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I got a C in BOWLING!!!
Wow!LSU-Tech said:"C" In a general Biology. I retook it and got an "A"
I think I barely edge you out. 4/4 Fs one semester, 16 credits, no excuse. Basically just went to class the first day, then took the final after several months of constant drinking. 10 years of college. Plus this was at Harvard, where (these days) you can't get an F without *really* trying. And not to mention a slew of C- and D grades in addition.Dallenoff said:4 F's (15 hours) in one semester. They should have been W's. Yeah, that hurt. A. Lot. I was doing fine in the classes too. I was going through a 2+ year legal battle with the financial aid department and a family death didn't help.
I'm spending 8 years in college to make that **** up. I hope I can explain it to the adcoms. 😡
Of course I'm retaking the classes and getting A's, so hopefully they'll look past it.
liverotcod said:I think I barely edge you out. 4/4 Fs one semester, 16 credits, no excuse. Basically just went to class the first day, then took the final after several months of constant drinking. 10 years of college. Plus this was at Harvard, where (these days) you can't get an F without *really* trying. And not to mention a slew of C- and D grades in addition.
If it reassures you any, I also retook the courses more than a decade later, and had a successful application. PM me if there's any way I can help.
Good MCAT plus poor GPA suggests "dissolute," I suppose. But in my PS and other communications with schools, I was pretty up front about my drinking problem and its results. At the same time, I didn't really focus on it, but rather on my much more recent successes. In only one interview was it really an issue, where my interviewer was a child psychiatrist and seemed to want to be my shrink more than my interviewer. Otherwise, most of my interviewers allowed me to tell my story.emgirl said:Hi Liver- Nice showing on the MCAT! Just wondering, how did interviewers treat you at your interviews..did they spend alot of time asking about your prior bad grades? Or did they just basically overlook them cuz of your phenomenal MCAT? I'm just wondering how bad grades are treated in interviews if you've got a good post bac record and MCAT (clearly I'm dreading those conversations if I get interviews...) 🙂Em