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Hello! Nice to meet you all! Thank you everyone for your help last December (when I was sitting at a 2.67). I'm happy to say that I buckled down and now my cGPA is 3.54 (I know it's still mediocre but come on, I was at a 2.67 aha).
My friend and I were talking about our majors yesterday which brought up several questions. First of all, I'm a biology and an East Asian studies double major with possibly a bioethics minor. The minor was pretty unintentional--I took it out of interest but I ended up with enough credits to minor in it as long as I have 1.0 more credits.
The thing is, I know med schools don't care about your major but my friend pointed out that maybe admissions will think I majored in EAS because I was better in the arts (it wasn't intentional but I did end up getting much better marks for my arts courses than the sciences) and that I should focus on raising my science grades more since part of the reason why I got that 2.67 was because I failed first year calculus and got a C in ochem. I don't plan on retaking that calc course (since it's not required for my major) but I know I will take more chemistry courses since I need it. Is this true? Will they look at me unfavourably if it's only arts courses bringing my average up? (That being said, my biology marks were fine).
Secondly, I've been very fortunate to have a family who can support my education for as long as I want and my hunger for knowledge was actually one of the reasons why I chose science in the first place. I'm a bio/EAS major as of now but I would love to go back to school and learn compsci/astrophysics too. My dad doesn't care when and how I do it and if things keep going the way they are, I'll graduate before 4 years (more like 3.5)(since I'm planning on going to summer school every year and the bio/eas major doesn't require *too* many courses). Would it be okay for me to stay for maybe 5 years and take a few more courses I'm interested in? Or is that a foolish idea and I should just apply as soon as I'm ready? I'm saying this without really caring for my GPA because my school caps the number of first-year courses you can take so any first-year astrophysics/CS course I take will just be on my transcript, but it won't be counted in my GPA no matter how high/low it is. If I do well, I can continue and major in then and if I don't do well, I can just stop after the beginner courses and apply to med school without worrying about the consequences.
Such simple questions but so much writing, haha. Thanks for reading and hope everyone has a great day
My friend and I were talking about our majors yesterday which brought up several questions. First of all, I'm a biology and an East Asian studies double major with possibly a bioethics minor. The minor was pretty unintentional--I took it out of interest but I ended up with enough credits to minor in it as long as I have 1.0 more credits.
The thing is, I know med schools don't care about your major but my friend pointed out that maybe admissions will think I majored in EAS because I was better in the arts (it wasn't intentional but I did end up getting much better marks for my arts courses than the sciences) and that I should focus on raising my science grades more since part of the reason why I got that 2.67 was because I failed first year calculus and got a C in ochem. I don't plan on retaking that calc course (since it's not required for my major) but I know I will take more chemistry courses since I need it. Is this true? Will they look at me unfavourably if it's only arts courses bringing my average up? (That being said, my biology marks were fine).
Secondly, I've been very fortunate to have a family who can support my education for as long as I want and my hunger for knowledge was actually one of the reasons why I chose science in the first place. I'm a bio/EAS major as of now but I would love to go back to school and learn compsci/astrophysics too. My dad doesn't care when and how I do it and if things keep going the way they are, I'll graduate before 4 years (more like 3.5)(since I'm planning on going to summer school every year and the bio/eas major doesn't require *too* many courses). Would it be okay for me to stay for maybe 5 years and take a few more courses I'm interested in? Or is that a foolish idea and I should just apply as soon as I'm ready? I'm saying this without really caring for my GPA because my school caps the number of first-year courses you can take so any first-year astrophysics/CS course I take will just be on my transcript, but it won't be counted in my GPA no matter how high/low it is. If I do well, I can continue and major in then and if I don't do well, I can just stop after the beginner courses and apply to med school without worrying about the consequences.
Such simple questions but so much writing, haha. Thanks for reading and hope everyone has a great day