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Very low meaning in the 2.0 to 2.5 range. I graduated with a 2.4 GPA and about 160 credit hours due to retakes. It is going to take forever to pull that GPA up and quite frankly, I am just not going to do it.
Some of my friends were smart, after their first year of college they switched over to business where they were able to get above a 3.0 and now work as consultants in big cities. So many of them have jobs in media, business, consulting, and are living a life they love. All the while, I am stuck at home with my parents who initially put a lot of pressure on me to go into medicine.
Med school and dental school are just not a realistic possibility and quite frankly, neither is PA, PT or nursing school. So here I have this biology degree with a horrendous GPA to show for it and no realistic future prospects in the medical field.
Almost every night I have problems sleeping because I know that had I switched over to business as soon as I made that D in O Chem, I would have likely been in a better place now.
I have had a strong interest recently in working in other fields such as finance but the truth is, those fields are even more concerned about GPA than med schools.
Now I know that I am not the first bio major in the world to get his degree, make horrible grades along the way, and find out that he is just not cut out for the sciences. At the same time, I feel that I cannot expand on to any other field because they all care so much about GPA. I just wish that I could let employers know that even though I made D's in upper level science classes such as O Chem, that I am a hard worker and not a complete *******.
It is like I am stuck, what can I do about my situation?
Some of my friends were smart, after their first year of college they switched over to business where they were able to get above a 3.0 and now work as consultants in big cities. So many of them have jobs in media, business, consulting, and are living a life they love. All the while, I am stuck at home with my parents who initially put a lot of pressure on me to go into medicine.
Med school and dental school are just not a realistic possibility and quite frankly, neither is PA, PT or nursing school. So here I have this biology degree with a horrendous GPA to show for it and no realistic future prospects in the medical field.
Almost every night I have problems sleeping because I know that had I switched over to business as soon as I made that D in O Chem, I would have likely been in a better place now.
I have had a strong interest recently in working in other fields such as finance but the truth is, those fields are even more concerned about GPA than med schools.
Now I know that I am not the first bio major in the world to get his degree, make horrible grades along the way, and find out that he is just not cut out for the sciences. At the same time, I feel that I cannot expand on to any other field because they all care so much about GPA. I just wish that I could let employers know that even though I made D's in upper level science classes such as O Chem, that I am a hard worker and not a complete *******.
It is like I am stuck, what can I do about my situation?