Advice on having possibly failed a class.

[Sonatavarius]

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This is the first thread I've made, so I hope its in the right place. My apologies if its not.

My college offers med school caliber classes to both its grad students and its undergrad students. Having the ability to pick between several different 5 hour courses like Medical Physiology, Gross Anatomy, Neuro Anatomy, and Histology, I chose to take Med Phys now as a Junior. It started off a little rough since I'd never had a class like that before, and it only got rougher. We just took our third exam and I thought i was prepared for it... but I feel that it went catastrophically wrong. The drop date is long past, and I feel that I will have failed the course by the end of the semester. I bit off a little more than I could chew and that I was ready for.

My goal is to get accepted into a medical school.... Ole Miss's medical school would be the most likely (by proximity...) ...or William Carey's new DO school.

I've seen a few threads that are similar but they weren't quite the same issue, so does anyone have any advice for me? I know it won't be the end of the world if I have to do something else, but do I still have a snow ball's chance of getting an "accepted" letter now?

 

[the duck]

This is the first thread I've made, so I hope its in the right place. My apologies if its not.

My college offers med school caliber classes to both its grad students and its undergrad students. Having the ability to pick between several different 5 hour courses like Medical Physiology, Gross Anatomy, Neuro Anatomy, and Histology, I chose to take Med Phys now as a Junior. It started off a little rough since I'd never had a class like that before, and it only got rougher. We just took our third exam and I thought i was prepared for it... but I feel that it went catastrophically wrong. The drop date is long past, and I feel that I will have failed the course by the end of the semester. I bit off a little more than I could chew and that I was ready for.

My goal is to get accepted into a medical school.... Ole Miss's medical school would be the most likely (by proximity...) ...or William Carey's new DO school.

I've seen a few threads that are similar but they weren't quite the same issue, so does anyone have any advice for me? I know it won't be the end of the world if I have to do something else, but do I still have a snow ball's chance of getting an "accepted" letter now?

What are you're stats at the moment? Good/bad ECs?


. I doubt this alone will keep you from medical school, Though it will be a rather large red flag... I can imagen that applying right away might not go so well...but a lot of people take time off to boost their app

, why don't you work really hard to pass the class, then worry about it...

 

[Sonatavarius]

I haven't calculated it in a long time, but stats are give or take a tenth of a point ~3.3-3.5 for both science and normal gpa. I've made a C in one other class. I was on the college cross country and track teams my first two years, but sustained a shoulder injury that doesn't allow me to compete at that level anymore. I don't take the MCAT till July 28th this summer. My College offers majors in Biology Medical Sciences and Chemistry Medical Sciences. Up until now I was on track to double in both. The track I'm on now would have me seeing Gross Anatomy, and both biochems next year.

I scored 89 percentile out of everyone that took the ACS Organic final exam (I think 2001 edition or a little more recent)

I'm going to see what I can do about salvaging the class. We'll see what happens with the cardiovascular system...

 

[ucsfstudents]

Don't give up yet. Talk to the professor and see if there is anything you can do, or if they have any advice for you. Regardless of whether you pass this class or not, medical school is still an option. Just try not to make this mistake again.

 

[MacVA]

You might still be OK. Be glad you are a MS resident... 🙂

 

[Sonatavarius]

Why's that? Because UMMC only accepts ~100 MS residents a year? I'm sure they can find 100 bodies to fill the slots that haven't failed a course.

 

[LettersInKanji]

So you haven't gotten your test grade back yet? The test was just yesterday, right? You probably did better than you think you did. Try talking to Dr. Baldwin about everything. He knows a lot about the med school admissions process. Also, is the final exam 40% of your grade? It might be possible to bring your grade up if you do really well on the final.