Last two years of college?

[stupid9234]

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I've had a terrible first two years as far as my GPA goes. I'm confident that I can and will have to get very solid numbers for the last two years of college. How much can my first two years be overlooked if I do well in my last two? I see people posting 3.5's and being shot down and this gets me pretty down as even if I got all As and not even A-s, the best I'm looking at is a 3.5.

 

[Boolean]

What's your cGPA and sGPA right now?

Which classes do you have left?

Is your major something biology related or is it engineering etc etc

These allow for a much better answer to your question.

 

[Espadaleader]

As long as you never went below 3.0 and If you can pull 3.8+ in all of your courses moving forward then no doors should be closed for you.

 

[Goro]

Lots of schools like upward trends.

I've had a terrible first two years as far as my GPA goes. I'm confident that I can and will have to get very solid numbers for the last two years of college. How much can my first two years be overlooked if I do well in my last two? I see people posting 3.5's and being shot down and this gets me pretty down as even if I got all As and not even A-s, the best I'm looking at is a 3.5.

 

[ThisCouldBeYou]

As long as you never went below 3.0 and If you can pull 3.8+ in all of your courses moving forward then no doors should be closed for you.

Yikes! I went down to a 2.9 in my freshman year. I've gotten to 3.8 several times, but that's not my final cum. Let's hope what Espadaleader writes here doesn't hold.

 

[ThisCouldBeYou]

Thanks gonnif. That semester, I was overloaded with courses that I thought were pre-med requirements. Turns out, I should have taken Stat instead of another Calc. In any case, it's not at all like me to get ulcers. I know there's nothing I can do about that.

 

[Soviet Poland]

Let me put it this way:

The grades you have are the grades you have. Your only options at this point are (1) turn it around, or (2) continue performing poorly. One of those is clearly the better option.

Forget the past. Take more science classes. Kick ass in those upper division science classes. Once you finally finish and know where you stand is when you can start planning whether you need more help (more effort on a higher MCAT or a SMP). But to answer your question, upward trends do look good. You can always explain a lack of maturity early on in college. As long as you can demonstrate that you've grown from that.

 

[stupid9234]

Thanks guys, it's hard not to get down. I'm not sure what I have science GPA wise, but it's way below 3.0. I'm looking to bring it up to a 3.0 after this summer and hopefully keep going up. The bad thing is, sophomore year was a bigger flop than freshman. Freshman I could not study because I had classes like Calculus 2/Government (had AP), freshman seminars (didn't read), Language (little work), and a Chemistry that wasn't too hard to cram to do average. Sophomore year I had all classes that required effort and I flopped big time.

 

[Espadaleader]

Yikes! I went down to a 2.9 in my freshman year. I've gotten to 3.8 several times, but that's not my final cum. Let's hope what Espadaleader writes here doesn't hold.

I don't have the final say lol. I am just an entering medical student. You probably would not have any issues getting into med school.