Some advice needed for post bacc or M.A.

You're talking about your MCAT as if freshness is the problem. No, badness is your MCAT problem. You didn't get into med school because your MCAT was too low. Your low MCAT also cast doubt on your 3.89 science GPA, and caused admissions people to assume inflated grades at your community college. Be honest with yourself about this. Spin is useless. Numbers don't lie.

Time and a poor prior performance on the MCAT say that you shouldn't just dive back into MCAT prep. You probably need to plan for rigorous undergrad hard science at a reputable US university. If you are still overseas, that doesn't help your story, because overseas work doesn't help your candidacy for US medical school.

Of note, there's been a theme in nontrad lately that med schools "reward reinvention". This is bull. Med schools "reward" (by granting interviews and/or acceptances) academically qualified students who have distinguished themselves through research, volunteering, and responsibility, in comparison to other applicants. "Reinvention" isn't what's being rewarded. Producing the same academic assets as the rank and file applicants is what's rewarded. How much fresh academic assets are needed to outweigh old academic assets is painfully subjective and pretty much comes down to luck and good choice of schools. In your case, OP, your narrative could look really good: candidate returns to US to try again and succeeds in demonstrating academic capability through fresh academic excellence at a reputable university, substantiated by an above-average MCAT.

So you basically need to figure out how to:
1. Get back to the US, so that your fresh coursework is taken seriously
2. Take more undergrad science at a university, to master the content on the MCAT, to remove doubt about the rigor of your school, and to earn fresh letters of recommendation.
3. Pay for rigorous MCAT prep and treat it like your primary job
4. When your MCAT score is above average (is that 510 on the new MCAT? exercise left to the reader.) then you can reapply.

Doing a 2nd bachelors, such as in biochemistry, is one way to structure things. There are other ways. I do not recommend grad work, because the MCAT and med school are undergraduate. You may find that pursuing DO school is less strenuous, but not by much.

In short, your path to med school starts with getting back to the US. You should be very interested in choosing an advantageous state in which to establish domicile, so that your chances at getting into a public school are maximized.

Best of luck to you.

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Some advice needed for post bacc or M.A.