Should I retake Gen Bio I or wait until the Fall?

[seekfinelines]

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I'm so lost on what to do. I received a D in General Biology I lecture this fall. I passed all my other courses I took and got B's and A's in them. I feel like I'm such a disappointment for receiving that grade. I just don't know if I ruined my chances for getting into pharmacy school now.

The only General Biology I offered is 'online' around me because I live in the middle of no where right now and the private colleges are NOT offering it in the Spring. I really want to get into Wayne or University of Michigan and I'm wanting to apply for Fall 2014. I talked to a few colleges and they sounded like it was okay to take the course online because my lab was in seat and a completely different class... I just don't really want to take it online! I hate online classes.

In the summer none of the schools are offering General Biology except at this state college and the professor that teaches it has a very low pass rate.

What should I do? Wait until the Fall to take it again? Or just heck with it and retake it online at a 4-year institute because that's ALL they offer in the Spring?

The rest of my grades look like this -

Biochemistry - Take in the Fall
Genetics - Take in the Fall
Cell Biology - Take in the Spring
Gen Chem I - A
General Chem I Lab - A
General Chem II - A
General Chem II Lab - A
Gen Bio I - D
Gen Bio I Lab - B
General Bio II - B
General Bio II Lab - C
Microbiology - C
Microbiology Lab - B
A&P I - B
A&P II - B
Calculus - A
Statistics - F (I didn't actually care at this time and just signed up for it without showing up. ugh.) Retook it and received a D, then I will be retaking in the Spring.
Physics I - C
Physics II - F (retaking it in the Spring. Again it was the same didn't show up for the class because I was depressed, not caring about school and my career choice back then was different before making my mind up on what I was wanting to do.)
Physics I Lab - A
Physics II Lab - A
Organic Chemistry - A
Organic Chemistry I Lab - C
Organic Chemistry II - A
Organic Chemistry II Lab - A

My social sciences, humanities, and english courses are A's and I have a bachelors and loads of extracurriculars like starting a club, being in like 3 clubs, doing volunteer experience for the community, and worked in a pharmacy for over 5 years.

 

[bahmed816]

Your grades are pretty good except for a few bumps here and there but thats how it is for everyone. For myself personally, in order to stay on track I dont retake classes until I am done with whatever classes I needed to take so i'm not set back.

I would take it in the fall, but that would give you 3 labs. Can you fill the 4th class with a blowoff class? or no class at all?

 

[seekfinelines]

I'll probably take it again in the fall. I'm just worried the adcom's will ride me off because of that bump with General Biology. I just want to be perfect, but I have to realize there is no perfect candidate is there? I've yet to even take the PCAT either. I have 26 credit hours between here and my summer classes so maybe I should just retake it with the professor I had gotten the D from. I passed his General Biology II class though. So all hope isn't lost.

The school I'm taking classes from does 6 weeks per session. So I'll never have 5 classes running straight into each other. So taking the labs and the lectures won't kill me. But I need to still take American Government was going to take that in the summer as a GPA boaster at a community college incase I only get a B or C in Physics II. I suck at Physics.

 

[smercer]

If you can get A's in your 3000 and 4000 level courses that will help out a lot. That way they can see that you can handle tougher material.

A few bad grades wont kill you, however, you need to be sure that it does not become a reoccurring trend. You can write off a bad semester or two due to personal issues, but if it keeps happening it will be an issue for them.