Is It Your Junior Year That Counts ???????

[Miss155]

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Hi

Which GPA does ADCOMS look at? Should you have done most of your advanced classes your junior year or is it known to mostly complete them your senior year? Thanks.

 

[TTSD]

Depends when you plan to graduate and apply. Junior year for most.. though 5 years is rapidly becoming the norm these days.

They also take into consideration that your freshman-sophomore years are really jerk-off years in the grand scheme of academia. Where you take your basic work. Junior and Senior years are when you should be pushing yourself in advanced courses and putting your balls to the wall.

 

[ESPNdeportes]

Hope it is, because my best two semesters so far have been my junior year.

 

[TTSD]

Originally posted by ESPNdeportes
Hope it is, because my best two semesters so far have been my junior year.

I mean.. come on.. if you were on the admissions committee.. who would you consider? The 4.0 student who stopped at ochem.. or the student who got off to a shaky start but gradually improved and by the time he was in advanced molecular biology he was kicking everyones butt and showed a stellar MCAT score to boot? Probably consider both.. but the point is you'd also be looking at the latter.

 

[edfig99]

I don't now what other committee members did, but I counted all years, as well as course load, undergrad and major..sometimes I looked at MCAT scores. i also looked at extracurriculars to see if someone was doing too much, or not enough outside of the classroom... Trends are definitely important though, so bombing a first semester and then showing progressive improvement to end up with decent grade would be looked upon favorably.