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Nobody has really been able to assess my situation for me...
I started out as a business major. I was not motivated by my classes, I hated the subject, but it took me two years for me to come to my senses. So my grades for classes like Economics, Management, Computer Sciences etc. were mainly C's. I barely scraped by.
After I realized that I wanted to pursue a degree in Neuroscience, things changed for me. I started to buckle down, and my science grades were actually quite solid. Most of my science grades range from B+, A-, A. One or two B's in there.
Now, I know that medical schools will look both at my overall GPA and my science GPA. My question is:
1. Will my poor GPA from non-science classes greatly hurt my chances of getting into a U.S. allopathic school?
2. What can I do to improve my grades in those non-science classes?
From what I've been reading, post-bac programs are mainly geared towards students who had poor science GPA's, not poor humanities GPA's. So, what are my options (if any) to improve those grades? Can I retake some of those Econ, philosophy, business classes at a community college? Is that a viable option?
In my opinion, this is what is going to give an admissions office a hard time. Though I'm sure they will give me points for a stronger science GPA, and improving my overall GPA with time, I still fear that I will not make the initial cut because my overall GPA is not very competitive.
Any advice at all would be very much appreciated.
Happy holidays to you all!
I started out as a business major. I was not motivated by my classes, I hated the subject, but it took me two years for me to come to my senses. So my grades for classes like Economics, Management, Computer Sciences etc. were mainly C's. I barely scraped by.
After I realized that I wanted to pursue a degree in Neuroscience, things changed for me. I started to buckle down, and my science grades were actually quite solid. Most of my science grades range from B+, A-, A. One or two B's in there.
Now, I know that medical schools will look both at my overall GPA and my science GPA. My question is:
1. Will my poor GPA from non-science classes greatly hurt my chances of getting into a U.S. allopathic school?
2. What can I do to improve my grades in those non-science classes?
From what I've been reading, post-bac programs are mainly geared towards students who had poor science GPA's, not poor humanities GPA's. So, what are my options (if any) to improve those grades? Can I retake some of those Econ, philosophy, business classes at a community college? Is that a viable option?
In my opinion, this is what is going to give an admissions office a hard time. Though I'm sure they will give me points for a stronger science GPA, and improving my overall GPA with time, I still fear that I will not make the initial cut because my overall GPA is not very competitive.
Any advice at all would be very much appreciated.
Happy holidays to you all!