Overcoming Low GPA and MCAT | My Journey to Med School 

Proud of you brotha! My primary app is in and I'm nervous and excited for what will undoubtedly be one heck of a cycle. Appreciate you sharing your journey with us. Best of fortune to you as you begin medical school.

Congrats on all your success man! Looking forward to hearing that rest of your journey in medicine

Great video, very inspiring. I am currently in the same boat with a low GPA and I just got my second MCAT score back and it is still bad. Will probably go and get my masters in a postbacc program when I graduate. Thank you for making this video, it helped me mentally to know that I am not the only one struggling.

Thank you so much for your honesty and sharing your journey. This helps me to not be discouraged and to give up. I come across other videos where people have failed the MCAT two times and passed with the third try. Motivational video.

This is the second video of yours that I’ve watched. Thank you for sharing your journey with us! These videos are so helpful and encouraging.

University of Richmond is an awesome school apparently. I’m a VA native. Excited to watch your journey

Much love, best of luck to you man!

Your journey sounds incredibly inspiring!

Thank you for your videos bro. Its definitely encouraging seeing someone who looks like me overcome similar obstacles I'm facing on this journey ✊🏾

Yo! Thank you my man for sharing your honest experience and best of luck to you.

Congratulations 🎊 awesome encouraging looking forward to more content

Thank you for posting this video, I needed to hear this today.

You are so calm. This video is great! I’m having a similar journey as far as retaking my MCAT, but I had a music teacher tell me once “Practice makes improvement. No one is perfect at anything”. Those are still words I live by, and slowly but surely I know I’ll make it. Much love and respect, from Wisconsin 😅🧀

I'm in those same shoes. I'm pre-med. Subbing for the journey bro

this really encouraging as i’m dying in physics right now LOL…thanks for being so down to earth in your message it was rlly reassuring 💯

Thank you for your service sir!

Thank you for sharing your story. I hope all is going well on your journey! I'm starting way late (36 in September) working towards my undergrad. My goal is to get accepted into medical school by age 42.

YES!!! Make a video about the program because i am in the same boat, I am struggling and don't know the process and I am just lost.

thank you. I'm inspired. Preparing for my mcat as well. thanks

Amazing!! You're going to be a great doctor :)

Thank you bro, very helpful and encouraging

Very inspirational! Thanks for sharing!

I’m proud of you 👍🏾

Glad I found this channel!

Congratulations on getting accepted into medical school, I love seeing more African Americans in medicine, it’s awesome to see.

Thank you I needed this

Thank you for the video. What was your GPA?

Congratulations! You did it. We don’t have enough black men in medicine. It takes a lot of discipline

Super encouraging video. I would love to know what program you took. I also have a not so good undergrad GPA but am currently getting my masters in public health. I am applying for this cycle and taking my MCAT July 29, so far the scores aren't looking too hot (highest score is a 494) but I am going to keep trying. If I don't get in this cycle then I will probably do a postbac program that focuses on improving studying skills and taking the MCAT or I might pay for a MCAT course (sure that would be cheaper than a post bac program).

do you mind sharing your stats and how long it took from underdrad to med school please? also congratulations!!

Your video was very insightful. I’ll be attending UR this fall as a member of the class of 2026 and I want to apply to medical school traditionally. Can you make more videos that give advice to pre meds, and about the process of applying?

Very informative cuz

persevere brother

Hey Reuben! I loved this video. While I’m not applying to medical school or anything, but my boyfriend is. He has a similar story and he is in his masters program right now, but he’s losing hope because he’s struggling. I’m wondering how we’re your grades during your masters?

Firstly congratulations, you got a lot of heart not to give up and keep pushing, respect! Secondly, may I ask what that last mcat score was?

Thank you very much Ruben for this very great video , you do not mind if I ask you in what range your cGPA was when you applied ?

Beast Mode 📈

How did you do in general chemistry?

Future ND here (yes ND not MD). Your transparency was refreshing and sobering. Looking forward to future content from the channel. Stay great, stay hungry.

Take God with you in all you do family and you will succeed, no door that man closes is truly closed He makes a way. Jesus is the Way, the Life, and the Truth.. grow close to Him and He will grow close to you, talk with Him today, He is eager to talk to you❤❤❤ All love and may His light shine on all you do

What was your new MCAT score?

I am a double major in Business and Psychology with a concentration in Econ and Marketing. I always enjoyed business it makes me think, and it opens you opportunities in plenty of different careers, but it is not something that fills my soul. I’ve really enjoyed psychology so far because it really allows you to understand yourself and other people, and just gives you insight on why we are how we are. I am graduating in 2025 and want to try to pursue medical school to become a psychiatrist. However, with both my degrees I won’t meet the prereqs for medical school, and I cannot fit them within the 2 yrs I have left of my undergrad. I hope to bump my GPA to a 3.5 atleast. I guess my question is if I could get an associates degree in Biology to meet the prereqs. A requirement for medschool besides the prereqs is a bachelors degree, which I would have, but I don’t know if the associates would meet the prerequisites, what advice do you all have?

Late comment lol but are you doing MD or DO?

do you mind dropping you exact stats? it would really help

What was the Score? The third score..

What was ur undergraduate gpa? Im inbsame boat😢

First thing, first. Thanks for the video. Here go, I'm an international student, and I am like scare because in the place I live is like no require be good at school unless you want to go, to havard (is what people here think), and like is all screw up my high school GPA even science I am good at my grade is c+ something like that (and is because the professor don't like to give me higher grade for some dumb reason) anyway and like I don't know what I can to do, for make this happen like good grades at college degree i think ? Anyway is pretty much that for me, and other thing I even not in college, yet I know I freak for "nothing" but have a good reason and even because just are accepted 3.8 of international student for med school.

Great video! What Special Masters Program did you attend?

I’m a senior at a 3.3 gpa, screwed up my first 2 years in random courses like world religion and philosophy lol. I have all As in my science and maths like chem 1 and 2, physics 1, 2 , Biology 1,2 😅😅my “major courses” basically a 3.9 but I don’t think that’s how they look at it right?

what course did you take? I dont think there is a video up about it yet

How many gap year did you take and were the gap years doing the masters alone?

I feel fucking stuck. I suck so bad on the diagnostics i haven’t even taken the MCAT. I’m just failing and wasting life. I did great in school, i have certifications and experience. I’m so mad at myself.

Where in NY was your masters program?

What was your last score and how old were you?

How much do you think that your URM status helped you? Also, if you weren't an URM, do you think you would have still gotten in?

What was your last MCAT score ?

How old are you now? In in pharmacy school and I absolutely hate it, I’m thinking of going back to school for Med school after but I’ll be 25 when I graduate with my PharmD so idk if that’s pushing it age wise

Great content and subscribed! Would love to hear what you think of our grad school channel. Thank you.

Do you have a way for us to reach out and ask for advice?

Where the course video at?

What was your gpa?

Im screwed lol

Skin color is the most important thing in college admissions in this political correctness madness country

Do you think this is still the case had your ethnicity background be different? Would Asians or White people with low scores similar to yours for example, have the same probability of getting into medical school as you?

welp... affirmative action sure helped :)

I got screened out at VCU 🥹🥲. Pain. LOL