I barely graduated undergraduate school two years ago. I am thinking of going to medical school. Please advise?

I barely graduated undergraduate school with a 2.0 GPA but now two years later I am convicted to go to medical school, so I have decided to attend a different university for pre-med classes. If I graduate with a new degree and pre-med classes with 3.5+ GPA, could medical school be an option? Does my past failures at the previous university affect me harshly??I barely graduated undergraduate school two years ago. I am thinking of going to medical school. Please advise?
You probably don't want to do an entirely new degree. Usually schools will not accept credits that have already been used for a degree, so you would have to do the full four years for a new degree.





A better idea would be a post-bacc medical program where you just take the pre-med classes. http://services.aamc.org/postbac/





Its too late to start one of these programs for this fall, so I would start looking for research assistant jobs at local hospitals. You need to show you are committed and a 9-12 months doing medical research will improve your application.I barely graduated undergraduate school two years ago. I am thinking of going to medical school. Please advise?
In the US, repeating courses to elevate a GPA is a common practice. Some schools average the two grades, some will record only the higher grade and some schools report both grades.





More importantly, a person's grades are a reflection of their study habits, which are deeply ingrained patterns of behavior. Unless you learn a different behavior, it would be unwise to expect a different outcome.





In the US, every university has specially trained counselors who can assess study habits and teach new ones. It isn't a simple case of studying harder (whatever that means). There are different techniques that can be learned that appeal to your individual strengths.





Once you have learned your new study skills, I would recommend repeating a few of your prior courses in which you did the poorest to ameliorate your GPA and also put your new skills to the text. If your new skills dramatically improve your GPA, then take a post-Bacc program for the prereqs.





As for your past failures adversely affecting your chances in being accepted into medical school--the opposite is true. AdComs love a rags to riches story.
you still have a very realistic shot at FOREIGN/CARIBBEAN medical schools, if you can do well at your new university. that's your only shot (assuming, of course that you are not a minority student). if you are a URM, you may still have a shot traditionally black colleges or your state med schools if you do well at your new university (3.5 gpa) and if you do well on the mcat (like 28 if you are black; 27 if you are latin). me schools are very forgiving with URMs.
Even if you earned straight A's in all of the pre-med classes, you wouldn't be able to raise your GPA over 2.7 (This is assuming 130 credit hours from your degree and 60 additional hours from premed coursework).





Unless you get perfect MCAT scores or something, I just don't think that there's a realistic shot of you getting into medical school with a cumulative GPA under 3.0.
I think getting your GPA up would be a good idea.





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