cGPA 2.8 sGPA 2.9

So this is two and a half years of not-good grades and one year of good grades so far? And three years to turn it around before you are 25? Here's a plan -

1. You don't have room for any more mistakes. Don't let things go wrong again. If they do start to go wrong, get onto whatever the problem is immediately and put a solution in place.

2. Keep up the high grades until end of senior year. Will that get you over 3.0? If you are above 3.0 and a record of reinvention you have some hope of entry into an SMP which has a good record of getting high-scoring candidates into med school. Then "all" you have to do is get those high grades in the SMP.

3. Look at taking a fifth year before you graduate, also with high grades. Alternatively, if you hate your current school consider graduating and going somewhere else to do a self-directed post-bac, until you have the sort of GPA that will get you into the sort of medical school you want - be careful to check out the requirements for pre-reqs and grade replacement (for DO) before you start courses, so that you are not limiting your options or taking more time with extra courses than you need.

4. Hold off on taking the MCAT until you are solid on the knowledge and have done a lot of practising. Again, you need a high score straight off: no retakes for you.

5. Keep a strong hold on your finances while you are doing all this. You might well end up at an expensive private school, and starting med school with a lot of undergraduate debt can make the whole process financially unviable. If you take time out for financial repair as well as grade repair it might be worth it in the long run.

6. Qualifying as a doctor is a marathon, not a sprint. Setting yourself an artificial time deadline (why 25?) is just giving yourself an additional headache you don't need.

Good luck.

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cGPA 2.8 sGPA 2.9