Is a 3.0 grade average good enough to get into OBGYN?

Question

I was wandering If I go for my Obgyn can I later on change a do mid-wife work? How do I go about obgyn? What classes will need to be taken in college? How many yrears of college? I have a 3.0 grade average is that good enough to get in? do I need to take the sat?

Answer 1

I doubt you will be able to get into Medical School with a 3.0 in College.  Have to do better than that. Very competetive, lots of smart people out there. ( actually lots of people willing to work hard- that's what it takes) You can get into a University with a 3.0, but  that will not be good enough for Yale or Harvard, and the like.(Every member of the Freshman class at Yale was Valedictorian at their High School.) Then work really hard, get A's in all your Pre-Med courses , come in with a good 3.8 GPA, and you have a decent chance.  Then 4 years of Medical School, then Residency- I think OB-GYN is 4 or 5 years, not sure. Then you are ready to borrow another 150K and open an office.  

You cannot do OB-GYN without being an MD or DO first. I do not understand your plan to go down to mid-wife work. If you had an MD, I doubt they would let you.



Sounds like you need more information on just what an OB-GYN specialist does. It is a lot more than delivering babies.

Brain doc, so I can't help you much. Read.

Answer 2

Are you a high schooler? If so it doesn't matter what your GPA was in high school, you have a clean slate for college. Of course a high SAT score might bode well for the MCAT, but in of itself it means jack squat. I'm not sure what you mean by OBGYN other than an obstetrician-gynecologist Doctor. If you do indeed get into a medical school, once again the slate is clean (for the most part) and your selection for residency/fellowship is based on your performance and recommendations acquired during medical school, not college or high school. So take it one step at a time there. :)

Edit: To any doctors who have been practicing for "20+ years," a 3.0 may have sufficed in the 1980s, but a 3.0 now gets your application tossed in the trash during numerical screening of primary applications. Most medical school applicants now would be shoe-ins during the 80s and even 90s. The MCAT is now more difficult and are infinite resources available online. What used to be a straight-forward comparison of intelligence and aptitude has quickly evolved into no-holds-barred warfare between ruthless candidates. In 1988, 26,000 applicants competed for 17,000 available seats. Last year, 44,000 applied for the same number of seats!

Answer 3

Gee, I got into medical school with a 3.0.

I graduated in the top third of the class and now have been doing OB/GYN for 20+years.

Of course I scored in the top 1/1000 in standardized tests though.

College course work mainly is intended to show that you can handle the load (so take more than the minimum) and learn the material. My class at Univ of Miami had English majors, Nurses, Fighter pilots,  Football players, at least two real geniuses. It takes all kinds.