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Hi,
I'm from Canada and I was wondering how some of the high-tier medical schools calculate their GPA (ex. U Illinois, U Boston, Harvard U)
I know that at UWO here, they look at the best two years and at U of Ottawa they look at your top 3 years.
In American medical schools do they drop your lowest year? Or do they use your cGPA? Becuase if so then perhaps I should give up the medical school dream now since my first year was a 2.6 (becuase I was so lost and confused with what to do with 5 courses and I was just a mess that didn't know how to study in first year..huge mistake). In second year I boosted it to a 3.96 (HUGE DIFF, I know) but even still, averaging out the two doesn't bring me to a good GPA.
SO I was just wondering if it's worth trying for medicine anymore if they do calculate my 2.6 in?
SORRY FOR THE LONG POST
I'm from Canada and I was wondering how some of the high-tier medical schools calculate their GPA (ex. U Illinois, U Boston, Harvard U)
I know that at UWO here, they look at the best two years and at U of Ottawa they look at your top 3 years.
In American medical schools do they drop your lowest year? Or do they use your cGPA? Becuase if so then perhaps I should give up the medical school dream now since my first year was a 2.6 (becuase I was so lost and confused with what to do with 5 courses and I was just a mess that didn't know how to study in first year..huge mistake). In second year I boosted it to a 3.96 (HUGE DIFF, I know) but even still, averaging out the two doesn't bring me to a good GPA.
SO I was just wondering if it's worth trying for medicine anymore if they do calculate my 2.6 in?
SORRY FOR THE LONG POST