Extremely low GPA (twice) any advice?

[Twinklesz]

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What are my options?

I went to a pretty good college, flunked out freshman year with a 1.7 GPA (premed).
Transferred to a not so good school and got 100+ credits in 6.5 years with several retakes/withdrawals and a 2.3 GPA In Health Science. I had no drive or purpose for being in school, just went because my parents forced me. I slept through most classes and hardly studied hence why my grades were so low.

So my question is: I have a daughter now and need to secure our future with a real career and don't want my intelligence to go to waste. Now I have the drive to succeed and motivation to study and do well but how do I prove this without taking classes for a 2nd/3rd time? Do I have to?

I am open to whatever career options I have at this point. I have considered OT, PT, teaching, nursing, public health, nutrition, PharmD, social work, etc.

 

[smiley27]

26

 

[yugo2113]

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[Twinklesz]

What does 26 mean? Are you saying that's my age?

Thank you for the reply however I'm not opposed to retaking a few classes to get into a program, I meant I didn't want to redo all my pre-req's. I'm not really interested in doing a 2 year nursing program at a CC. Are there any fields anyone can think of that requires me to have a science background but are more lenient to a lower science GPA?

 

[deleted248403]

I am open to whatever career options I have at this point. I have considered OT, PT, teaching, nursing, public health, nutrition, PharmD, social work, etc.

Medicine is off the table.

But you need to do some soul searching and career research. SDN is designed mostly with pre-med and pre-dents in mind, and this forum is designed for ppl with low-GPAs to look for post-bac/SMPs to get into med/dent school.

Its not for "what shall i be when i grow up and btw i have a crappy GPA".

This all sounds harsh, but this is a you-problem, and you need to figure it out. I can't tell you to do PT/OT or nutrition - you have to figure out if you like it

 

[PeachyOrange]

I'd recommend going into admissions at your local college/university and talking to a guidance counselor about pre-reqs for each option you have in mind. Medicine is def off the table.
Only you can make this decision based on what's feasible for you

 

[darklabel]

If you don't want to retake classes, then DO is off the table (MD was out a long time ago). Even with retakes, I doubt you really want to retake 100+ credits and I believe AACOMAs has a limit of 12 retakes of classes on their application. However, Texas does have a fresh start program that you can do which is your only real option of MD/DO so I would Google that.

As Robflanker said, this is a forum for Pre-Med, Pre-Dental, Pre-Pharm etc and your only option at this point is doing an Allied Health program. But as said, despite what the commercials say, the job market for these are quite saturated in metropolitan areas, so do your research.

With so many credits, I don't see pre-anything as an option except Nursing where they have programs in which they only look at your most recent Pre-Reqs.

Sorry 🙁

 

[AM4EVA]

To the OP:

in my humble opinion YOU make your own path; whether or not you still want MD/DO or PA or whatever YOU need to be able to FIRST AND FOREMOST convince YOURSELF that you have the capacity to take YOUR future into YOUR hands and make a dream into a reality. YOU have got to figure out what it is that is setting you to fail and begin to do well in classes, all classes, any classes that you are in from this DAY FORWARD. i am living proof of this. perhaps its good that you have a daughter and YOU will not procrastinate and work diligently towards your goal. REMEMBER IT IS UP TO YOU TO TURN THINGS AROUND FOR THE BETTER OF FOR THE WORST.
i dont know why we make things so complicated when it really is simple. PLEASE DONT GIVE UP ON YOURSELF!! i hope i have made myself clear.
Good luck in whatever you do and Godspeed.