<p>If you’re in your third or fourth year or already had a bachelor’s degree, then is it possible to start from freshman with new records?</p>
<p>If someone called A who is in third or fourth year or who already graduated with GPA below 3.0 starts all over again from freshman, and then graduate with 4.0 and apply to some schools, will the schools see both of the records? Can you choose to just present your 4.0 record?</p>
<p>I know someone who is seriously considering doing this, but I’m unsure if this will work out.</p>
<p>Unpossible!
My best advice is just to get some work experience under your belt and enroll in a PostBac program. Worst comes to worst, there’s always the caribbean.</p>
<p>Why do you think that NP and PA are better choices than overseas? Yes, I know there are several threads on the cons of overseas medical schools, but we have several family friends who have studied overseas for medical school and have been successful in obtaining allopathic residencies in the States.</p>
<p>As discussed previously, the best case scenario overseas is better than the best case NP or PA. But the worst case scenario overseas is much, much worse than the worst case NP or PA.</p>
<p>You run a roughly 2/3rds chance of never being able to practice medicine in exchange for four years of your life and $240K. That sounds to me like a bad deal.</p>
<p>The other thing I’ve noticed as my training progresses is that we have a lot of very accomplished older professors (chairs, etc) who trained overseas, but very few younger faculty (young attendings) and basically no interns or residents.</p>
<p>I wonder if it’s getting harder over time, which would explain all the “family friends” that everybody seems to know.</p>
But isn’t a PostBac program only for people who doesn’t have all their med school prerequisites completed? I thought this program was only for people who majored in nonscience major like archaeology who doesn’t have enough science courses. For those who majored in a science major, took lots of science courses, and already finished all the med school prereq’s, what’s the point of pursuing the postbac?</p>
<p>I read that it’s a “convenient and affordable way to complete the one year each of introductory science courses required for application to medical, dental, or veterinary school.”</p>
<p>If you majored in a science major, then do you have to go through all the intro courses again in the PostPac program?</p>
<p>I also read that “Advanced elective courses are also available if you already have a science background but wish to enhance your credentials.”</p>
<p>But once you get your PostBac GPA, is it combined with your college science BCPM GPA to give an average of the two? If so, then even if you get a 4.00 on the PostBac program, will your total GPA not be very affected assuming that your college BCPM GPA is less than 3.00?</p>
<p>I still don’t get the point for a science major to go through this program to have another opportunity or edge.</p>
<p>Unlike, say, law school, your AMCAS GPA does include all coursework taken, including post-bacc work.</p>
<p>Units will be averaged out to give you a new GPA. It will not (I hope!) be a 50/50 split, since the work done in post-bacc will not be quantitatively the same as the work done as an undergraduate. But it will still help.</p>
The people I was referring to in my post are actually in their twenties. The correct title would be “children of family friends,” I suppose. However, I by no means disagree with your post. Just wanted to clear mine up.</p>