<p>So I took dual credit in high school and got my final grades and ended up getting a 3.3 (21 semester hours)....I know I can raise it up. I'm doing EMT this summer which is 6 semester hours. I took it solely to raise my gpa. Next summer I'll probably take some other classes to boost my gpa. I got 2 B's in Freshman English and 1 B and 1 C in Art History. I really slacked off. Bad. Bad, bad, bad. Like...for Art History, I didn't even buy the textbook. And I didn't take 4 quizzes because I was too lazy to log on my computer and do them. And now I see the consequences...</p>
<p>How much will this hurt my medical school chances? I still have 4 years in college and these classes will transfer, but not the grade. I really wanted a top 20 medical school, but now I realize it's pretty much out of the question because I'm soo lazy. :/</p>
<p>Well if you transfer the credits then they will be apart of your GPA, however, there are only 4 classes so I wouldn’t worry much about it. You have 4 years to overcome the C (you can live with Bs just have to have much more As than Bs). You could also just not transfer these credits in, than they will never be on your college transcript. To be competitive for top med school you will need a 3.8+, 36+ MCAT, and good ECs. However, there are only a limited number of reasons to aim for a top med school. You can get just as far going to any med school (all are good in the US) as any other.
Why do you think the grade won’t show? I am pretty sure they will (Mines did)? The college won’t use them as apart of their GPA for you but AAMC will use all grades to calculate your BCPM and your non-science GPA.</p>
<p>I mean, freshman year I should be able to pull off a 4.0. I got a 5 on my AP Bio exam, and I got a 5 on my AP Chemistry practice exam. I already took English, took 3 years of Spanish, and I’m self studying for Calculus 1st semester this summer with a textbook and actually find it fun and interesting (odd? I know.). </p>
<p>Next year I’ll take:</p>
<p>General Chem
General Bio
Calculus
Spanish
Scuba Diving</p>
<p>And I know it’s wrong…but is there NO way I can just throw this transcript down the drain? XD I mean…ughh…idk…I don’t feel like it’s fair. I was still immature last year and I wasn’t ready. Especially since it was senior year and senioritis hit me like a hydrogen bomb.</p>
<p>Nope, no way to erase your transcript. All those dual credit grades will contribute to your AMCAS GPA even though they won’t contribute to your university GPA. You still have 4 years! No reason at all to worry now. 20h of a 3.3 will not harm the rest of your GPA (you’ll have, what, about 100 more hours?) very much. So while there’s nothing you can do about it, one C certainly isn’t the last nail in the coffin for your future med school candidacy, should you even get far enough to apply!</p>
<p>Yeah Calc I is interesting, Calc II as well, but Calc III blows them all out the water (3D, 4D, 10D!!). Thats a good first year schedule. I think you have the option to transfer your previous credits to your UG institution. I got a B- in microecon at the UofM and never transferred that transcript to my UG, thus, that grade is essentially threw down the drain. I never cared about transferring the grade, I just didn’t care about it being on my transcript. You have to actually tell the school you got college credit from to send your transcript to your UG. If you don’t than they won’t. Your AP scores show that you are ready for intro science classes so you will be fine. Anything about a 3.5 is good (you probably won’t maintain a 4.0).
Wait, where did your college credit come from exactly?</p>
<p>From a medical school standpoint, you have to reveal that grade. Medical schools don’t care whether you transferred the credits/grade or not. When you apply, you have to send transcripts from every college you have ever attended.</p>
<p>Hey guys, even if you opt not to send your dual enrollment credits to your UG, you still have to send them to AMCAS regardless. Since your AMCAS GPA is the only one that matters for med school, you’re not “saving” your GPA by opting not to send. The only GPA you could be saving is your university, and that would only matter for Latin honors or something. Before you decide not to send transcripts, you should check you universitys requirements…I know mine requires you to send all transcripts, and I can’t imagine having a case of academic dishonesty (whcih would happen if your school found out) against you is a good thing.</p>
<p>My school did not require me to, however, the course was CIS, so I don’t see why I would need to transfer those credits. They wouldn’t know if I didn’t anyway. Not that I care about the B- it won’t hurt my grade much at all. I honestly do not believe if you do not use college credits that you obtained during high school that it will hurt (though I may be wrong).</p>
<p>The B- likely won’t hurt too much since by application you will have taken 20+ courses. The fact you did not disclose a grade will automatically disqualify you at most med schools. And through various student clearinghouses, it’s not hard for med schools to check which colleges a student attended.</p>
<p>^Dang, gotta pay $10 for the transcript now lol. Doesn’t matter, OP the C won’t hurt you. You will need to pull mostly A’s anyway, so it should not be hard to boost your GPA. The AMCAS will NOTE that those courses were taking in high school as well. I already knew this was required and would’ve sent the transcript anyway lol but you guys are scaring me.</p>
<p>*I still have 4 years in college and these classes will transfer, but not the grade. *</p>
<p>The grades WILL transfer.</p>
<p>You’re 17…that’s old enough to have a good work ethic. However, if you put your mind to it, you can leave your bad habits behind and start affresh.</p>
<p>So…what’s your plan of action to rid yourself of your lazy ways?</p>
<p>Top 20 Med. School - about 3.8+/35 will do. Everybody has EC’s, a little more/less is almost irrelevant. There are plenty of very good Med. Schools outside of top 20. Any American Med. School and few others in a world will do.
However, hard working ethic is a key. Slacking off is not a good idea, leave it behind. No matter how small/irrlevant it seems, all tasks/assignments/any elective class, all of it has to be done top notch, big effort, on time, at the highest level of standard…and you better find a way to have fun doing it also (I mean - enjoy)…as well as enjoying everything else (EC’s) and your precious time with friends. Med. Schools are looking for human beings, not GPA/MCAT score producing machines (but these 2 have to be covered first and foremost).</p>
<p>I got a B- in microecon at the UofM and never transferred that transcript to my UG, thus, that grade is essentially threw down the drain.</p>
<p>Uhh…I think universities use some kind of clearinghouse that looks for attendance at any other schools. I’ve seen such a notation on my kids’ records where such a search was done and it was determined that they hadn’t attended college anywhere else. </p>
<p>So, if your college uses this…or if AMCAS uses this, then that grade will be found.</p>
<p>AMCAS uses clearinghouses to look for additional college records. It’s part of the verification process an application undergoes before they are forwarded on to colleges.</p>