I need guidance.

[Chemmy1128]

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I'm currently a student at a community college. My GPA is 2.9/4.0 and my grades for many of my Science classes are average. I only did well in gen Chem. I'm currently taking Organic Chem and I'm failing the course. I still have two exams to go through and maybe get at least a B- or a C+. I want to get into medical school, but people around me are discouraging me. They are saying how I'm just dreaming of fantasies and how I won't get it with in the situation I'm in. I've talked to my advisor and I'm very sure that this career path is the correct path for me. I just need guidance from you guys. What should I do? I'm starting to get depressed from all of these bad grades and negativity around me. I have friends who are also in the pre-Med track but they talk behind my back about my grades and now most of them don't even want to associate with anymore. I need help... please. Thank you..

 

[Dr. Stalker]

OP - you're not the first person, nor the last person, to have these issues.

Sorry to hear about all the negativity.

The best approach is sometimes to focus on the short-term goals. Instead of focusing on your GPA not being good enough for MD/DO, and your entire career not ending up where you want, etc., just look at the short term: Organic Chemistry. Its not easy to detach ourselves, but just try to relax and focus on the upcoming exams. Work on getting A's in the rest of your CC classes and transferring to a well-respected 4 year university. There, you can really excel and get high grades on the upper division sciences. This will help bring up your GPA, and is known as an upward trend. Upward trends are appreciated by medical schools, even if the composite GPA isn't as high as they would like it to be. Don't worry, step by step you can improve and get there.

Your adviser can **** off. All pre-med advisers suck imo.

As far as your pre-med friends, that's the problem with having pre-med friends. They either talk behind your back about your poor performance, or talk behind your back bashing you for beating them on exams. That's rough. How close are these friends? Are they just acquaintances you sit in lecture with? Or are these folks you go to chill with? If they're the former, just focus on yourself and sit elsewhere and things will pan out.

 

[LizzyM]

I will be blunt, without a major shift in your performance, you will not get into medical school no matter how much you think that the path is the correct one for you.

If it is not too late to drop Organic Chem, drop it and come back to it after you learn how to study and can do it well. Do not dig yourself into a deeper hole.

I studied Organic Chem sometime in the last century so I'm not going to give you advice on how to study aside from saying that you should get some advice here about Anki, instructor's office hours, a study group, Kahn Academy or whatever it takes for you to learn to think about organic chemistry in an analytical way. If you can't drop the course, figure out how to maximize your grade this term and to do even better in science courses going forward.

 

[libertyyne]

I'm currently a student at a community college. My GPA is 2.9/4.0 and my grades for many of my Science classes are average. I only did well in gen Chem. I'm currently taking Organic Chem and I'm failing the course. I still have two exams to go through and maybe get at least a B- or a C+. I want to get into medical school, but people around me are discouraging me. They are saying how I'm just dreaming of fantasies and how I won't get it with in the situation I'm in. I've talked to my advisor and I'm very sure that this career path is the correct path for me. I just need guidance from you guys. What should I do? I'm starting to get depressed from all of these bad grades and negativity around me. I have friends who are also in the pre-Med track but they talk behind my back about my grades and now most of them don't even want to associate with anymore. I need help... please. Thank you..

Step 1: find out why you aren't getting good grades.
Step 2: fix the problem.
Step 3 : start getting good grades.

There is not a lot of guidance needed.