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Hi SDN. I just found your site online and thought maybe someone out there could give me some honest advice?
I go to Harvard. My freshman yr. I got messed up pretty bad from some stuff at home and did really poorly, as in 4 F's and 2 W's. Harvard basically told me my punishment was that I needed to take a year off and get my head straight on before I come back. Further, when I come back, I have to do my degree through the night school.
I spent the year working with an ambulance service in Chicago, and took a bunch of classes as a non-degree student at U Chicago. Got my butt on Prozac and it saved my life (literally and academically). I did really well at U Chicago, a 3.7 w/great letters of rec.
If I pull a 3.5 every semester here on out until I graduate, which is realistic, I can have about a 3.1 or 3.2 cumulative GPA by the time I graduate.
Of the Premeds, I've only taken Bio and Chem so far, so I have a couple to go. I'm also working at Harvard med as a research assistant to a great professor out here.
I want to go to med school (allopathic) very badly. I've got motivation to get my butt in gear, some reasonable work exp., and still a year and a half to go til I graduate. Further, I have only taken Bio so far, so I still have the other 3 premeds to go and the MCAT.
I AM going to go to a U.S. allopathic med school, and I'll work as hard as I have to for as long as I have to for this to happen. All that said, I have 3 questions to help me direct my path a little.
1. With a 3.1 or 3.2 w/very steep upward trend, do I stand a reasonable shot at an MD program?
2. If #1 is no, then what would be the BEST and MOST PRAGMATIC way to get into a good med. school considering my situation: post-bacc or masters?
3. Finally, one of my F's freshman year was in
chemistry. I retook the class and got a B. Do they average out on my Amcas Gpa?
Sorry this was so long, and thanks for the patience with me.
- BB.
I go to Harvard. My freshman yr. I got messed up pretty bad from some stuff at home and did really poorly, as in 4 F's and 2 W's. Harvard basically told me my punishment was that I needed to take a year off and get my head straight on before I come back. Further, when I come back, I have to do my degree through the night school.
I spent the year working with an ambulance service in Chicago, and took a bunch of classes as a non-degree student at U Chicago. Got my butt on Prozac and it saved my life (literally and academically). I did really well at U Chicago, a 3.7 w/great letters of rec.
If I pull a 3.5 every semester here on out until I graduate, which is realistic, I can have about a 3.1 or 3.2 cumulative GPA by the time I graduate.
Of the Premeds, I've only taken Bio and Chem so far, so I have a couple to go. I'm also working at Harvard med as a research assistant to a great professor out here.
I want to go to med school (allopathic) very badly. I've got motivation to get my butt in gear, some reasonable work exp., and still a year and a half to go til I graduate. Further, I have only taken Bio so far, so I still have the other 3 premeds to go and the MCAT.
I AM going to go to a U.S. allopathic med school, and I'll work as hard as I have to for as long as I have to for this to happen. All that said, I have 3 questions to help me direct my path a little.
1. With a 3.1 or 3.2 w/very steep upward trend, do I stand a reasonable shot at an MD program?
2. If #1 is no, then what would be the BEST and MOST PRAGMATIC way to get into a good med. school considering my situation: post-bacc or masters?
3. Finally, one of my F's freshman year was in
chemistry. I retook the class and got a B. Do they average out on my Amcas Gpa?
Sorry this was so long, and thanks for the patience with me.
- BB.