If someone did poorly their first semester of college but starting freshman year spring term, they stated A's and B's. Would you have to explain during your PS or interview what happened?
If someone did poorly their first semester of college but starting freshman year spring term, they stated A's and B's. Would you have to explain during your PS or interview what happened?
A lot of people mess up their freshman year. Try not to dwell on it. It's probably not worthy of being in the PS and only talk about it if they ask at the interview stage.
It will show you learned from your mistake. If the low grades were in pre-reqs you will have to retake them. Just try to maintain a good GPA from this point on (national average of accepted students is around 3.5-3.6).
Adcomms will you give a break - but you will have to worry about programs that automatically give out secondaries or interviews based on GPA/MCAT cutoffs - those three grades may pull you below a lot of cutoffs that will either keep you from getting secondaries/interviews or will make you late in getting them.
I would talk to a premed advisor at your school to get a better sense of what your transcript will look like if you retake the class.
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