Is med school over for me if I got a D at UC Berkeley in a non-major class?

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<p>It is an elective course, and I didn't anticipate getting a >D<!! I can't believe it. help? should i repeat the course so that the D doesn't count in my gpa?</p>

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<p>AMCAS will count the D in your GPA regardless, so don’t bother retaking. This is a very severe blow. It’s theoretically possible that the rest of your GPA, MCAT scores, and EC’s will be enough to compensate.</p>

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<p>okay, yeah i really don’t want to retake it. i learned nothing. and then they expect us to know the stuff on the test when they haven’t taught us anything!! errr. i guess i’ll just raise my gpa then with other classes. can i appeal? will that look better</p>

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<p>I don’t know anything about Berkeley’s internal appeal process. I assume if you successfully raise your grade to (say) a D+, then AMCAS will count it as a 2.3 rather than a 2.0 or whatever.</p>

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<p>A D would not be a 2.0, it would be a 1.0. A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0, D=1.0, F=0.</p>

<p>To give you an idea how devastating that D is, if the OP took 15 units last semester, got the D in a 3 unit class and got As in other 12 units, she would have a 3.4 GPA for the semester which is not likely to get you into medical school unless you are a URM.</p>

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<p>^^^ However, one semester with a 3.4 won’t kill you. </p>

<p>A D however is very serious.</p>

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<p>*I don’t know anything about Berkeley’s internal appeal process. I assume if you successfully raise your grade to (say) a D+, then AMCAS will count it as a 2.3 rather than a 2.0 or whatever. *</p>

<p>BDM was under the influence of Christmas Eve eggnog when he wrote this. ;)</p>

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<p>Md applications will not factor if you retake, however DO school applications do have a retaking policy that would replace, so worst comes to worst apply to DO schools</p>

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<p>Hey! Does the “or whatever” defense mean nothing around these parts? :)</p>

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<p>I do find it amazing that this thread got yanked up from the bowels for a “whatever” message.</p>

<p>OTOH, every time I read the thread i keep hearing Germans and Pearl Harbor echoing somewhere in the handful of braincells I have left functioning.</p>