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Hello! Thanks for reading.
My brain is imploding at the thought of trying to jam all of my pre-reqs between now and May 2016.
You see, I started as a biochemistry major, and everything and its third's cousin's uncle blew up. My father had a virus attack his heart in December 2012; and has been dealing with related medical issues since.
So, I switched to math, and I decided against vet med (and pretty much any health profession) for a while. I've been doing well in math classes, but I want to try to get into vet med again.
Well, I'm not going to lie, my grades could be a lot better, considering how competitive DVM admissions are.
I have AP credit for the Basic Biology and two semesters of Gen Chem, along with two semesters of American History and Stats. The only pre-reqs I've actually taken are my English classes (Freshman Comps I got two C's, and Brit Lit I got a B, and an honors class that could substitute for an English that's an A) and I got a C in Organic I.
So, the tl;dr of this is:
I had a craptastic start to college. Got a 2.7 my first semester and got fat C's in Orgo I and English I.
English is not my forte (I'm diagnosed with an ASD), so the second semester of English also got a C.
My math classes have buffed my sGPA to a somewhat respectable ~3.28; I have a cGPA of ~3.3. (Upward trends y'all. Not enough credits to leave my first semester behind yet.)
I'm a rising junior with NC residency.
I've taken a practice GRE (Kaplan run) with 158/161 V/Q with no prior studying. I test well and I feel like I would kick the GRE until it cried if I needed to.
I have some research in a non-biology field. (I've done a presentation for the History of Statistics, and was offered to write an article about it. Haven't counted the hours.)
I still have both physics, Organic II, Biochem, Genetics, Micro, and Animal Nutrition left.
I'm taking the physics classes this year, along with Orgo II in the spring (and perhaps Micro as well if I didn't have too many classes left).
My worry is that if my higher level English classes don't substitute for the composition courses, I have around a 2.5 for a pre-req GPA. (A in Stats taken at my uni, B for Calc I and A's for Calc II and III, and I don't know which one of those they'll take either.)
So, people who applied to NCSU, do you know what they prefer when it comes to credits in the pre-requisite GPA? Do I honestly have a chance for the next cycle, starting June 2015? I've owned animals for a while, but I need to start clocking hours as well. I've observed vets doing basics for my dogs, but that's about it.
I'm also thinking of applying to UF as well, so a perspective from them or anywhere would be loved!
Thank you so much! This is the longest post on Earth, I'm sorry. ^^;
My brain is imploding at the thought of trying to jam all of my pre-reqs between now and May 2016.
You see, I started as a biochemistry major, and everything and its third's cousin's uncle blew up. My father had a virus attack his heart in December 2012; and has been dealing with related medical issues since.
So, I switched to math, and I decided against vet med (and pretty much any health profession) for a while. I've been doing well in math classes, but I want to try to get into vet med again.
Well, I'm not going to lie, my grades could be a lot better, considering how competitive DVM admissions are.
I have AP credit for the Basic Biology and two semesters of Gen Chem, along with two semesters of American History and Stats. The only pre-reqs I've actually taken are my English classes (Freshman Comps I got two C's, and Brit Lit I got a B, and an honors class that could substitute for an English that's an A) and I got a C in Organic I.
So, the tl;dr of this is:
I had a craptastic start to college. Got a 2.7 my first semester and got fat C's in Orgo I and English I.
English is not my forte (I'm diagnosed with an ASD), so the second semester of English also got a C.
My math classes have buffed my sGPA to a somewhat respectable ~3.28; I have a cGPA of ~3.3. (Upward trends y'all. Not enough credits to leave my first semester behind yet.)
I'm a rising junior with NC residency.
I've taken a practice GRE (Kaplan run) with 158/161 V/Q with no prior studying. I test well and I feel like I would kick the GRE until it cried if I needed to.
I have some research in a non-biology field. (I've done a presentation for the History of Statistics, and was offered to write an article about it. Haven't counted the hours.)
I still have both physics, Organic II, Biochem, Genetics, Micro, and Animal Nutrition left.
I'm taking the physics classes this year, along with Orgo II in the spring (and perhaps Micro as well if I didn't have too many classes left).
My worry is that if my higher level English classes don't substitute for the composition courses, I have around a 2.5 for a pre-req GPA. (A in Stats taken at my uni, B for Calc I and A's for Calc II and III, and I don't know which one of those they'll take either.)
So, people who applied to NCSU, do you know what they prefer when it comes to credits in the pre-requisite GPA? Do I honestly have a chance for the next cycle, starting June 2015? I've owned animals for a while, but I need to start clocking hours as well. I've observed vets doing basics for my dogs, but that's about it.
I'm also thinking of applying to UF as well, so a perspective from them or anywhere would be loved!
Thank you so much! This is the longest post on Earth, I'm sorry. ^^;