<p>Good day everyone. Let me get straight to the point. I was a poor student in High School and a poor student my first year of a community college. I am past the middle of my second year now and many things have changed. I have been able to raise by GPA from 2.0, since first semester of college, to 3.0 recent semester, and hopefully up to 3.2 or 3.3 before I tranfer within the next one or two semesters. I am a Biology major and that is official. Eventually I am aiming to become a cardiothoracic surgeon, but it is the chance of admission into a medical M.D school that worries me most. If i tranfer into a 4 year B.C college and do well, lets say as well as 3.6-3.9 GPA, would the first few years i did reallllly bad affect me? To some this might seem as the answer is obvious but I would appreciate many different opinions.</p>
<p>I don’t think because you’d have a strong upward trend.</p>
<p>First of all, I would suggest delaying your application until after graduation to give yourself more time to improve your GPA and to put some distance between your application and your poor freshman grades.</p>
<p>Every college level class you’ve ever taken will be included in computing both your overall GPA and your sGPA.</p>
<p>Many medical schools use a computer program to screen applicants using some combination of cumulative GPA + MCAT. (And don’t ask what this magic number is–it’s varies from school and school and is considered highly proprietary information.) Unless your stats meet this cut-off, your application isn’t even going to get looked at.</p>
<p>Some medical schools will consider an upward trend in your grades–provided you get thru the initial screening; some won’t.</p>