I have a 3.5 cummulative high school gpa and want to know if I could be a possible canidate for medical school?
Ok I understand my question is somewhat broad but that is what I am hoping from this post, broad open ended answers. Now I also understand that on top of high school I still need to do well in college and the MCAT and I want to let every one who responds to this post know that I understand the drastic an enormous undertaking that is usually implied when one brings up the profession involving a medical personnel. Now I give you a somewhat brief description of my motivation. At the age of 8 my grandfather was diagnosed with multiple blockages of the heart he was given the normal course of action as anyone else which was a four way heart bypass after his surgery he seemed to be doing well but two years later without any warning my grandfather died not of heart trouble as the doctors so assuringly described, No my grandfather who helped me through the toughest of times died on the week of Christmas of gall bladder failure. which had been festering in my grandfathers body well before my grandfathers heart problems had occured. Of course this is indescribably saddening to me,but I only ask that you respect my post and kindly request that my past only strengthen my passion to become a accredited physican. Ok now ever since that event in my life I have been overwhelmingly determined to in a way to correct a wrong that could have been fixed or in a another way be a doctor that is more caring and would step out and run the extra mile to find not only my patients obvious problems but also any other that another doctor may have missed or misdiagnosed this is not only the kind of person I am but the kind of doctor I wish to become. Still my only question is my gpa decent enough to get into college and what are my chances on getting into a medical school if I major in biology and plan on getting a 3.7 college gpa. Also if any one has the time could you reply with a detailed guide to becoming a doctor because I’ve looked at many of the online guides and honestly they weren’t that great and if you know a good website feel free to post those as well.
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If you have a cumulative 3.5 GPA in High School, you will likely not do better in University, and you will very likely not be selected for Medical School. It is true that the GPA "resets" in university, but the ugly fact is that medical students usually have very high GPA throughout High School and University.
My guess is you should aim lower, such as one of the following health professions (though, note, these too are extremely competitive):
Osteopath
Podiatrist
Pharmacist
Optometrist
Audiologist
Physician’s Assistant
The other choice of course is RN Nurse, leading to Nurse Practitioner
Your high school GPA means nothing, and just because you did poorly in highschool doesn’t reflect how you will do in college. There is such a drastic difference between being a freshman in highschool at fifteen and a freshman in college at nineteen that its not even fair to compare the two.
a 3.7 is a pretty good GPA. The top medical schools want about a 3.81, but that’s just an average.
Basically, all you need to worry about now is getting into a good college, and doing well on your MCATs, earning a high GPA, volunteering, gaining leadership experiences, etc.