<p>Okay let's just start. I am at Berkeley as a premed and I screwed up my first semester GPA. I took:
Chem 1A and got a C, Chem 1AL and got a B-, Math 1A and got a B-, and English and got a B. for a GPA of 2.6.
I messed up mainly because I was stupid and got carried away with my first girlfriend and I never took any AP courses in math, Chem, or English.
Now i know it sounds unrealistic, but assuming I can pull out a 4.0 for the rest of my 28 classes for a final GPA of 3.825, what are my chances of getting into UCLA, USC, UCSF, Stanford, and Harvard? Can I delete my first semester of college from my GPA?
I have an internship position at a doctors office, I volunteer in a hospital, and I plan to do research on the human eye, which I have a true and legitimate passion for since I want to find a cute for blindness. I have an SAT of 2320 and I took a practice MCAT and got a 37 which I assume will go up to 40+ by my junior year.</p>
<p>Just fail your finals and retake the class.</p>
<p>Failing and retaking won’t help for medical school purposes, since all grades are considered.</p>
<p>Remember also that medical schools also consider your science GPA as well as your overall GPA.</p>
<p>You may want to consider your backup plans in case you do not get into medical school. Any MD medical school in the US requires high GPAs and MCAT scores just to pass the initial cut.</p>
<p>Do med schools compute the grad school grades? If yes then why won’t you take gad school after your undergrad first and apply to med school after?</p>
<p>You can be a nurse.</p>
<p>You should have planned ahead and withdrawn. </p>
<p>If you can get a 3.8, you’ll have no trouble going to med school. My advice is to move somewhere else, study much harder and bring up your GPA. If you get a C for Chem1A, it doesn’t bode well for your chances in Chem 3a and 3b which require much deeper lateral thinking and planning.</p>
<p>Also consider majoring in IB instead of MCB. You wont need to take as many dreaded pre-reqs. To be honest, you haven’t yet started on the more difficult pre-reqs.</p>
<p>Go to China and become a doctor there.</p>
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Yes, it indeed sounds very unrealistic. I am not saying that it is impossible, and I encourage you to try, but I would recommend that you have a backup plan in mind in case it doesn’t work out, which will happen with a high probability. There are always factors outside of your control that may lead to a lower grade even though you may have studied enough.</p>
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<p>Aren’t the prerequisites for MCB and IB the same?</p>
<p>Chemistry 1A, 1AL, 3A, 3AL, 3B, 3BL
Biology 1A, 1AL, 1B
Physics 8A, 8B
Math 1A, 1B or 10A, 10B</p>
<p>Majoring in biology is not required for pre-med, although the prerequisites for MCB or IB cover most of the pre-med course requirements.</p>
<p>^He’s probably referring to pre-10 series years, when IB accepted the 16 series for math. I didn’t even realize they switched to the 10-series requirement until just a week ago, and I’m guessing many people who aren’t freshmen or sophomores at this point are also unaware this switch occurred.</p>
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<p>Yes, it is.</p>
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<p>Yeah, sure.</p>
<p>Somewhat unrelated but are you still with your girlfriend? If so I"m sure that’s fun and you didn’t lose everything your first semester right? (I’ve never had a girlfriend here in college…)</p>
<p>Also all the advice above sound like good plans. I say this so much I’m sure it’s cliched, but although it looks bad now, nothings set in stone and things will get better if you improve yourself by learning from your mistakes this semester.</p>
<p>Many Markov chains gives enough time will reach a steady state that doesn’t resemble it’s initial state (The probability of getting to transient nodes go to zero and their probabilities flow into the recurrent nodes). </p>
<p>Also this is like a large negative impulse and generally in human systems are like averaging or median filters where outliers given enough time play very little effect on the overall output.</p>
<p>So basically what I’m saying is “It looks bad now, but if you learned from your mistakes and keep improving, this one time will almost make no impact in your overall life in the future”. Good luck!</p>
<p>MCB majors also need to take the class MCB100, which requires instinctive knowledge of everything taught in Chem 3a and 3b. </p>
<p>Overall, Biology at Cal is a tough major. I took some classes a few years back at several UCs, and the ones at Cal noticably required more studying.</p>
<p>A perfect example is Bio 1AL, which was taught by a scruffy, shaggy, egotistical fact-spewing meglomaniac who was probably the biggest reason why people leave the major.</p>
<p>MCB majors need to take MCB C100A if they are in the options of biochemistry and molecular biology, genetics and genomics, or immunology; cell and developmental, developmental genetics, infectious disease, and neurobiology options can take MCB 102 (which is the likely choice of a non-MCB, non-CoC major pre-med to get the fourth “chemistry” course).</p>
<p>@wampatoga
Do not feel discourage.
People can do it. You can do it. Just try your best.
Here is the thread:
[Whoever</a> got accepted from Med school with <3.0 or <3.5 GPA | Pre-Medical Osteopathic [ DO ] | Student Doctor Network](<a href=“Whoever got accepted from Med school with <3.0 or <3.5 GPA | Student Doctor Network”>Whoever got accepted from Med school with <3.0 or <3.5 GPA | Student Doctor Network)</p>
<p>You guys are too nice. 4.0 for the rest of his 28 classes? LOL</p>
<p>^ Laughable…</p>
<p>This guy is completely out of touch with reality. The things women can do…</p>
<p>From what I understand, going to prestigious medical schools isn’t all that important… </p>
<p>Why does it to be top medical schools?</p>
<p>Your mistake is going to Berkeley as a pre-med in the first place.</p>
<p>I’m not going to pretend that this guy has good chances. But I wouldn’t dismiss anyone immediately. </p>
<p>If he can focus intently and change completely, it might be possible. In O-chem, one of the professors (Viernas) made a habit of showing to the class those who improved from one midterm to the second. One person who scored among the last got the second best score for the second midterm and was #1 on the final. Got an A in the class.</p>