<p>I am a premed student at U of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I'll be a sophomore in the fall and after the first year my science gpa is ~3.75. At this point should I be concerned? I have taken Orgo I & II, Physical Chemistry, Calc 3 & 4, and Bio. This means I have gotten a lot of my premed prereqs out of the way but it also means t hat I do not have that much room for improvement in my prereq classes GPA. Should I consider going into other fields such as pharmacy or dental?</p>
<p>You should be extremely concerned. This thread is a very bad sign.</p>
<p>The GPA is fine. That you are worried about it is very, very bad.</p>
<p>haha I go to U of MIchigan Ann Arbor and I got a 3.75 too, and im not concerned</p>
<p><em>rubs eyes</em></p>
<p>yep, this thread is real, oh my...</p>
<p>we have a new inductee into the neurotic premed hall of fame, but I have a hard time being even the slightest bit sympathetic to this one. Even the most cursory review of med school admissions statistics tells your what kind of shape your in, there is absolutely no reason to be asking this question.</p>
<p>I am concerned because I HAVE looked over admissions statistics. From the sources that I have seen, the average gpa of accepted students seems to be around a 3.6-3.7. This causes me to be concerned because if that is the average then my chances of getting in doesn't seem that great.</p>
<p>Why in the world would your chances not seem great if your GPA is clearly above the average matriculant?</p>
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am concerned because I HAVE looked over admissions statistics. From the sources that I have seen, the average gpa of accepted students seems to be around a 3.6-3.7
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<p>Clearly you haven't looked over them very closely at all. Your BCPM gpa is higher than the average OVERALL gpa for matriculants at all but a handful of schools (this is the usnews data), and as a rule the BCPM gpa for students will be lower than the overall in most cases. Even the numbers you have should tell you that you have above average numbers, and therefore asking if you should abandon premed is absolutely insane. Seriously, if you're asking this question, maybe you need to ask if it's really what you want to do if you're so willing to abandon it.</p>
<p>The thing is, my BCMP gpa is higher than my overall gpa. As part of the honors program I had to take two honors courses every semester and those courses are usually in humanities. I have not done well in those courses, and as a result, my overall gpa is less than my science gpa. : /</p>
<p>And what's your overall GPA, if you don't mind me asking? Also, you specifically started this thread asking if you should abandon premed simply based on your science GPA. If you were that concerned about your overall GPA, one would think you would have initially mentioned that.</p>
<p>This thread is everything that's wrong with premed students.</p>
<p>^^^^^</p>
<p>agreed.</p>
<p>OP, sounds to me like you should abandon medicine due to lack of passion, not lack in GPA.</p>
<p>My overall GPA is ~3.7. To make one thing clear, I do have a passion for medicine, and that is why I'm so worried that I wouldn't make it into med school. Furthermore, I have heard that UM's placement into med school is around 50% (the national average). Taking that into account, my situation just worsened a bit.</p>
<p><em>gasp</em> your overall gpa is still...above average?!?</p>
<p>you have yet to take a number of important prereqs, haven't even thought about the MCAT, and we have no knowledge of the rest of your activities/research/clinical involvement. There is not enough information to gauge whether you will be a successful applicant nor not, but there is enough info to tell you that your GPA is not a problem.</p>
<p>There is, by contrast, more than enough information to tell us that your stress level IS going to be a problem.</p>
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Furthermore, I have heard that UM's placement into med school is around 50% (the national average). Taking that into account, my situation just worsened a bit.
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The 50% of applicants rejected from all med schools from UM probably don't have 3.7 GPAs after taking a year of orgo...</p>
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Furthermore, I have heard that UM's placement into med school is around 50% (the national average). Taking that into account, my situation just worsened a bit.
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The 50% of applicants rejected from all med schools from UM probably don't have 3.7 GPAs after taking a year of orgo...
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Yeah, Venkat is right on this one. The only thing that matters is your individual application. If everything on your part is up to par or above average, than you'll probably get in somewhere. It has nothing to do with all the other premeds at your school or how many of them are accepted somewhere.</p>
<p>OP, perhaps you should spend a little more time on the premed forum and get an idea of what the med school application process and criteria are like.</p>
<p>You've got two years, and your GPA is ridiculously high for already having taken organic chemistry...</p>
<p>You have two years. You can possibly push that to like, a 3.9.</p>
<p>You're fine.</p>
<p>Agree with BDM, your stress level is way too high. If you are this stressed out now, under these circumstances, you are going to have a very difficult time with the level of stress in Med School. Take a deep breath....academically you are fine for as much as you have accomplished thus far. Remember that your two GPA scores are only part of the overall package and you have a long way to go. Relax a little so that you get there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advices. I have to say with all honesty I am not that stressed out. Going into college, I just really wanted a 4.0, and that is completely out of the question for me. : /</p>
<p>That's not a bad thing, necessarily.</p>
<p>First semester, I got a 4.0. It subconsciously put a lot of pressure on me to repeat it the next semester and maintain that 4.0, but "fortunately", I didn't get a 4.0 second semester. With a sub-4 GPA, the unnecessarily stressful goal of getting a 4.0 disappeared. It was a weight lifted.</p>