<p>If you bombed your first semester of freshman year (1.0 GPA) but did well the rest of your years (3.7+) GPA and the MCAT (36+), will you still have a chance at going to a medical school? I'm guessing you would also need really good ECs in that case.</p>
<p>We see questions like this a lot.</p>
<p>First of all, why did you get the 1.0? </p>
<p>What did you get the 1.0 in? Science and math classes? What?</p>
<p>It’s very hard to get the high GPA for the rest of your years and very high MCAT.</p>
<p>What classes did you take last semester and what grades did you get?</p>
<p>those bad grades will be seen by med schools.</p>
<p>If you have </p>
<p>15 credits at 1.0 = 15.0
105 credits at 3.7 = 388.5</p>
<p>403.5 / 120 = 3.36</p>
<p>Still very low for med school.</p>
<p>You’d need to either take more credits to further dilute that 1.0 or get a higher GPA from now on.</p>
<p>It’s uphill.</p>
<p>I don’t get it. Why do they do that? It’s only one semester. If you can get 3.7 for the rest of the school years (3+), doesn’t that show you’ve completely changed? Young people can change a lot in three years, you know.</p>
<p>The idea is that you changed BEFORE you started college and took your academics seriously once you got there.</p>
<p>This may or may not be a reach, but medical schools may put stock into WOWMom’s idea that changing before you get to college is important, because they know medical school requires a large adjustment as well and they want to see smooth transitions.</p>
<p>Also, there will be plenty of kids who didn’t mess up. Why chance it with you?</p>
<p>I agree with mom, your hypothetical is too vague, and quite frankly, unlikely. I got a C in orgo 1 and had to work my ass off to get a B for orgo 2. That was my only bad class. Going from a 1 to a 3.7 is practically impossible unless you totally switch areas.</p>
<p>Students who “bomb” a semester usually do not get into med school. The reason is because there are numerous students who DID NOT bomb a semester and still don’t get into med school.</p>