Med School with mediocre GPA.

Pre-Med & Medical School
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I’m currently a Sophomore Bio Major, about to begin Spring Semester. I did terrible in high school and didn’t get into any colleges and universities and just went through the motions of school through the community college near me. Which was actually quite far from me and I didn’t drive and my family had no car. So my first semester was in 2012 as a Gen Eds major. I took two years off after one semester and went back after I got a car. Long story short, I switched to bio to pursue medical school. And at the moment, going into my spring semester as a sophomore, I have a 3.1 GPA and have about 63 credits. What can I do, to get myself on the right track again. I know I want to be a physician as I cannot see myself doing anything else and I am willing to do whatever I have to do to get there. I have a B average pretty much and just want some advice on where to go from here. I’m willing to put in whatever time is needed and just want some advice as there are no advisors at my school who are remotely decent and can give me any solid advice that would actually help me.

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You have to get straight As and transfer to a 4 year college and get straight As there. And come up with a plan B.

3

There are other health care related profession you can try in np, pa, od and others.

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Thank you for the responses.

My plan B would probably be being a PA, however it would have to be my absolute last resort and no chance of me being a physician. Even if it doesn’t look too good I’m willing to put in more work and time necessary to increase my chances.

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You need to increase your grades, retake whatever you can. Go to tutoring and office hours until you are systematically in the 95-100 range for every class you take.
If you can’t retake English, General Chemistry, etc, take another (higher level) class to mitigate the earlier grades and show Wat you are capable of.
Then transfer to a four year university - a public university in your state is perfectly okay. What matters is your taking premed pre-reqs and ranking in the top 10%.

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Okay, that’s what I was thinking. Thank you.