Your overall GPA is low for medical school applicants. A 3.7 is borderline; however, if your GPA in the prereqs is higher, then you may get in considering all of your other assets. But if it’s the prereqs bringing your GPA down, then I think the odds are against you being accepted.

I believe I know the school you are attending and a GPA of 3.5 is doing good there. I would ask your academic advisor about the school’s policy regarding repeating course work to elevate grades. Depending on the response, you may want to delay applying to med school until you have elevated your GPA or minimize your extracurricular activitiers to focus on your remaining coursework to try to bring up your GPA. You certainly have enough activities to impress the admissions committee.

Nobody ever knows what decisions an admissions committee will make. Assuming a worse case scenario that nothing improves scholastically for you, I would still recommend that you apply to at least 12 medical schools. Your undergrad school carries an excellent reputation and that might sway some people sitting on a committee–you just never know. If you do not get accepted, I think you would make an outstanding candidate at some of the top tier foreign medical schools and certainly you would be accepted at some of the better Caribbean medical schools.

You are a strong candidate–you just need to rectify whatever is bringing your GPA down. I wish you luck! I suspect your friends will be calling you Doctor someday.

Also, what is your BCPM and Overall GPA? I would say that if you can get above a 30 on the MCAT, your chances of getting into a Med School is very solid.

Make sure to give plenty of time to study for the MCAT – usually 18 months of a course of study and a lighter (12 credit) on your 6th semester would make for easier times doing well on the MCAT. The MCAT is one of the only ways to judge all candidates from all school throughout the country.

The MCAT score is going to be the big one. So take it seriously.

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