<p>I'm entering my sophomore year at UF. My first year could have been better, more specifically spring semester. </p>
<p>I entered as a undecided science major in the fall and had a 3.8 GPA</p>
<p>After fall I randomly decided to become an accounting major and bombed this semester and got a 3.1</p>
<p>This summer I am interning for a company as an accounting major and have realized IT IS NOT FOR ME!</p>
<p>I am going back to my original plan and fulfilling my pre med classes and am thinking of switching to Economics major (Lib Arts).</p>
<p>Ideally I would like to get my GPA up to A 3.7 but am thinking a 3.5-3.6 is more likely.</p>
<p>What is the general opinion of med school admissions on having one bad semster taking classes that aren't even related??</p>
<p>It’s just one semester, if you have a good positive trend from now on (and your GPA is back up to a competitive level like 3.7), it won’t cost you too much. They might ask you about it though.</p>
<p>yeah, that’s what I figured. i guess a good thing from this would be that if I get an interview and they ask “Why Medicine?” I have a better answer than people who say “I’ve always wanted to be a doctor”. I will have experience in another field, and can use that as my motivation for wanting to go to med school.</p>
<p>It would be a better answer if you had excelled at that field but not liked it.</p>
<p>I’m not switching becuase I didn’t excel at the subject…I could easily continue with accounting (my accounting GPA is like a 3.7)…it was an unrelated course to accounting that caused my GPA to go down. I’m switching becuase after gaining experience in the field, I realized that accounting is something I do not enjoy.</p>
<p>If it wasn’t a BCPM course, then you’ll be fine. It’s much easier to bring up your overall GPA from one poor class than it is your science GPA because there’s simply more of them to negate the one poor grade.</p>