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Originally Posted by wardt
Thanks for the valuable info! So you do you think I should spend a few more quarters trying to boost my GPA before applying or should I just take the Kaplan course and start studying for the MCAT? My GPA at the University is 2.54 and my GPA at the community college was 3.8.
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It's hard to say how the admissions committee is going to look at your GPA and I wouldn't plan your future around anything that anyone on here tells you, we can only tell you what we think.
That being said, your cum GPA is right around AUC's average, but your university GPA is low. I don't think it's going to look good that you only did well in community college and your trend is going in the wrong direction. Usually, people do poorly at first and then improve, not do well, transfer to a good school, and then get bad grades. I'm not saying this is true, but it looks as though you couldn't handle a more difficult courseload, and your comment that you could have done better at a no-name school makes it sound that way even more. If you can't handle undergrad, you're probably going to have a hell of a time in med school!
As far as if you should take another year or not...that's up to you. Personally, I'd probably study my *** off for the MCAT, get a good score to show them that I can handle the work, and apply. Worse thing that can happen is they say no and you can try again after taking some more course work. And even if they do say no because of your GPA, if you get a good MCAT, you can still use it for 4 years, so it wasn't a waste.