I am currently in my fourth year of undergrad. I transferred after my freshman year to my current school and thats when I decided to do pre med. I am currently a general science major and my grades from sophomore year and in gen chem really bring down my GPA. I have an overall GPA of 3.25 and a 3.05 science GPA. I am on track to graduate this year but will have to pile on 4 upper level science classes at once for the next two quarters which I am doing now and it is killing me. I have been thinking about taking another year and switching my major from General Science to Biology, which gives me about a total of 10 more science classes to take over 5 quarters. I am confident I could get good grades in those classes especially because I would not be overloading. A 5th year would also give me a chance to hopefully do research with a professor at my school, shadow a physician, and continue my volunteer work at the hospital. However, after talking to my pre med advisor today, she presented the option of doing a 2 year post bacc masters program at a medical school for 2 years. I haven't looked into it much, but there is one post bacc program like that in my state and it is a private school, not affiliated with the state medical school. I am leaning towards taking a 5th year and switching to Bio major (chem minor since i only need one more class), but want to hear some other opinions.
Thanks everyone. I know have posted something similar to this before, but now I have the post bacc option as well.
Thanks everyone. I know have posted something similar to this before, but now I have the post bacc option as well.