question about DO admission requirements...

[RichieRich00]

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I'm looking to eventually apply to NYCOM down the road, under admissions, it says :

Biology – 8 semester hrs. including a basic course in general biology or general zoology (lecture and laboratory)

Question is that I have taken Bio 101 (4 semester hours) and Zoology (another 4, but did quite poorly in that) , but this semester I am taking the 2nd part of Bio, which is Bio 102 (4 sem. hours)

which gives me a total of 12 sem. hours....since ill already have 8 sem hours from bio 101 and 102, do i have to re-take that zoology over again in which i had a poor grade? any help/advice would be appreciated.

thank you

 

[Trevelyan]

I'm looking to eventually apply to NYCOM down the road, under admissions, it says :

Biology – 8 semester hrs. including a basic course in general biology or general zoology (lecture and laboratory)

Question is that I have taken Bio 101 (4 semester hours) and Zoology (another 4, but did quite poorly in that) , but this semester I am taking the 2nd part of Bio, which is Bio 102 (4 sem. hours)

which gives me a total of 12 sem. hours....since ill already have 8 sem hours from bio 101 and 102, do i have to re-take that zoology over again in which i had a poor grade? any help/advice would be appreciated.

thank you

You do not HAVE to, but depending on how poor the grade was, you may want to consider taking it over again.

 

[RichieRich00]

real poor.. D+ , i had a bad case of Mono halfway through that semester and had to miss 2 weeks....

so there's no way that grade wouldnt be included? is it EVERY class you've taken, no matter the relevance?

 

[Trevelyan]

real poor.. D+ , i had a bad case of Mono halfway through that semester and had to miss 2 weeks....

so there's no way that grade wouldnt be included? is it EVERY class you've taken, no matter the relevance?

Yes, it is every class. In this case, I would recommend taking the class again.

 

[RichieRich00]

thank you so much for responding twice....last question for you, or whomever...will med schools automatically frown upon retaking a few classes i did poorly in? or will it come across as determined? because there were a handul of classes i got C's in way back in my freshman year of college when I still hadn't grown up. Can/Should I take these over and everything will be in 'good-status' or is too late because they will see i've taken too many classes over.

sorry for the all the questions, ..just a hectic/scary time trying to figure out the rest of my life.

 

[toothless rufus]

My opinion is to retake any required classes with low grades, and don't bother repeating anything else. If you want to show more good grades, take some recommended upper-division chemistry or biology courses.