Staying an extra year in college to boost GPA...Advice?

[om1man]

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Hi!

I am currently a senior at a top 10 school studying biomedical engineering. I bombed my first two years of college because I honestly partied too much and just didn't try (like 2.0 GPA bad) and am paying for it down the road. I had a 2.3 GPA one year ago, and with a ton of hard work I got a 4.0 over the past 2 semesters (taking all upper level science and engineering courses) and made dean's list for the first time. I currently have a 2.7, and with this trend I could graduate with a 3.0-3.2 and try to make it into an SMP. My MCAT practice score is a 510 averaged from 7 tests (am taking officially this summer).

I have decided to stay at my school an extra year and prove that I can handle hard coursework - what classes would medical schools like to see? I currently have human genetics, metabolism, prob/stat, chromosomes, etc. Should I retake orgo 1 (C) which I took as a freshman as I know I can get an A/A- if I retook it?

Any advice? Thank you!!

 

[Forever Geebs]

Don’t retake prereqs if you earned a C or better.

Have you not taken gen chem 1 and 2?

Outside of the one C in ochem 1, how else have you done in your prereqs?


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[Terror Billy]

But what happened to the person who said "I think I could score near perfect on my MCAT."

Anyways SMP is probably where you need to go to show you can 3.8+ through the pre-reqs.

 

[om1man]

But what happened to the person who said "I think I could score near perfect on my MCAT."

Anyways SMP is probably where you need to go to show you can 3.8+ through the pre-reqs.

I got near perfect on my last 3. As I said, I averaged all 7 I’ve taken which includes my first time ever taking a full test.

 

[om1man]

Don’t retake prereqs if you earned a C or better.

Have you not taken gen chem 1 and 2?

Outside of the one C in ochem 1, how else have you done in your prereqs?


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Straight B’s and C+ for prereq - I’m doing coursework that is a lot harder now and making A’s but it’s still a bummer that I bombed what should have been good classes. Also my first semester grades are covered so they don’t contribute to my GPA and this is when I took chem1, phys1, calc1, labs, etc