Honestly, focus on your MCAT because a stellar MCAT will get you much further than a person with stellar GPA and average MCAT scores. Take me for example. I graduated with a 3.8 and majored in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience. Now I’m working on a Master’s degree– however, I am also a California resident which means I need above a 30 on the MCAT to be competitive– in other words something like a 35. I’m not getting that yet so all of my obsessivness with GPA, research, volunteering, etc. is kind of going down the drain because my application probably would not make the first point cut off when they mutiply your GPA times your MCAT. Meanwhile, another girl from California went to a small unknown school with a 3.3 GPA and got a 35 on her MCAT. Guess where she’s at? UCSD– one of the top schools. She had research experience etc. but that stuff doesn’t matter until you pass the first cut-off and only then your application will get looked at. Conclusion: you did what you did with your GPA– it’ll take years to bring it up to a 3.7– do well on your MCAT and you’re set– don’t do the stuff I did it’s a waste.
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