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So here's my deal (and to anyone reading this, thank you for bearing with me)
I'm currently in my second yea. I'm about 3/5 of the way through my pre-req classes, scheduled to graduate on time and all that hooplah.
Current overall gpa: 3.45.
Current Science: somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. (My non-science is nearly a 4.0)
Research: Psychiatry research since start of this academic year and will continue through graduation (with publications)
Clinical: Volunteer with our school's affiliated hospital, and have shadowing
Other Extracurriculars: Mentor of autistic students, camp counselor for URM kids
Fun stuff (non-pre-medy): theater minor, stand-up comedy and I play racquetball
Now, I'm not making excuses. I go to the classic-stereotypical top 25 public school with your weeder pre-med classes that give out 10% A's and the likes. I'm not lazy. Anyone that knows me knows I bust my ass in all the competition. I accept that it is extremely difficult to pull the kind of grades needed for med school matriculation out of my school. Here's my question:
My school is known amongst its student for "killing" people's gpa's the first 2 years. Assuming a slight improvement in the remaining 40% of my pre-req's (mostly B's so far, a couple A's, one quarter of bad C's due to personal reasons) and performing well in my upper div's, which is the usual trend amongst science majors here since the classes stop trying to make us quit, WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO OFFSHOOT MY SLOW START?
Assuming I even hit 3.5+ territory in my science gpa, my pre-req classes will not be that high, and that's most important right? I'm already planning on apply end of my 4th year instead of end of my 3rd in order to get more science classes on my transcript, but am I just fighting an uphill battle? I'm honestly trying sooo damn hard to do well in my science classes but it's to the point where I'm consistently pulling B+ averages and the likes.
I'm currently in my second yea. I'm about 3/5 of the way through my pre-req classes, scheduled to graduate on time and all that hooplah.
Current overall gpa: 3.45.
Current Science: somewhere between 3.1 and 3.2. (My non-science is nearly a 4.0)
Research: Psychiatry research since start of this academic year and will continue through graduation (with publications)
Clinical: Volunteer with our school's affiliated hospital, and have shadowing
Other Extracurriculars: Mentor of autistic students, camp counselor for URM kids
Fun stuff (non-pre-medy): theater minor, stand-up comedy and I play racquetball
Now, I'm not making excuses. I go to the classic-stereotypical top 25 public school with your weeder pre-med classes that give out 10% A's and the likes. I'm not lazy. Anyone that knows me knows I bust my ass in all the competition. I accept that it is extremely difficult to pull the kind of grades needed for med school matriculation out of my school. Here's my question:
My school is known amongst its student for "killing" people's gpa's the first 2 years. Assuming a slight improvement in the remaining 40% of my pre-req's (mostly B's so far, a couple A's, one quarter of bad C's due to personal reasons) and performing well in my upper div's, which is the usual trend amongst science majors here since the classes stop trying to make us quit, WILL IT BE ENOUGH TO OFFSHOOT MY SLOW START?
Assuming I even hit 3.5+ territory in my science gpa, my pre-req classes will not be that high, and that's most important right? I'm already planning on apply end of my 4th year instead of end of my 3rd in order to get more science classes on my transcript, but am I just fighting an uphill battle? I'm honestly trying sooo damn hard to do well in my science classes but it's to the point where I'm consistently pulling B+ averages and the likes.
