Failed a class

[Chibucks15]

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I chuckled out loud when I read that he was killing people. It was funny.

There are good dr and bad drs just as there are good and bad whatever profession. How are people so sensitive?

Honest question and I hope someone answers. To those that are offended. Have you ever held a real job and interacted with others outside of school? I’m not being sarcastic I am really curious. I’m beginning med school next year and an trying to gauge my future interactions. If I should just keep my thoughts and jokes to myself. Can I get into trouble for being blunt?


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its a whole different world between people who took time off before school and the ones that went straight through haha I try to keep my head down and avoid the firestorm of complaints and stuff when something (even the tiniest thing) doesn't go exactly their way. I'd feel people out and know who you can joke to before lettin em fly. There's always a couple that might report ya for something that was a joke

 

[Goro]

@Goro could i ask for your advice as well?
similar situation with failing and all but in undergrad. at my school you can register for independent research credits with a professor as a freshman/sophomore, and they are pass/fail (s/u). i signed up for 3 credits last semester while learning the techniques and i got a pass from my PI pretty easily. this semester i'm taking 17 credits so i only signed up for 1.5 research credits since our credit max is 18.5. my PI told me i haven't done enough work this semester (in terms of data and experiments) and she told me she plans to give me a fail for those credits. HELP i'm scared i will get continuously questioned about this throughout the application process. it won't affect my GPA and i'm a good student but she thinks i haven't done enough. technically 1.5 credits that she is grading me on means coming in for 4-5 hours/week which i have definitely done, even if it isn't enough work for me to stay in the lab, i still have spent enough time in lab to pass. i will talk to my advisor about withdrawing from the research and if that doesn't work i'll try to talk to my PI. but what if nothing works and i end up with an unsatisfactory on my transcript? how bad will that affect my application? what can i do?

An F in this course will be minor, but do NOT ask this PI for a LOR!!!

See if you can take a W

 

[Goro]

I chuckled out loud when I read that he was killing people. It was funny.

There are good dr and bad drs just as there are good and bad whatever profession. How are people so sensitive?

Honest question and I hope someone answers. To those that are offended. Have you ever held a real job and interacted with others outside of school? I’m not being sarcastic I am really curious. I’m beginning med school next year and an trying to gauge my future interactions. If I should just keep my thoughts and jokes to myself. Can I get into trouble for being blunt?


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That was a classic case of projection with sammie and the OP.

 

[handsanitizer2021]

An F in this course will be minor, but do NOT ask this PI for a LOR!!!

See if you can take a W

oh i would not ask this PI for a letter!! will be leaving this lab. i will try to take a W but there isn't a great chance they will allow me to withdraw as an exception. if i have to take a U (unsatisfactory) how badly will this affect my application...? when people read apps do they look at semester GPAs? or every single class? because if they look thoroughly in the transcript they will see the U for this research "class" :/

 

[Goro]

oh i would not ask this PI for a letter!! will be leaving this lab. i will try to take a W but there isn't a great chance they will allow me to withdraw as an exception. if i have to take a U (unsatisfactory) how badly will this affect my application...? when people read apps do they look at semester GPAs? or every single class? because if they look thoroughly in the transcript they will see the U for this research "class" :/

It will likely stand out as a single bad grade amongst a sea of good ones, so expect to be asked about it.

We normally look at year by year GPAs, but we do see your transcripts.

 

[mrbreakfast]

Honest question and I hope someone answers. To those that are offended. Have you ever held a real job and interacted with others outside of school? I’m not being sarcastic I am really curious

Welcome to (almost) 2019. The majority of your classmates will have never had a job in their lives. They know NOTHING about the real world outside of the classroom. Trust me.

i will try to take a W but there isn't a great chance they will allow me to withdraw as an exception. if i have to take a U (unsatisfactory) how badly will this affect my application...?

I had an awkward withdraw on my transcript and I think one med school interviewer (out of dozens) asked me about it.

Overall, I had an absolutely garbage undergrad transcript - worse than yours could ever be - and ended up at one of my last choice med schools, probably due to my awful GPA. I decided I wouldn't let it affect my career trajectory, and thus far it hasn't at all. You'll likely fair better.


Not going to quote anyone, but I made the mistake of reading this entire thread, old posts and all. I'm listed as a med student, but many years ago I was a struggling premed who was told they had zero chance at med school. Because of the advice I got (on a different username) from users like @Goro I'll match to residency with my MD in a few months. Not everyone here is ungrateful.

 

[handsanitizer2021]

Welcome to (almost) 2019. The majority of your classmates will have never had a job in their lives. They know NOTHING about the real world outside of the classroom. Trust me.


I had an awkward withdraw on my transcript and I think one med school interviewer (out of dozens) asked me about it.

Overall, I had an absolutely garbage undergrad transcript - worse than yours could ever be - and ended up at one of my last choice med schools, probably due to my awful GPA. I decided I wouldn't let it affect my career trajectory, and thus far it hasn't at all. You'll likely fair better.


Not going to quote anyone, but I made the mistake of reading this entire thread, old posts and all. I'm listed as a med student, but many years ago I was a struggling premed who was told they had zero chance at med school. Because of the advice I got (on a different username) from users like @Goro I'll match to residency with my MD in a few months. Not everyone here is ungrateful.

what was your GPA?

 

[mrbreakfast]

what was your GPA?

Don't recall, but I do remember getting close to straight Cs my freshman year, which crushed my overall GPA regardless of my future performance.

 

[NicMouse64]

Welcome to (almost) 2019. The majority of your classmates will have never had a job in their lives. They know NOTHING about the real world outside of the classroom. Trust me.


I had an awkward withdraw on my transcript and I think one med school interviewer (out of dozens) asked me about it.

Overall, I had an absolutely garbage undergrad transcript - worse than yours could ever be - and ended up at one of my last choice med schools, probably due to my awful GPA. I decided I wouldn't let it affect my career trajectory, and thus far it hasn't at all. You'll likely fair better.


Not going to quote anyone, but I made the mistake of reading this entire thread, old posts and all. I'm listed as a med student, but many years ago I was a struggling premed who was told they had zero chance at med school. Because of the advice I got (on a different username) from users like @Goro I'll match to residency with my MD in a few months. Not everyone here is ungrateful.

Majority of my class at USMD has had full time work. The trend is towards semi-non-trads. I'm more or less "traditional" with one gap year where I worked full time. It was good to learn about crappy office politics.

 

[handsanitizer2021]

It will likely stand out as a single bad grade amongst a sea of good ones, so expect to be asked about it.

We normally look at year by year GPAs, but we do see your transcripts.

ah gotcha. would this reflect as badly as a D or F in biology or chemistry, or can i play this off as being irresponsible and not putting in enough hours at lab? the class is called "introduction to research.." i have otherwise all As this semester

 

[Goro]

ah gotcha. would this reflect as badly as a D or F in biology or chemistry, or can i play this off as being irresponsible and not putting in enough hours at lab? the class is called "introduction to research.." i have otherwise all As this semester

It could be perceived as that you goofed off in the class or worse, that you cheated and got an F instead of a suspension or dismissal.

Or you had a really bad prof/PI.

 

[handsanitizer2021]

It could be perceived as that you goofed off in the class or worse, that you cheated and got an F instead of a suspension or dismissal.

Or you had a really bad prof/PI.

i did have a really mean PI haha. hopefully will 1.5 credits be a sign that it's not a real class where cheating is possible?