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Hey Everyone,
Long time follower, first time poster. Coming out of my undergrad (May 2013) with a 2.56 cGPA, and a 2.4 sGPA. Took a few bad hits with my grades in total. My girlfriend was diagnosed with Melanoma and was put through hell, given more drugs than I can name and had multiple surgeries. It hit me pretty hard, and took a toll on my grades. Although I knew school was important, it was painful to know how sick my girlfriend was and I felt guilty for leaving her to study. The beginning of my senior year, she was put in remission and starting recovering, and I was able to get my grades up to mostly B's. This past year I re-took a lot of my classes, in hopes of getting A's across the board. In the Fall, I did pretty well. However, back in January, my girlfriend had a small recurrence, which resulted in surgery. She does not need any chemotherapy thankfully. This ended up screwing my grades up again, and although I ended up killing myself to pull 90-95's on my final exams, I still ended up with decent-meh grades. I don't know what to do, and I was planning on taking my MCAT's this summer with hopes to apply broadly to DO.
Gen Chem I - C (retook and got an A)
Gen Chem II - D (retook and got a B)
Bio I - C (retook and got a B+)
Bio II - C (retook and got a C again)
Organic Chem I - D (retook and got an A)
Organic Chem II - was planning on taking over the summer
Physics I - C (retook and got a B-)
Physics II - C - was planning on re-taking in the Fall
I have pretty good EC's despite my low GPA (my volunteer ambulance company became my second home when I wasn't in class or at my gf's), and good LOR's. Still haven't taken the MCAT, but was planning on taking this summer (took the AAMC exam #3 as a diagnostic timed and got a 24 with no studying...not sure if that means anything). I feel pretty helpless and disappointed in myself, so any advice would honestly be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Long time follower, first time poster. Coming out of my undergrad (May 2013) with a 2.56 cGPA, and a 2.4 sGPA. Took a few bad hits with my grades in total. My girlfriend was diagnosed with Melanoma and was put through hell, given more drugs than I can name and had multiple surgeries. It hit me pretty hard, and took a toll on my grades. Although I knew school was important, it was painful to know how sick my girlfriend was and I felt guilty for leaving her to study. The beginning of my senior year, she was put in remission and starting recovering, and I was able to get my grades up to mostly B's. This past year I re-took a lot of my classes, in hopes of getting A's across the board. In the Fall, I did pretty well. However, back in January, my girlfriend had a small recurrence, which resulted in surgery. She does not need any chemotherapy thankfully. This ended up screwing my grades up again, and although I ended up killing myself to pull 90-95's on my final exams, I still ended up with decent-meh grades. I don't know what to do, and I was planning on taking my MCAT's this summer with hopes to apply broadly to DO.
Gen Chem I - C (retook and got an A)
Gen Chem II - D (retook and got a B)
Bio I - C (retook and got a B+)
Bio II - C (retook and got a C again)
Organic Chem I - D (retook and got an A)
Organic Chem II - was planning on taking over the summer
Physics I - C (retook and got a B-)
Physics II - C - was planning on re-taking in the Fall
I have pretty good EC's despite my low GPA (my volunteer ambulance company became my second home when I wasn't in class or at my gf's), and good LOR's. Still haven't taken the MCAT, but was planning on taking this summer (took the AAMC exam #3 as a diagnostic timed and got a 24 with no studying...not sure if that means anything). I feel pretty helpless and disappointed in myself, so any advice would honestly be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.