<p>dude one of my friends already has left after one bad grade - he didnt have a 4.0 like me but a 3.8-3.9 freshman year
he was going to be dismissed anyway at the end of the year and there was no way he could bring his grades back up so he just said why stay here another term just to get kicked out. He transferred to a different school. I wasnt in as dire a situation as he was in and for me it still may be possible to stay in. For him, he was definitely going to be removed.</p>
<p>And bluedevilmike, I think you’re being slightly too cyncial. I dont’ see BA MD programs as a trap at all. Sure they want to bring students like you to their college but the stats to stay in the program really arent thattt terrible. Like basically you’d need these stats to get into medical school anyway. The only thing though is psychologically it can be very, very unsettling since for me at least my entire family, everyone my family knows - knows that I’m going to be a doctor. And if news comes at the end of this term that I’m kicked out, sure I can still try to apply to medical school, but its like I got into a program from which I’m going to be a doctor, and now they say I can’t be one, like I’m not smart enough. Getting kicked out is very unnerving psychologically I think. </p>
<p>But bluedevilmike you are 100 percent right in that they are presented as guaranteed programs, and are farrr from that. They are more like conditional acceptances. I think its a bit of false advertising to refer to them as guaranteed programs.</p>
<p>And norcalguy because of the incredible weight of Orgo (5 credits a term) even if I have a 4.0 from freshman year if I get a B- and a B- lets say in Orgo 1 and 2 with perfect grades in everything freshman year, my gpa wouldn’t be high enough to stay in the program. So one course can really hurt you.</p>