Perspective please!

[lifesurfeit]

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I'm a sophomore at a respectable state college that has a liberal arts focus. My current GPA is a 3.33.
Freshman fall cGPA: 3.59
Freshman spring cGPA: 3.15
EC's: part time job as a student ambassador for a big name electronics company, secretary for student diversity group on campus, treasurer for college safe ride program (Next semester I'm planning to start volunteering at the local hospital and potentially working to get into their scribe program.)

For this year's fall semester I think I'll end up with a 3.18 GPA realistically. I know to get into med school I need to work on at least a 3.7 GPA. I should work harder on studying but I'm having some trouble following through in reality. Studying is not hard for me but my issue is not taking enough time to do it. I'm just kinda losing faith in my ability to achieve right now and whether or not I should even bother trying for med school. I'm still undecided on my major but there is a good Neuroscience program here. Just need a bit of a realistic perspective on what I should do from here.

 

[aSagacious]

Moving to the 'what are my chances' forum.

 

[TropicalKitty]

Well, I won't talk about how you need a better gpa to be more confident in your potential apps in a few years - you already know that.

So, what I'm assuming is that you want some advice on how to study better, choose a major, and just get your stuff together.

Find what interests you. Yes, all of us had to take classes we weren't always thrilled with, but that's how school (and life) go. You didn't say what your schedule is like, but one thing might be that you are taking too many classes. You're a sophmore, so you have plenty of time to figure out your future educational goals (med school, grad school, whatever). What you should focus on now is making the best out of your undergraduate education. Is neuro what you want to study or are you mentioning it because you think it is what med schools want to see? You can look all around SDN and find students of all different backgrounds - music, physics, philosophy. I'll re-emphasize, choose a program that fits your desires.

Anyway, you already said you know what your problem is with studying, so work on that. Make yourself a studying schedule, for example. I'd love to give you a magic answer, but I really think you know what you need to do to make the grades you think you should be getting. 🙂