**Need HELP!! Low GPA/less pre-reqs!**

[skyblue2000]

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**Need help...BADLY!!**😕

I'm taking a fifth year and currently going into my fourth year. In both of the following two years, I plan on taking 90% course load....and I still have to do 3 pre-reqs (organic chem, bio, and physics).

I'm taking org chem in the upcoming year, so i'll have that by the time of applying..but I won't have bio or physics. Would not having those 2 pre-reqs, as well as taking a fifth year negatively affect my application?

I'm currently trying to petition to drop my bio because I got a C+ and don't want that on my transcript, so i'll have to re-take in 2010-2011. I have already taken biochem 1 and 2 though, so hopefully that would be make up for not having the bio pre-req at the time of applying...?


Thank YOU!!! 🙂

 

[rockaction]

So you're applying without physics 1 & 2? How do expect to do well on the MCAT without physics 1 & 2?

 

[shiftingmirage]

Technically, one does not need to have all the pre-reqs done when they apply, but does when they matriculate. I agree with the above poster though, where in your timeline do you plan on taking the MCAT? Perhaps you can do a pre-req over the summer. I took a year of physics over the summer, it was a great decision.

 

[skyblue2000]

Technically, one does not need to have all the pre-reqs done when they apply, but does when they matriculate. I agree with the above poster though, where in your timeline do you plan on taking the MCAT? Perhaps you can do a pre-req over the summer. I took a year of physics over the summer, it was a great decision.

I'm going to take the MCAT next June. So that is true I won't have Physics 1 and 2 before doing the MCAT. I would take it in the upcoming year with organic chem but the classes conflict. So I decided to take org chem first, and then take physics next year. Hopefully my petition to withdraw from biology is granted, and then I would take biology as well.

I was going to take the princetonreview. I'm just hoping that through that practice i'll have enough to do well on the MCAT...

 

[skyblue2000]

Or would it be more wise to take physics 1 and 2 this year, and then take org chem next year because physics is 50% of PS, but org chem is only about 20% of BS?

 

[FirefighterDoc]

The pre-reqs are not just there to be accepted into med school, theyre there to prepare you for the MCAT.

Some people have a hard enough time with the MCAT even after having taken all the pre-reqs and doing princeton/kaplan reviews.

I think just about everyone here on SDN would recommend putting your MCAT off until after you've taken your pre-reqs, but honestly its your life and ultimately you can do whatever you want. Just know that it wouldn't be recommended.