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Well its me again. In case you have no clue about my journey to dental school, just look at all my threads. Anyway, to make things simple, heres my story.
I graduated from a 4-yr California university, took a bunch of CC classes during summer for fun and all that, and have an AADSAS GPA of about 3.25, and a science GPA of about 2.7.
I took my DATs recently and I got a 23AA/23TS/22PAT. Complete breakdown is here.
I am in the middle of my Masters program at another institution and hope to continue to raise my GPA and apply in June 2012 (I applied before in June 2010 before my DAT retake and obviously before the Masters).
The Masters program is Molecular Biology, 1 year, non-thesis. Its just 3 quarters (Fall, Winter, Spring) and about 36 units in total (if you dont count the seminars, its probably just like 30 units of pure academic classes).
Anyway, the problem that I have is that I got a 3.0 my fall quarter. This sucks. I got an email saying that I need to get above 3.0 overall or I might get kicked out (theyre not joking about this). So Im like whatever, Ill do better Winter. Fall Quarter was compromised of 3 classes for a grand-whopping total of 11 units.
My problem is that I just took my FIRST midterm for my WINTER class (one of them) and I got well below the average, while the median in the class was something like 88. I got like 70. Its honestly pathetic. I dont know what to do. I studied hard and tried my best. If I had an extra day, I would have done much better. They curve the average to a B in graduate school. It was 33% of my grade with 66% remaining in the final. Even if I get like a B- in this class, and lets say a B+ in my other class and an A- in my 2-unit seminar class (they give letter grades for these), itll barely be above 3.0. Winter Quarter consists of only 9 units of letter-graded classes.
Im freaking out because what if I get a C in the class? Ill be kicked out! They dont even accept grades lower than a B- or else you have to take the class over. Im freaking out because this program was supposed to showcase my awesomeness and show the dental schools that I can do it. It was supposed to have its own graduate GPA or something like a 3.5+ which would look MUCH better compared to my 3.25 undergrad AADSAS GPA as well as my 2.7 AADSAS undergrad science GPA.
I have no backup. This WAS my backup! I can only pray to God and email my professor and beg for a compromise. Maybe shell drop the midterm grade and only count my final as my TOTAL grade. I have no idea. I havent received the grades for my other classes (the midterms, I mean for Winter Quarter).
I cant just be getting straight Bs. I have to get As!
Even if I managed to get like a 4.0 spring quarter (I'll be taking 11 units) and bring the overall GPA to something like a 3.1, and then apply in June 2012 with my 23/22/22 DAT score, and with my nearly 600 hours of assisting hours, and apply to Western, USC, UCLA, UCSF, UNLV, NYU, Boston, UoP, ASDOH, Midwestern, what are my chances?
Im already pulling my hair out. Someone please help . Im sick of having these uphill battles.
UPDATE #2:
I went through Excel, calculating EVERYTHING; here it is:
Undergraduate:
AADSAS/Sci/BCP
3.15/2.85/2.64
Graduate (projection):
3.3/3.3/3.3
Undergrad + Graduate:
3.15/2.91/2.70
I graduated from a 4-yr California university, took a bunch of CC classes during summer for fun and all that, and have an AADSAS GPA of about 3.25, and a science GPA of about 2.7.
I took my DATs recently and I got a 23AA/23TS/22PAT. Complete breakdown is here.
I am in the middle of my Masters program at another institution and hope to continue to raise my GPA and apply in June 2012 (I applied before in June 2010 before my DAT retake and obviously before the Masters).
The Masters program is Molecular Biology, 1 year, non-thesis. Its just 3 quarters (Fall, Winter, Spring) and about 36 units in total (if you dont count the seminars, its probably just like 30 units of pure academic classes).
Anyway, the problem that I have is that I got a 3.0 my fall quarter. This sucks. I got an email saying that I need to get above 3.0 overall or I might get kicked out (theyre not joking about this). So Im like whatever, Ill do better Winter. Fall Quarter was compromised of 3 classes for a grand-whopping total of 11 units.
My problem is that I just took my FIRST midterm for my WINTER class (one of them) and I got well below the average, while the median in the class was something like 88. I got like 70. Its honestly pathetic. I dont know what to do. I studied hard and tried my best. If I had an extra day, I would have done much better. They curve the average to a B in graduate school. It was 33% of my grade with 66% remaining in the final. Even if I get like a B- in this class, and lets say a B+ in my other class and an A- in my 2-unit seminar class (they give letter grades for these), itll barely be above 3.0. Winter Quarter consists of only 9 units of letter-graded classes.
Im freaking out because what if I get a C in the class? Ill be kicked out! They dont even accept grades lower than a B- or else you have to take the class over. Im freaking out because this program was supposed to showcase my awesomeness and show the dental schools that I can do it. It was supposed to have its own graduate GPA or something like a 3.5+ which would look MUCH better compared to my 3.25 undergrad AADSAS GPA as well as my 2.7 AADSAS undergrad science GPA.
I have no backup. This WAS my backup! I can only pray to God and email my professor and beg for a compromise. Maybe shell drop the midterm grade and only count my final as my TOTAL grade. I have no idea. I havent received the grades for my other classes (the midterms, I mean for Winter Quarter).
I cant just be getting straight Bs. I have to get As!
Even if I managed to get like a 4.0 spring quarter (I'll be taking 11 units) and bring the overall GPA to something like a 3.1, and then apply in June 2012 with my 23/22/22 DAT score, and with my nearly 600 hours of assisting hours, and apply to Western, USC, UCLA, UCSF, UNLV, NYU, Boston, UoP, ASDOH, Midwestern, what are my chances?
Im already pulling my hair out. Someone please help . Im sick of having these uphill battles.
UPDATE #2:
I went through Excel, calculating EVERYTHING; here it is:
Undergraduate:
AADSAS/Sci/BCP
3.15/2.85/2.64
Graduate (projection):
3.3/3.3/3.3
Undergrad + Graduate:
3.15/2.91/2.70
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