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are there any lower tier schools that can be real forgiving to early undergrad grades?
williamChenry said:are there any lower tier schools that can be real forgiving to early undergrad grades?
how forgiving is REAL forgiving and what is the cum. up to now?williamChenry said:are there any lower tier schools that can be real forgiving to early undergrad grades?
DO is probably your best shot short term. If you really want an MD, a master's or post bacc of ~2 years would probably be required.williamChenry said:Well I was at 3.0 after my first year, then the 2nd year , towards the beginning-middle of the semester, I had to start working more for financial reasons, so I decided to withdraw and continue next semester, ...well what I didn't find out until the end of the semester was that 3 of the 4 teachers I had felt it was too late to withdraw and gave me F's..and only one of them gave me a W....so 3 F's probably does hell to 3.0, but it is partly my fault because I should have found out each teachers policy on withdrawals.
I'm currently retaking those courses I got the F's in and doing well,..I just started taking my General Chemistry this semester, getting an A so far, and taking Physics in the summer....so any advice ? I'm willing to do a DO school, but I feel an MD school would give me greater options working around the area I live, New York.
Flopotomist said:One other thought - schools work on "petitions" if you have some valid and compelling reason why you had to drop out of school - you can petition the Dean to have those F's converted to W's. You may also be able to talk to the individual teachers to get the F's converted into incompletes. I would try to get those OFF your transcript, and if you can't do that, THEN deal with what to do. Good luck!
Flopotomist said:One other thought - schools work on "petitions" if you have some valid and compelling reason why you had to drop out of school - you can petition the Dean to have those F's converted to W's. You may also be able to talk to the individual teachers to get the F's converted into incompletes. I would try to get those OFF your transcript, and if you can't do that, THEN deal with what to do. Good luck!
williamChenry said:are there any lower tier schools that can be real forgiving to early undergrad grades?
I know someone in a mid-tier med school who had a full-out F (with no real excuse); another who had a couple of D's(also no real excuse). But their overall GPAs were decent. You're right though: multiple F's and you'll probably get into trouble.OSUdoc08 said:Not D's or F's.
SuperTrooper said:I know someone in a mid-tier med school who had a full-out F (with no real excuse); another who had a couple of D's(also no real excuse). But their overall GPAs were decent. You're right though: multiple F's and you'll probably get into trouble.
OSUdoc08 said:It's likely that those with D's & F's had a compensatory MCAT.