In desperate need of help :(

[Virtualgirl]

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So, I am currently attending the Univeristy of Washington Seattle and my dream job has always been to be Allopathic medicine. I am having a really hard time in my physics class right now, however, and am most likely going to fail it 🙁. Are my chances totally shot if I end up failing it even if I retake the class and do better? And getting a cum gpa of a 3.2 going to ruin my chances as well ?? There has to be med schools that aren't WAYY up there that accept lowerish gpa averages 🙁. I've even considered changing schools because the professors are HORRIBLE here I can barely understand them 🙁

 

[Morsetlis]

Withdraw before the F sticks.

You don't need to understand the professor if you can read powerpoint slides and the book.

 

[Catalystik]

I echo this. Withdraw. Don't destroy your GPA. If there are no other alternatives than your current teacher, take it at a community college over the summer. No matter how bad that looks, it's better than having to redeem an F.

Next time go to tutor sessions, go to the professor's office hours, do every problem in the back of the book.

Applying with a GPA of 3.2 is not a good thing. I won't even go there.

 

[flip26]

Drop the class immediately.

 

[EpiMan]

I agree. Drop the class or withdraw, whatever it takes. As someone who failed an undergrad science course and has gotten into med school, trust me, any effort is worth it if you can avoid that F.

 

[Virtualgirl]

Man, I think I screwed up majorly 🙁. Last quarter I took a computer science class for fun because I was a former Web Designer, but it was a lot of work and I needed to do well in my other class and used my only annual withdraw last quarter. NOT KNOWING that we only got 1 annual withdraw per quarter.....


So my next question is... Should I put it as pass fail credit so that it DOESNT affect my gpa, but shows n/c on my transcript... Or should I just take the grade I get and retake it next quarter and try to ace the test? There is a great teacher next quarter teaching so I should do ok I just really wasn't prepared for a fast paced class like this. I REALLY REALLY want this to work out I dont want to change career paths this is what I have always wanted to do. So ANY help advice would be VERY VERY much appreciated, even if it is brutally honest.

 

[Catalystik]

Converting to P/F is a good strategy, while trying to not fail it. Retake it next term for a grade. Is converting to an audited class an option?

 

[Virtualgirl]

My professor doesn't accept that I've already tried 🙁. About taking physics at a community college this summer would that look horrible even if I got a 4.0 in it? Im not sure how I feel about taking a prereq at a CC but if I do extremely well in it it wouldn't look bad would it?

 

[Catalystik]

It depends on the med school. It would be important to know the position of your favored med schools on CC credits. Lots of schools wouldn't care. But some do.

If you took it at the CC and didn't ace it, it wouldn't be good, though.

 

[indianjatt]

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[Catalystik]

She explained that she already used her allotment of Ws.

 

[jpatel]

Premed Student says angrily to physics professor: I dont even know why Physics is required to get into Medical school. I mean really when do you ever use physics in Medicine.

Physics Professor replies: The course is designed to keep idiots from applying to medical school.

thats a joke my friend told me and I lawled. I hope thats funny lol Its a joke. I hope I dont get banned for this.

Anyways, physics can be tough for certain students if they get too much into numbers and equations. I tutor students in physics and students quickly learn it when I give them example of how it relates it to real world examples. Equations like Vf = Vi + at and countless others we use in our everyday lives and do it in head but some students get lost. My advice to u is understand those equations not just plugging them in but know what they mean and how they relate to real world. If you fail to do that, it will just build up and u will be lost