Dilemma: Rising Soph. w/ 85 Hours, 3.26 GPA

<p>Well then, I also give up on this matter. I guess you were right all along, please go take your MCAT after freshman year, take those mediocre grades are indication that are ready for medical school material, and just AP credit out of classes that may give you your last opportunity to improve your low gpa while taking higher level courses in attempt to boost your gpa but realize that they are most likely more difficult then the classes you failed to score high marks in.</p>

<p>Good game.</p>

<p>I mean, I guess you really can’t possibly delay the MCAT until you are ready, since UT Memphis strictly says you now have to take it on the date you register, so as to jeopardize your MCAT history. MCAT is no SAT where you can take it as many times and they take the highest marks from each section. You ruin this chance and it’ll haunt your future MCAT scores. What is there to lose to just retake those AP classes, score higher, and better prepare yourself so you don’t have to say “what if I score really high on this one?”. Your likely turnout after you retake those classes and then take the MCAT is that “I was better prepared taking this now, then I would have been had I taken it after my freshman year.” That’s one “worse” case scenario, although not worse case, but if you really are taking our input and not just finding people who agree with you, you will see that this makes logical sense. Stop rushing, swallow that pride of yours, slow down, enjoy college, you most likely won’t get to do this again. Why are you rushing to get into med school to have a much harder courseload when you haven’t proven much yourself right now? I don’t mean to be mean, but I would be surprised if, with your attitude and grades, you are able to get into an accelerated MD program right now. Just look at the med school acceptance statistics and you will see where you fall. Don’t do more damage or potentially do more damage.</p>