i’m in my freshman year of college and i’m basically failing out, my GPA from the fall semester is a 2.9 and for the spring I have failed almost all tests so far so this semester will probably bring my gpa down even more:( I am a pre med student and now I see my goals of being premed are basically ruined. However I cannot see myself in any other career so I do not know what to do. other classmates taking the same exact courses as me are succeeding with 3.9 gpa’s and getting letters from the dean of the school. hearing about it all makes me so depressed and I feel embarrassed to tell anyone how i’m doing in school when they ask me. I study for days for one test and I still end up getting in the 30’s. I do not know what to do at this point and I feel like a failure. getting horrible grades every week makes me more unmotivated for school and makes my grades even worse. even when I get a break off from school I feel fine but once school starts again I get depressed from my exam grades once again. I do not know what to do anymore and I don’t think it’s ever going to be possible to recover from my horrible grades so I can remain a premed student.
Ok one breath, a 2.9 is not the end of the world by any means, also not every on his getting 3.9 I am pretty sure of that as well. With that said reach out to your professors and see why you bombing this semester, maybe you do not do well with online learning for example. DO Not Let your pride get in the way, there have been plenty of kids before you and will be after you that bombed a semester. I do not know enough about your school or premed to answer your pre med question if it is in serious jeopardy, but there are plenty of careers in medicine besides being a dr. Good luck and let us know how your are doing.
Transfer to a Community College were the rigor will be a little less daunting. Work on your study skills while there and once you get your associates degree transfer. You don’t have to give up on your dream.