<p>Hi, I am a premed students who just applied to UCLA, UCB, and UCSD as bio major.
I have 3.90+ GPA (from CCC) but I have 4 Ws, a D, and a F (I made up all of them with As). </p>
<p>I just started to be on this forum recently and I had no idea how those W/D/F grade can ruin your chance towards med/grad school. Past few years, I was just so focused on maintaining the high GPA at my CC and getting accepted to UCs that I didn't really care much about getting those W/D/F.</p>
<p>So my question is, with that many W/D/F grades (though they were all retaken), should I re-consider my career and med school since I will probably have low GPA (they average your GPA with retaken grade, not replace) and never get accepted to top-tier med schools I want?</p>
<p>I know this is not a med/grad school admission forum, but I wanted to know how some of you transfer students who want to go to med/grad school later on would deal with those retakes. Thank you.</p>
<p>There really isn’t much you can do about them at this point since the classes have already happened. You just have to be sure that you maintain getting great grades in your upper division science/math courses and nail the mcat.</p>
<p>In two years the older, more mature version of yourself is going to be pleased as punch to get accepted to any US medical school. And will laugh at the younger, more na</p>
<p>Unfortunately with allopathic medical school (MD) applications they factor in every single grade taken at a college level. I am also a transfer pre med student with one F in a non UC credit class that I replaced with an A, but unfortunately it will still factor into my GPA. The only thing you can do is show a strong upward trend and avoid any W,D or F’s in the future. Im sure your set on MD but if you look at Osteopathic medical schools (DO) they allow grade replacement so your D’s and F’s will not count, thats my 2 cents. hope it helps</p>