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On a number or secondaries, we have the option of telling the school whatever else we think they should know.
The trend in my overall GPA for college in 4 years is approximately, 3.7, 3.6, 3.2, 3.8 at a top ten school.
Basically, my junior year, I was taking mostly upper level bio classes and had started my first real research project for a highly demanding lab. I would never write this in an essay, but I pretty much didn't think I wanted to go to med school and didn't give a **** about my classes. Anyway, I obviously didn't do so well and ended up with a C in one of the classes. My overall BCPM is a 3.3 and cumulative is a 3.55. I just took the MCAT and have no idea how I did.
Should I bother explaining this trend? I did much better my senior year (also had research and upper level classes) so I hope that will redeem me a bit. I don't want there to be this weird hole in my app, like what went wrong here?! but I also don't want to draw attention to something that might be common? On the Jefferson secondary, we only get a little bit of space to write about ourselves, should I stick to talking about why I want to go to school there rather than make excuses for the GPA trend?
The trend in my overall GPA for college in 4 years is approximately, 3.7, 3.6, 3.2, 3.8 at a top ten school.
Basically, my junior year, I was taking mostly upper level bio classes and had started my first real research project for a highly demanding lab. I would never write this in an essay, but I pretty much didn't think I wanted to go to med school and didn't give a **** about my classes. Anyway, I obviously didn't do so well and ended up with a C in one of the classes. My overall BCPM is a 3.3 and cumulative is a 3.55. I just took the MCAT and have no idea how I did.
Should I bother explaining this trend? I did much better my senior year (also had research and upper level classes) so I hope that will redeem me a bit. I don't want there to be this weird hole in my app, like what went wrong here?! but I also don't want to draw attention to something that might be common? On the Jefferson secondary, we only get a little bit of space to write about ourselves, should I stick to talking about why I want to go to school there rather than make excuses for the GPA trend?