ECE-protein
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Hello everyone,
I was hoping to gain some advice on my situation. I earned my bachelors (BA in Biology) in 2017 with a 3.1 GPA, since I really loved research, I spent a majority of my time in lab and not class, along with some personal stuff that happened, which caused a plethora of withdrawals, bad grades, and overall bad time.
I then ended up going into the biotech industry. During my time there, I took 30+ credits of upper level undergraduate coursework and maintained a >3.9 GPA in those courses. The reason taking additional classes was because I was very interested in pursuing a PhD later and wanted to show graduate schools that my undergraduate performance was an anomaly and did not define me as a student.
After about 4 years in industry, I joined a "very good" PhD program in Biochemistry (I am a second going on third year), although the lab I work in is BioE/synthetic bio (which is ranked "top 10" if that matters). I recently realized that I want to go to medical school more than anything. The reasoning is a very long story and something that I have thought about for an extended period of time. For the sake of brevity in an already long post, I will omit the reasons .
Of course wanting to go to medical school really stinks since my undergraduate performance is very lackluster, and quite frankly makes me feel disgusted in hindsight. I have used the AMCAS Excel grade calculator spreadsheet and entered all the classes I took:
To summarize a long post:
I was hoping to gain some advice on my situation. I earned my bachelors (BA in Biology) in 2017 with a 3.1 GPA, since I really loved research, I spent a majority of my time in lab and not class, along with some personal stuff that happened, which caused a plethora of withdrawals, bad grades, and overall bad time.
I then ended up going into the biotech industry. During my time there, I took 30+ credits of upper level undergraduate coursework and maintained a >3.9 GPA in those courses. The reason taking additional classes was because I was very interested in pursuing a PhD later and wanted to show graduate schools that my undergraduate performance was an anomaly and did not define me as a student.
After about 4 years in industry, I joined a "very good" PhD program in Biochemistry (I am a second going on third year), although the lab I work in is BioE/synthetic bio (which is ranked "top 10" if that matters). I recently realized that I want to go to medical school more than anything. The reasoning is a very long story and something that I have thought about for an extended period of time. For the sake of brevity in an already long post, I will omit the reasons .
Of course wanting to go to medical school really stinks since my undergraduate performance is very lackluster, and quite frankly makes me feel disgusted in hindsight. I have used the AMCAS Excel grade calculator spreadsheet and entered all the classes I took:
- AMCAS GPA: 3.43
- AMCAS BCPM: 3.48
- Post-Bacc GPA: 3.85
- Post-Bacc BCPM: 3.93
- Graduate program GPA: 3.75 - 3.8 by the time I am done (two B's really killed me!)
To summarize a long post:
- I am unsure if I will be able to overcome my past undergraduate performance with what I have done
- I am unsure what MCAT would be acceptable to apply with, I am aiming for as high as possible, but unsure what would be something that allows me to gain acceptance
- Unsure if I should finish my PhD or not. I am leaning toward yes since it will probably be a positive on my application. The only downside is that I will probably be around 31 when I finish hehe.
- Not sure what else I should be doing to increase my application chances.
- There was a brief point in my undergrad where I considered nursing, so I have a couple of years of work experience as a Nurse Assistant and Medical Scribe as well as clinical volunteering
- I have been volunteering at my local hospital, will begin shadowing
- I do not care about ranking, MD vs. DO, etc. Just want to get into a US medical school (MD or DO)
- I am a Texas Resident