Premed dreams....

kristin5792
Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:37:55 +0000

I would respectfully disagree that a 3.4 is acceptable to many allopathic schools, and I actually have not found much credible data that med schools take students with a very broad range of GPAs (unless, of course, you consider 3.6-3.9+ to be a very broad range). You have to keep in mind, too, that many of these published averages include all students–non-traditional students, students with incredible hooks, students who are minorities, etc–so just because a school theoretically accepts applicants with a 3.4, that doesn’t mean they’ll accept applicants like this OP with a 3.4.

I think WOWMom’s advice in #4 is sound, and I would take it if I were in your shoes.

Good luck!