Low sophomore year GPA

[About28]

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So I was recently looking at my AMCAS from last cycle and I saw an issue that I hadn't seen before.

My overall c/sGPA is decent to apply to medical school (3.68) but my GPA for sophomore year is lower than the rest. Here's the breakdown,

Freshman Year
cGPA: 3.8
sGPA: 3.8

Sophomore Year
cGPA: 3.37
sGPA: 3.29

Junior Year
cGPA: 3.82
sGPA: 3.82

Senior Year (Projected but this won't change much, I know my grades more or less)
cGPA: 3.72
sGPA: 3.71

The reason for this is that all the courses I took in freshman year were classes I'd had before, so I didn't really hit the high school to college adjustment period until my sophomore year, and I had some family stuff going on at the same time.

Is this considered inconsistent? Thanks for any input

 

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[OneTwoThreeFour]

So I was recently looking at my AMCAS from last cycle and I saw an issue that I hadn't seen before.

My overall c/sGPA is decent to apply to medical school (3.68) but my GPA for sophomore year is lower than the rest. Here's the breakdown,

Freshman Year
cGPA: 3.8
sGPA: 3.8

Sophomore Year
cGPA: 3.37
sGPA: 3.29

Junior Year
cGPA: 3.82
sGPA: 3.82

Senior Year (Projected but this won't change much, I know my grades more or less)
cGPA: 3.72
sGPA: 3.71

The reason for this is that all the courses I took in freshman year were classes I'd had before, so I didn't really hit the high school to college adjustment period until my sophomore year, and I had some family stuff going on at the same time.

Is this considered inconsistent? Thanks for any input

Honestly, I think you'd rather have adcoms see it as inconsistency rather than telling them you had already taken all those freshman year courses

 

[Catalystik]

So I was recently looking at my AMCAS from last cycle and I saw an issue that I hadn't seen before.

My overall c/sGPA is decent to apply to medical school (3.68) but my GPA for sophomore year is lower than the rest. Here's the breakdown,

Freshman Year
cGPA: 3.8
sGPA: 3.8

Sophomore Year
cGPA: 3.37
sGPA: 3.29

Junior Year
cGPA: 3.82
sGPA: 3.82

Senior Year (Projected but this won't change much, I know my grades more or less)
cGPA: 3.72
sGPA: 3.71

The reason for this is that all the courses I took in freshman year were classes I'd had before, so I didn't really hit the high school to college adjustment period until my sophomore year, and I had some family stuff going on at the same time.

Is this considered inconsistent? Thanks for any input

Since you'll have two years of excellent, consistent performance listed on the transcript since you took the dive, because your overall cGPA is decent, and because you will no doubt write an explanatory essay on Secondaries, adcomms will have any concerns alleviated.