REALLY hard to get in, even if your MCAT is pretty good. The lowest GPA I have heard of getting into podiatry school is around the 2.5 mark. I suppose that it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to snag an acceptance, especially at one of the larger schools.
I would try everything in your power to bump your GPA up to the 2.5 range.
Also, I would give a call to the schools and be honest. Ask them.
Ill paint you a realistic picture for honest chances
2.3 is gonna be REALLY hard to get in, even if your MCAT is pretty good. The lowest GPA I have heard of getting into podiatry school is around the 2.5 mark. I suppose that it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to snag an acceptance, especially at one of the larger schools.
I would try everything in your power to bump your GPA up to the 2.5 range.
Also, I would give a call to the schools and be honest. Ask them.
I'm on mobile so hard to do multi quotes. Doing this from memory ---
- no troll.
- lack of resources in carribean in what sense? I've personally seen residents and clinical rotation students at a hospital close to my home. and they were all foreign med students. American U Antigua was the school they all came from. I'm not going for something competitive like plastics. Aside pod, family medicine or intern med is what I would go for. I also have a buddy who just came out of the carriebans and his story is different from ur lack of resources and horror picture. Any stats u can give me, pls?
- not interested in nursing. My girl is a nurse, sister is a nurse, and cousin is nurse practitioner. It's not the job for me. Medical device sales isn't for me either. Worked as a salesman before and I didn't make it.
- I started undergrad doing psych. Hated it, switched to environmental studies.
- on mobile but there was a few threads where one guy was in my gpa range. He got about 40 on old mcat. He did a masters and still was below 3.0 and get 1 acceptance. Just need a similar chance to him that's all.
- $1k is, all I have now to, use for anything. I could try to register for a class in the summer science classes are 4 credits so will cost $1300+ but I would instead prefer to try my chances at podiatry acceptance.
- contacted some schools today. Some replied. They said masters or postbacc. And they look, at every part of the profile. They said a good mcat helps too.
- alternate careers: carribean school for IM, FM. Carriebean med schools seem to be more forgiving which is why I fancy my chances. If not medicine then I see myself getting a PhD and going into academia in the environmental science track
I really feel like taking a chance and applying. Not perfect grades but there's more to medicine than grades. After shadowing the doctor I really enjoy this field.
-There's really not much behind my grades. I just didn't care much for school at the time. I failed a class 2x back to back and I went to the professor because I
needed signature for change of major. We talked for a bit and he said if podiatry is what I want, I definitely have the capacity to do it. My grades aren't truly reflection of who I am as a student. That's my point here.