Optometry School and Low GPA

[bluewaves23]

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I'm currently a Senior majoring in Business Administration, and well I had horrible study habits in my first 2 years of college. It was mainly due to lack of motivation and interest in anything. I was undecided for the first 2 years, and only went to college because my parents told me to. Adding this to my already high procrastination and lack of studying it resulted in my cumulative GPA becoming an outstanding 2.3 GPA. I eventually became more serious and decided I wanted to enter the Optometry field but still keep my business background since I'm so close to obtaining the degree. I've been taking extra science courses to be able to fulfill the prerequisites of optometry schools, and have received A's and B's in all of them. Unfortunately, these were after taking 60+ credits so the cumulative GPA has not moved much and getting to a 3.0 is near impossible even with all A's. I still need to take the OAT, but assuming I get a decent score on the test, am I still able to attend an optometry school?
I'm not sure of the exact science GPA, but this is what I have so far:

Calc I - B
Calc II - B+
Physics I - A
Physics II - B
Chem I -B+
Chem II - B+
Organic Chemistry I - A
Biology I - A
Anatomy - A

 

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Grades are looking good now! But I would suggest trying to pull your GPA up to a 2.8 minimum. I would highly recommend retaking classes that you did poorly in.

 

[Loptometriste]

Before you go write a check and sign up to retake Business 101, call an admissions department at an optometry school. Obviously, you're grades are showing an upward trend. If you are doing well in the sciences, you have the potential of doing quite well on the OAT to balance out the GPA. I know some schools look at the pre-req GPA as well. Get some experience shadowing and good LORs too. Some schools do accept lower than 3.0 GPA.