2nd year bio major, low GPA, too late to fix it and become pre-med?

[alycat318]

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Hello 🙂. I am in the 2nd quarter of my sophomore year. I am a biology major, so I'm technically on track with the required pre-med classes. But my GPA is terrible. For the past half a year I've been struggling to find some motivation, or find something I would want to do with my life and work towards. I thought a lot about medicine, and I feel like it is something I would really enjoy and be good at. However, I feel like my GPA is too low to pick up, now. :/ Anyone have any advice?

 

[billw]

That really depends on what your GPA is and how many credits you have taken. You can always bring up a bad GPA by taking more classes and doing well in them. If you are willing to consider DO, you can really improve your GPA by retaking classes you got bad grades in. If you are running out of time, you could declare a second major and take some more credits or do a post-bacc.

The best thing to do would be to put together a spreadsheet with all your grades and calculate how many credits of As it would take to achieve the GPA you want.

 

[Catalystik]

This might help:
AMCAS GPA calculator: http://medschool.ucsf.edu/postbac/pdf/AMCAS%20GPA_Calculator%20Version%204%20Final.xls

 

[LawNonTrad]

This might help:
AMCAS GPA calculator: http://medschool.ucsf.edu/postbac/pdf/AMCAS%20GPA_Calculator%20Version%204%20Final.xls

This thing is amazing, btw!

Thanks.

 

[vhunter]

This thing is amazing, btw!

Thanks.

awesome! whoever made this just made my day now i can find out what my science gpa is..... but it's not looking too good 🙁

 

[fahimaz7]

IF you can get your GPA >3.5, then you have a realistic chance of getting accepted. If you can't, then you're going to have a really long road ahead of you.

 

[Catalystik]

This thing is amazing, btw!

Thanks.

You should have asked. I post this link a lot.

 

[Catalystik]

MB was here

Too sleepy to make a substantive contribution, eh (pronounced like the letter A).

 

[mic2377]

Well, you should definitely do all you can to raise your GPA immediately. It is possible to recover from a abysmal undergrad GPA - I did it - but it is really difficult and taxing, and much harder than just getting good grades in the first place.

Take some time, re-evaluate, etc. I actually took an education psychology class that focused on learning strategies in teaching, and it was very helpful for my own academic success.

 

[BlueElmo]

IF you can get your GPA >3.5, then you have a realistic chance of getting accepted. If you can't, then you're going to have a really long road ahead of you.

I agree, to be competitive for many MD schools, you should have at least a 3.5.