OH boy. How bad is this?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I know I'm probably freaking out too much.. or maybe just right. I'm about to start my fourth semester of college in January, and I haven't done so hot in my first three semesters. </p>

<p>1st semester freshmen year
Gen Bio : B
Stats : B-
English : A
Social Psych : A-
Sociology : B</p>

<p>2nd semester freshmen year:
Cell Bio: C
Speech: B
Literature : B+
Developmental Psych: B</p>

<p>1st semester sophomore year:
Gen chem : B-
History: C-
Cog. Psych : B
Abnormal Psych: B+
Music: B</p>

<p>What makes me mad is that the classes that are easy... such as Music and History.. I didn't try that hard in them and i know they're gonna hurt my GPA. Do you think I should re-take history? I was planning on re-taking cell bio since I got a C in it. As for Gen. Chem, I didn't put any effort into it this semester, but for next semester, Im going to devote more time to it and hopefully get an A. </p>

<p>Looking back on my first year of college, I regret not putting as much time as I should have into my classes because I took easy classes...just didn't put in much effort. I know these are going to sound like excuses, but I was very depressed my first semester of college, and then second semester I was okay, but I got cheated on and it just hit me really hard...and now looking back, I don't know why I let it get to me..</p>

<p>So this fall semester, i decided to buckle down and not let other people, such as boys and their problems, bother me. But it happened again. I know this probably looks so bad that the reason I can't do well in school is because boys upset me, ha. But I got kinda cheated on again in the beginning of the semester, and then my bf broke up with me right before finals this semester. As much as I wanted to focus on school, I couldn't and now seeing my final grades, I wish I hadn't given any thought to those problems. </p>

<p>Also, my history grade got dropped a whole letter grade because I missed 3 more classes than I was allowed to because I had bad stomach pains and it wasn't excused because I couldn't get a doctor's note. </p>

<p>Sorry its long :[!</p>

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<p>Well if you're applying MD, then med schools will take both grades into account if you retake a course.</p>

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<p>Yeah its not really worth it to retake a non pre-req class unless you got a D or F. Better to just take more advanced classes and rock them. I don't really know what else to tell you - you already know that you have to start buckling down and focusing on classes. Generally, some C's won't kill you if the rest of your transcript is As and Bs, but you can't be almost all Bs with a few As and Cs thrown in there. Your GPA will almost certainly be below the cut-off for most schools.</p>

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<p>If you don't have a documented reason (medical problems, death of a family member, etc.) for not doing so well, medical schools aren't really going to care. You may never have a semester where your real life is perfect and causes you no stress at all - you have to get used to that.</p>

<p>I did a quick and dirty calculation of your GPA, and I guess you're hovering around a 3.0 right now. If you keep that up, that isn't going to cut it with allopathic schools, and I'm not sure it's good enough for osteopathic schools, either. Now that you have three semesters with a 3.0, you would need another 3 semesters with a 4.0 or another 5 semesters with 3.7 to get your GPA into the 3.5 range, which is generally what people consider the minimum for allopathic schools. You're up against some hard odds here, so you'll really need to focus to pull it off.</p>

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<p>thank you guys for replying!! i know i really really really have to focus. i'm going to try so hard next semester, i promise. i'm a psych major and the psych classes really interest me so i think i can definitely can A's in them as long as i focus and for the science classes, i'll just have to focus a lot more.</p>

<p>so i shouldn't retake history? but cell bio is okay to retake?</p>

<p>thanks again i appreciate it</p>

<p>ALSO... i believe the time to take MCATS is spring of junior year and then u apply that summer right? but is it okay if i apply during senior year?</p>

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<p>Don't retake any classes. Just focus on the classes you have yet to take.</p>