<p>i transferred to uconn this school year, last semester I had a GPA below 2.0 this semester I managed to make a GPA above 2.0, I've not been doing as well as I hoped especially being pre-med hoping to attend medical school, as well as being able to graduate in 2014, after taking my summer classes, I will have 58 credits including my transferred credits. im am a bio major so my classes are not that easy to say the least, i do not want to give up AT ALL, but i do need advice on how to get a higher GPA and what i can utilize at Uconn to help me achieve my goal...</p>
<p>With Bio, it’s tricky. We have great tutoring centers in the library, but I had the same problem with even just Bio 1108 where they aren’t really science centered. They’ve got the Q-Center for the math courses and the W-Center for writing courses, but not much for science in there, to my knowledge.</p>
<p>Take advantage of office hours, though. Determine where you’re having the most trouble. If it’s with your lab, then go to whoever is instrructing the lab for office hours, and if not, go to the professors office hours. Abolute worst case scenario, if you can’t manage to improve, a lot of professors are a lot more lenient when students come to office hours as it demonstrates they really are trying and willing to put time and effort into their grade.</p>
<p>Also, are you in the Special Program for Medicine? I’m not sure how that works, if all “pre-med” students are automatically in that or whatever, but it’s a program uconn offers to pre med students where you go on a 4 year course and have to meet certain requirements, then upon graduation you just continue there under UConn’s medical school. It’s basically an auto-admission into the med school, I believe.</p>
<p>Most of the advice really isn’t specific to UConn after that. Check ratemyprof/myedu or just ask around and try and make sure you don’t get any terrible teachers for the required classes you need, if possible. Take advantage of summer and winter courses as often they meet gen ed requirements, if not actual major requirements, but tend to be easier than during the school year itself. Study and do your hardest. Hit the library and office hours and just make sure you’re giving it 110% if you’re serious about it.</p>
<p>I have very similar suggestions as Alesteors. I took a bio course this past semester as a non major but I know your upper level bio classes are quite difficult. I am glad to hear that you have no plans on giving up and you want to give it your all. I would suggest maybe lessening our courseload for the fall maybe instead of 17/18 credits do 15/16. I dont really know much about the special med program but I believe it is was only available to competitve applicants entering UConn as a freshman. Definitely make sure you put in ALOT of time studying at the library for your classes, weekends included and study as ahead of time before can exam as you can. I would agree with checking ratemyprofessors to see the reviews on certain profs for each class because the difficulty of a course is dependant on the specific prof some are much harder or easier then the other. Try to take two “hard” courses related to your major and fill up the rest with Gen Eds so you can focus more and spend more time on the relevant difficult courses. You can definitely suceed at your goals but it will take your best effort and you may have to be willing to sacrifice your social life. Not to worry an acceptance into Med School is definitely worth the hard work. Goodluck next semester and just stay positive and motivated.</p>