Cances of getting to Med School? really need your input!

by pipe8686 (Posted Tue May 07, 2013 6:06 am)Hello all. Thank you beforehand for taking the time to read/reply to my inquiry.I have a low undergrad GPA (2.89) because during my first 2 years I had to deal with tough family circumstances. Starting my third year you can see I start improving though, with my lowest semester GPA being a 3.2 and highest being a 4.0. My BS was in Nuclear Engineering. After I put my academic life back together, and after realizing I wanted to go in the medical field, I pursued a 3 yr masters (with thesis and thesis helped me be a co-author in an article published in the journal of nuclear medicine, and currently working on 2 future publications as main author and co-author) in Medical Physics from which I graduated with a 3.80 from the University of Florida. During the masters I did 3 semesters of medical rotations (one in diagnostic medical physics, one in therapy medical physics, and one in medical health physics). I am currently pursuing a PhD in Medical Physics (with a current 3.89 GPA) working on a collaborative project between Mayo Clinic (project is mainly based at Mayo), UF, and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute (my advisors are extremely pleased and happy with my work).I have developed a passion for medicine ever since my Masters program and I REALLY want to go to med school in the states. Since I didn't start out thinking med school, I still have to take bio 1 and 2, organic chem 1 and 2, and biochem, which I am planning t...
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