Re: going back to college at age 28
- From: BMJ <parametric_equation@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:27:22 GMT
rrc wrote:
On Mar 13, 9:27 pm, "nikhil1home" <Nikhil1H...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I am thinking about returning to college and gruduate in the
biology major. I have 2.99 GPA from 99 credits(Mechanical Engineering
major). I have about 30,000 in savings. Is it crazy to think about
attending medical school after graduation or even return back to
college?
I don't mean to ruin the party here but medical schools are relatively
tough to get into. If you listen to the banal so-called wisdom of
engineering faculty members, a 2.9 in engineering is equal to a 3.5 in
biology. In reality, most medical school won't automatically add 0.5
to one's GPA for studying engineering. Instead, without a greater than
35 MCAT, you're in the automatic rejection pile. And reason why I say
this is that anyone with below a 3.0 (along with a corresponding below
target MCAT) better have family connections or had won the nobel peace
prize setting up a clinic in a remote place in the Congo.
The best course of action, if you want a health care related and
stable career, is to finish with a bio major, raise that graduating
GPA to a 3.1/3.2, and apply for pharmacy school (PharmD).
A number of years ago, I heard of someone who initially convocated with an engineering degree and then went into dentistry, combining backgrounds in both fields to, as I recall, design prostheses.
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