<p>Hi everyone! I am a rising sophomore at a college and am seriously freaking out because of my spring term science course GPA. In the fall, I took intensive Intro Chem and got 3.33 (B-), in the spring, I took two intro bio course (my school splits intro bio to two - organismal and cellular) and got 2.91 (C+) on each. I have a cumulative GPA of 2.83 for my freshman year.
This is scary. I did so HORRIBLY on my intro bio courses! I am no longer sure if I am even qualified to be on premed track anymore. Is there any way I can compensate? Also, I have an issue of not quite being a full citizen (I have permanent residency). In this case, having a bad first year grade would kill my chances, wouldn't it. I mean, having a bad first year grade would really kill in general. ANY WAY I CAN SAVE MYSELF? I am planning on taking orgo chem and histology in the fall. If I do well on these, would it help, or seem like at least I've improved? How much does intro level science courses matter? Please help me. I am too scared to even tell my parents what I got for the spring term because it's so bad. I've never gotten a C in my life. I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s not the best thing but I got a C in my intro course too. I talked to my pre-med advisor and we talked about OPERATION:BRING G.P.A. figure out what study habits didnt work for you last year, did someone distract you? Did you hold off on the studying and studied all the chapters one week before or did you gradually study every little bit every day? Did you have study groups with people that didnt really study or that distracted you? Did you go to all the classes? All these are question I asked myself and most I said no, so I’m deciding to change it up because we do not have that much time to change our G.P.A.'s. Being a pre-med student means that there is sacrifice. Are you willing to sacrifice certain things you do last year to do better? Thats the advice I have to give to you.</p>
<p>You get a 3.33 for a B-?</p>
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<p>That’s what I was thinking!!!</p>
<p>but then wouldn’t that mean OP’s GPA is actually worse than calculated? I thought by medschool standard’s a B- is a 2.7. Of course i could be wrong… B=3, B+ = 3.33 A- 3.7,</p>
<p>Yes. The B- is probably a 2.7 and the C+'s are probably 2.3’s. The OP’s GPA is probably closer to 2.5 than 2.8.</p>
<p>At my school, A, B, C, is 4,3,2, etc. and + and - are +/- .3 for whatever the letter grade is.</p>
<p>I thought med schools did that too.</p>
<p>^ With the exception that A+ = A = 4.0 (for the AMCAS GPA.)</p>