Please help a panicking pre-med!

[TheQuestioner]

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[AlteredScale]

I have just finished up the first quarter of my 2nd year at UCLA and my heart just broke with the release of grades. I aced my first organic chemistry class as well as my GE, but then got a C in multivariable calculus. Good news is that was the last math class I ever need to take, but now my cumulative GPA is sitting a at 3.617. Is it too early to panic? What should be a realistic goal for my GPA by the end of my 3rd year?

Sorry if my questions are vague or worded incorrectly, it's just this is my first C and now my GPA's a 3.617 instead of the 3.7 I previously hoped for. So I am freaking out!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙂

It's never too early to panic.

But this isn't something you should be panicking about. Your GPA is fine where it's at. Just do well on the MCAT too.

 

[FutureOncologist]

3.61 is nothing to panic about. You have 4 more semesters to pull your GPA back up and a C will not kill your app to medical schools.

 

[Shirafune]

As others have said, your GPA is fine. Just keep it up and work on the rest of your application.

 

[Catalystik]

I have just finished up the first quarter of my 2nd year at UCLA and my heart just broke with the release of grades. I aced my first organic chemistry class as well as my GE, but then got a C in multivariable calculus. Good news is that was the last math class I ever need to take, but now my cumulative GPA is sitting a at 3.617. Is it too early to panic? What should be a realistic goal for my GPA by the end of my 3rd year?

Sorry if my questions are vague or worded incorrectly, it's just this is my first C and now my GPA's a 3.617 instead of the 3.7 I previously hoped for. So I am freaking out!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Do not freak out. Do not panic. All is well. A good goal for end of junior year would be at least this year's matriculant averages of cGPA 3.69 and BCPM GPA of 3.63.