<p>I just finished my freshman year at Notre Dame. I am a mechanical engineering major (don’t necessarily want to be an engineer, but I know this degree will set me up for a multitude of future careers that fit my interests, including engineering, business, and medicine). My freshman year cumulative GPA is not so good. I am wondering if I should bother filling my future electives with premed prerequisites, on top of an already rigorous engineering curriculum–or if my poor grades this year have already basically excluded me from being accepted into a decent med school, and I should just focus on doing well in my engineering courses.</p>
<p>Freshman GPA: 2.82</p>
<p>Foundations of Theology: A-
Intro to Engineering I: B
Honors Seminar I: B-
Calculus III: B-
Intro to Chemistry: C+</p>
<p>Physics I: B+
Intro to Engineering II: C+
Honors Seminar II: B
Intro to Linear Algebra/Diff Equations: C</p>
<p>…Not my best work. However, I am not an idiot and I am well aware that I didn’t put nearly enough effort into my studies this year. </p>
<p>Assume I actually put in the time & effort, and get good grades (mostly A’s) in my classes from here on out (coincidentally, this is the same exact thing that happened to me in high school, and I managed to succeed at pulling up my grades)…do I have a chance of being accepted into a good med school?</p>
<p>I am in a special engineering honors program that only 20 engineering students from my class were accepted into (based on high school performance). I currently work at an on-campus caf</p>