Well, I’ve had a very rough semester this year and here’s a little bit about this story.
I am a first semester sophomore and I was premed, until I realized how much I don’t enjoy it. I actually realized I really have to force myself to like, enjoy, and understand the STEM classes I was taking. It got so bad to the point where I dropped my human physiology course with a W, barely scraped by with a B- in chemistry, and I’m at risk of failing physics (I say at risk because, while I am really under prepared for this final simply because, for the life of me, i cannot understand this course, my professor is known to curve heavily). Also, i’ve been going through some emotional stuff and my grades slipped. This is a drastic change from my last year GPA, which came out to a 3.78 combined.
I’ve always been a political science major and I’ve always enjoyed it far more than any of the classes ive taken in high school and college. Thats why I realized I wanted to stop premedicine and do something in the realm of politics. I didnt want to finish my studies without going to professional school and I felt law school was best suited for me.
My dream is to go to USC law and move back to my home state of California. I know they have a very high average GPA. My question is, will doing kind of poorly in these classes poorly affect my chances, even if I am able to bring my GPA up?
nothing about my gpa in the future is guaranteed of course, but I have done fairly well (A’s) in my junior level political science courses that are known to be challenging. I just really, really want to get into USC law and this grade slump has me really worried.
thanks guys!