My Grades This Semester...With Some Questions

[tharealest]

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So I think I am overreacting to this, but I'm an engineering major doing premed, and I got a 4.0 freshman year. This semester, the fall semester of my sophomore year, I got the following:

Differential Eqs w/Linear Algebra (4) A-
Assembly Language Programming (5) B
Circuits 1 (5) B
Prin. of Macroeconomics (4) A

which brought my cumulative GPA down from 4.0 to 3.78. First of all, will adcoms view this as a downwards trend, since I didn't perform well as I did freshman year, when I took classes like calc, physics, and chem? Or are these grades not that bad for them to view them as bad?

Also, I was thinking about using my third year to take all my neccessary premed classes, like 2 bio classes, 2 o-chem, 2 english, etc... Or should I integrate my premed classes along with my engineering classes during the third and fourth years? I'm afraid if I do that, my grades will fall even more and I won't have enough time to study and do clinical exp stuff. It will take me 5 years to graduate anyways in engineering and premed, so I was wondering what I should do. I would also have to apply a year earlier than when I graduate and take the MCATs before that right?

Basically, I think I am overreacting to my grades this semester because they went down, but that was the only way they could have gone. Will the adcoms weigh the grades of my premed classes more than the grades in my engineering classes?

Thanks.

 

[avinash]

So I think I am overreacting to this, but I'm an engineering major doing premed, and I got a 4.0 freshman year. This semester, the fall semester of my sophomore year, I got the following:

Differential Eqs w/Linear Algebra (4) A-
Assembly Language Programming (5) B
Circuits 1 (5) B
Prin. of Macroeconomics (4) A

which brought my cumulative GPA down from 4.0 to 3.78. First of all, will adcoms view this as a downwards trend, since I didn't perform well as I did freshman year, when I took classes like calc, physics, and chem? Or are these grades not that bad for them to view them as bad?

Also, I was thinking about using my third year to take all my neccessary premed classes, like 2 bio classes, 2 o-chem, 2 english, etc... Or should I integrate my premed classes along with my engineering classes during the third and fourth years? I'm afraid if I do that, my grades will fall even more and I won't have enough time to study and do clinical exp stuff. It will take me 5 years to graduate anyways in engineering and premed, so I was wondering what I should do. I would also have to apply a year earlier than when I graduate and take the MCATs before that right?

Basically, I think I am overreacting to my grades this semester because they went down, but that was the only way they could have gone. Will the adcoms weigh the grades of my premed classes more than the grades in my engineering classes?

Thanks.

Umm since your a engineering major i think you are overreacting a little..it is a difficult major. U got a A A- and 2 b's? thats pretty good. Because you are graduating in 5 years i think its ok if you shove the pre reqs in the 3rd and 4 rth years. U can always apply to med school after you graduate and you can take the mcats after you graduate aswell. But you have to take the MCAT before you apply to med school. I dont think med schools are going to view the grades as bad, i mean its not like you got D's and F's.

 

[futuremsfdoc]

my brother was tellin me that at duke the avg. biomedical engineering gpa is 3.2 and of those who are premed, 100 percent get in (nearly all to their top choice too). engineering is tough. 3.8 is good. actually, it's really good no matter what your major, but it's especially good in engineering.

downward trend, shmownward trend. everyone's gpa falls sophomore year. don't worry about it.

 

[tharealest]

bump

 

[beep]

don't worry, your grades are pretty good and, to the moderate-to-low extent they are bad, one semester isn't a trend yet.

 

[khan786]

Don't worry about getting B's. You did fantastic the rest of your academic career, don't stress out dude!

 

[45408]

Nah, that's not a downward trend.