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Anybody know (or have any educated guesses) as to whether being on academic probation when you're applying to medical school will seriously hurt your application?
I'm in an advanced math class with an insane professor, and there's almost no possibility of making anything above a B-. This, combined with MCAT studying, and a lab job of ~15 hrs/week is really too much to handle, so I'm probably going to drop the math class, which will put me at 11 hours. Anything under 12 hours at my school gets you on academic probation, and since I'm a junior, I'll be on academic probation next semester as I'm applying to med school.
I've got an excellent overall GPA, and I even have a 4.0 in my math major so far, so it's not like this is a recurring theme for me. Medical schools will obviously find out I'm on academic probation, and I will obviously explain my case to them, but will the stigma of probation seriously hurt my app?
(I've also got another W on my app for an english class, and I've never been on any kind of probation, disciplinary or academic, before)
I'm in an advanced math class with an insane professor, and there's almost no possibility of making anything above a B-. This, combined with MCAT studying, and a lab job of ~15 hrs/week is really too much to handle, so I'm probably going to drop the math class, which will put me at 11 hours. Anything under 12 hours at my school gets you on academic probation, and since I'm a junior, I'll be on academic probation next semester as I'm applying to med school.
I've got an excellent overall GPA, and I even have a 4.0 in my math major so far, so it's not like this is a recurring theme for me. Medical schools will obviously find out I'm on academic probation, and I will obviously explain my case to them, but will the stigma of probation seriously hurt my app?
(I've also got another W on my app for an english class, and I've never been on any kind of probation, disciplinary or academic, before)