<p>Hi everyone. I'm a sophomore, double majoring in Chem and Japanese, just finished my fall semester and got my grades back and, OH MY GAWWDDDD!!!!!!!!!!! I am just so discouraged because my grades for Histology (which counts towards the science-gpa, dammit!) is so incredibly bad. whoa. What's worse is that this Histology course was supposed to be my "last-chance-save-me" course for the intro-bio course I've messed up in my freshman year... yeah... </p>
<p>The problem is that I know what is wrong with me: I just can't memorize things. By that I don't mean I can't ever remember stuff, but what I mean is that I have issues with memorizing things without really understanding them, which is mostly the case with Bio with me. Chem & Phys, I do well without memorizing because I use the concepts over and over. But Bio, for me it seems like "here, memorize these for your exam, no need to understand anything because they're just facts, sucks if you can't." URGH!</p>
<p>I've been considering grad school for Chem, so do a research for a couple of years, then apply to med schools afterwards. Would my they still care for my Bio grades then? Someone please give me a sincere response. I am considering if I should stop being premed.</p>
<p>No one here can give you advice unless you define “incredibly bad” - what exactly were your grades in histo and bio? (I say this because we’ve had people freak out over B- grades.) And what are your BCPM and overall GPAs?</p>
<p>^true. depending on your grades, people can help you accordingly. I read a thread where a guy at Yale had a 3.56 or something and was freaking out. And that was only freshman year, semester 1. So, there are a wide range of ppl, but telling us your grades would help ppl come up with solutions.</p>
<p>Yes, they will still care about UG Bio coursework no matter what you do post-grad.</p>
<p>If you’re having difficulty with your bio coursework, talk to a prof and figure out what’s going on. If you are unable to correct your problem with memorization in relatively easy UG bio courses, you should consider what it will be like in medical school. Understanding is crucial and bio has a logical progression/sequence/whatever the case may be for a given topic. If you’re having trouble identifying how the details fit into the concepts and going from there to knowing the details, you really have got to figure that out… nothing else to consider, really. Identify where things are falling apart and fix them. If you cannot do so, you may need to reconsider your premedical status and there would be no shame to that as the vast majority who enter as “premed” will not finish as med school applicants, regardless of school.</p>
<p>Medical schools really don’t care if you go to graduate school first. To them, its undergrad GPA and MCAT score.
While a C- is theoretically recoverable from, it would help to know your overall GPA, as well as you sGPA.</p>
<p>one note to the OP: if you are bad at memorizing things this will make med curriculum very difficult. Being a physician, also requires have a large body of information at your fingertips. You may wish to address this issue before going further.</p>