<p>Hinder you? yes, stop you from applying, no.</p>
<p>If you take an upper level chem course, or upper level biochem and get better than a C that would help. </p>
<p>Your competition will have A’s and B’s in O-chem and physics. More than likely A’s. However, if your second semester of O-chem you can pull higher than a C that would obviously help gpa-wise and showing an upward trend.</p>
<p>I am assuming your mom is the original poster?</p>
<p>So it looks like you transfered in a bunch of APs to state and skipped the bio, chem and calc.</p>
<p>As a pre-med I would have advised strongly against that since the med schools want to see grades for the required pre-requisite coursework. I would have only advised to keep those credits and take the higher level courses if you KNEW FOR SURE you would get A’s in those courses (which in physics and chem you didn’t), especially if attending NCSU. </p>
<p>ECU won’t be AS picky but UNC will be. They have applicants that are NC residents that not only graduate from the state schools including Carolina and Duke but students that went to school out of state and come back home to apply. This is what my son did, he graduated from an ivy, took a gap year and completed another degree during that year at NCSU with the above posted majors. So his first degree was from an ivy in econ, and the others were in STEM.</p>
<p>There are currently 6 Harvard grads in his class, several from Yale, Penn, Columbia, many from Duke, Davidson, Swat, Amherst, and many from CA (UCLA, UCB, Stanford and some LACs from the west coast). This does not include people who have moved here from out of state, worked and then apply as NC residents. </p>
<p>Those will all be your competition. ECU only takes NC residents so that will help. Son’s new roomie graduated from ECU with a 4.00, both overall GPA and BCPM. He actually does not have many classmates from NCSU, the most from Carolina and others from around the state.</p>
<p>With tuition last year at $14,000 UNC can afford to be very picky. They have applicants that have applied 5-6 times. And some do get in. So your competition isn’t just this year’s grads but those from several years previous from other states and newly minted NC residents.</p>
<p>Raleigh/Durham is one of the fastest growing cities. RTP is a hub for the bio industry. And keep in mind all those pre-vet students who don’t get into NCSU, often apply to med school the following year. Son has a few of those in his class.</p>
<p>You already have the grades you have. It is time for re-evaluating your courses. It is not impossible, but you need to bring up your GPA. The more science classes that count for BCPM the more your first set of grades are diluted. Hence my suggestion for a biochem or micro major, the guy in charge of micro is a good guy and is often looking for TA’s and researchers. That will help as well.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Kat</p>