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[futurepremed4534]

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Good afternoon SDN people,

posting this so i can see where is stand and what i need to do for MD school, basically i messed up during freshman year got two F's one in bio and one in chem both retaken got A in chem and C in orgo 1, i have overall gpa of 2.8 with science gpa of 2ish gonna start UC this fall as a junior i have total of 52 SCIENCE (-3 if med school doesn't count pre-algebra) credits in science i heard i can take around 50 more at UC school. Did do some calculation i think ill be around 3.0 science gpa if i ace all of those Upper division classes so upward trend, also i am thinking post bacc but i don't know how post bacc works or if i can retake the old classes i've got C's in looking forward to positive criticism wana know if i ace the last two years of undergrad along with post would i have a chance at MD school. PS i don't want to make excuses for my first two years but i think what i know now if i had known before i would be in better place basically i'm frist generation college student and coming from 3rd world country i didn't know any better i took way too many science courses all together at CC but, damages done how can i show med school i have got what it takes. Also what are my chances with PA school. Thank you all and for this platform for some guidance.

 

[DrFortiusNatando]

You need to get serious about your studies if you want to go to medical school. It is really really hard to fix an undergrad GPA, so while all is not lost, you are going to have to work really, really hard. There are going to be times that all of your friends are going to the (beach, mall, club, bar, gym...) and you are going to have to miss some of these activities and work your butt off. Go to office hours. Do extra problem sets. A little secret here - do research on ratemyprofessor and by word of mouth to find the great courses, taught by enthusiastic, fun professors who are not know to be hard in terms of their grading. Try to get to know some professors and take the other courses that they teach at your school. Sign up for an extra course some semesters, and then drop ONE course (prior to the withdraw deadline) when you get a better idea of how good the professor is and how much work it is going to take you to do well in the course. That is one way to help build a strong GPA.

If when you graduate, you still need GPA repair. then you will need a masters/SMP program. You will not need or want to just re-take your basic premed coursework. Most SMP's allow you to take coursework that is similar to first year of medical school - just do your legwork to find the better ones. Your GPA here will not be averaged, but adcoms will be able to see that you can do med school level coursework if you do well in an SMP. There are other more traditional post bacc programs, but these cater to students with very little science background; think teacher, rabbi, peace corps worker.

 

[futurepremed4534]

You need to get serious about your studies if you want to go to medical school. It is really really hard to fix an undergrad GPA, so while all is not lost, you are going to have to work really, really hard. There are going to be times that all of your friends are going to the (beach, mall, club, bar, gym...) and you are going to have to miss some of these activities and work your butt off. Go to office hours. Do extra problem sets. A little secret here - do research on ratemyprofessor and by word of mouth to find the great courses, taught by enthusiastic, fun professors who are not know to be hard in terms of their grading. Try to get to know some professors and take the other courses that they teach at your school. Sign up for an extra course some semesters, and then drop ONE course (prior to the withdraw deadline) when you get a better idea of how good the professor is and how much work it is going to take you to do well in the course. That is one way to help build a strong GPA.

If when you graduate, you still need GPA repair. then you will need a masters/SMP program. You will not need or want to just re-take your basic premed coursework. Most SMP's allow you to take coursework that is similar to first year of medical school - just do your legwork to find the better ones. Your GPA here will not be averaged, but adcoms will be able to see that you can do med school level coursework if you do well in an SMP. There are other more traditional post bacc programs, but these cater to students with very little science background; think teacher, rabbi, peace corps worker.

Looking at the stats i see that with 3.0 and no post bacc my application would not even pass computer screening also if i have bachelors in Biology is there no post bacc program that i can take?