Please i need your help.

[Sadeeq_19]

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Actually i'm writing this for my friend. She is a freshmen at my state school. She has had problems adjusting to life in the U.S and college life itself. She ended up with 2.6 g.p.a her freshmen year fall semester. Now she is really depressed and not sure whether she wants to apply to med school at all. I know she can do, because she got 3.8 the spring semester of freshmen year. Does she have a chance? Your advice is always appreciated.

 

[nmehta]

It is much too early to determine one's application chances, but a 3.8 to offset the 2.6 is certainly a great asset. Encourage your friend that her destiny has not been set, and that she can do whatever she dreams if she puts her mind to it. If she keeps up that 3.8, she should be fine.

 

[Nanook]

If your friend can keep her GPA high, she should have little or nothing to worry about. Most admissions committees will understand if she had trouble at the outset, and will see that she overcame those obstacles, which will be to her credit.

Case in point: My freshman year was about a 2.1. I graduated with a 2.86 overall. However, I came back and had a 3.85 master's degree, and a 4.0 post-bacc. I am applying this year, and though I have not been accepted yet, I have had several interviews.

However, if medicine is not something she really wants to go into, well, then.....

But I'll let her make that decision.