what if my upper division grades suffered?

[msasnmonki]

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I'm a city college transfer student. After i transfered to a 4 year college, during the junior and senior year, my grades suffered. Now my gpa went from a 3.6 ( at city college) to a 3.0. This does not tie into the trend of having bad grades during freshmen year and improve afterwards. How would med schools look at this?

 

[VFrank]

Is there even an upward trend from your junior to your senior year? For most people, a terrible freshman year results from the "shock" of being at college for the first time. If, for you, that "shock" happened when you transfered to university, but then you show improvement after that, it will prolly look better.

 

[Medikit]

That's going to be viewed negatively, it's a good thing you did so well your first two years to keep your GPA up. Is a city college the same thing as a community college?

 

[exmike]

I'm a city college transfer student. After i transfered to a 4 year college, during the junior and senior year, my grades suffered. Now my gpa went from a 3.6 ( at city college) to a 3.0. This does not tie into the trend of having bad grades during freshmen year and improve afterwards. How would med schools look at this?

I see a potential problem here. Many schools dont like accepting community college classes because it is hard for them to judge the value of the grades assigned. Oftentimes this is negated by a strong performance at a 4 year college upon transfer. I think that the adcomm will conclude that you couldnt handle the curriculum at a 4 year college and that is why your grades dropped. You'll definitely want to address that.

 

[thewzdoc]

I'm a city college transfer student. After i transfered to a 4 year college, during the junior and senior year, my grades suffered. Now my gpa went from a 3.6 ( at city college) to a 3.0. This does not tie into the trend of having bad grades during freshmen year and improve afterwards. How would med schools look at this?

You might want to think about post-bac work then. You need to prove that you can handle the academic rigors associated with medical school.

 

[msasnmonki]

You might want to think about post-bac work then. You need to prove that you can handle the academic rigors associated with medical school.

I am considering doing post-bac work. What kind of jobs is good? what about applying for grad school? would that help?

 

[Newquagmire]

i'm familiar with downward trends, but i'm not sure how the 3.0 cumulative is going to be viewed. it seems a little low in general, but there could be a variety of explanations for that.

i.e. it is very highly dependent on what else you were doing during college that could influence how adcoms may view your gpa.