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<p>I don’t get it at all. I’m on the health track. Idk how many upper divs I need. So far, my schedule is filled up with lower div’s till spring of junior year (with summers)</p>
<p>Wait… are you still pre-med? o___O</p>
<p>I don’t know…am I? Is it possible to be after my nightmare?</p>
<p>A better question is should you become a doctor?</p>
<p>No offense, but you’ll be handling serious decisions that can and will directly affect a person’s health. Medical school will be way more work than college. Your grades show that you are unable to manage time properly and/or not intelligent (probably just the 1st one). How will you handle the future presuming you are accepted to a medical school?</p>
<p>Also, you’ll get better advice from your peers than from College Confidential. Talk to your friends</p>
<p>^Or it could always be that he went to a low ranking high school who did not teach him the skills necessary to compete in a competitive environment. </p>
<p>In that case, I would seriously recommended the OP to find someone who is scoring really well in his or her classes and to inquire about his or her study methods. (study groups, not using facebook while studying- i know this is obvious, but many people are too addicted) </p>
<p>Also try going to the SLC. Even if the tutors may not be top notch always, i’m sure they’ll be better than nothing.</p>
<p>thanks guys. yeah, i’ve used the tutors in the ASC before and they look at my like i’m stupid for asking them another question…as in “can’t u figure it out urself…it’s not that hard”. so I went to my gsi sometimes but we’d do like 1 problem in 30 mins or 1 hour. soo i guess i’d have to manage my time better by just studying with friends or somethin. i hired a private tutor, and he was horrible. so that didn’t work. </p>
<p>i’m just going to join study groups at the SLC now. again, the subjects i took last semester were dreadfully uninteresting to me, so that’s part of the reason. it’s hard to do good in something u hate. I was kind of stuck with those classes though because i ended up having to switch out of two other classes and these were the few that were left. i guess 2 of them worked out well, just the last one really effed up my transcript. i guess all i can do is get more A’s and B’s from now on. </p>
<p>and as far as being a doctor, I know that I don’t want to be a surgeon or anything like that because it’s putting someone else at risk by the type of doctor i want to be doesn’t require me to put someone’s life at risk. i would see patients and give them samples of medicine and then they come back to tell me what works. that’s what my mom’s doctor does. </p>
<p>i don’t know if any medical school would accept someone with a D though. I guess it IS freshman year, so if I improve all of my scores then that could work. in high school, i got mostly B’s in my classes freshman year, and then I improved all of my grades to A’s for the rest of the 3 years. however, berkeley doesn’t even look at freshman year so that was kind of different. they didn’t accept me because they saw freshman grades but didn’t care about how they were bad or anything.</p>
<p>What is it that makes you want to be a doctor? If it’s due to pressure from relatives, or because of potential earnings, things may not work out well. I know someone who went into our first semester with plans of being pre-med, but it was always obvious (to her and everyone else) that she had a great passion for history. She still followed the pre-med track for her first semester and took Chem 1A… And hated it. There’s a reason why they call it a weeder course. She struggled through it, ended up switching to P/NP, and switching her major to History like she should have to begin with. Later she said that she never really knew why she wanted to do pre-med, and that it mostly came from pressures from family and a really vague idea of what ‘being a doctor’ actually is.</p>
<p>So, if you have other passions, look into following them. If you still like taking science classes, and really know that you want to go into medicine, then keep going and try different study strategies so you can figure out what works for you, and ultimately get better grades. If not, figure that out sooner rather than later. You don’t need another semester full of GPA-wrecking classes that you can’t handle and don’t like. A great idea would be to shadow a physician in your particular field of interest for a day. You can learn more about the daily life of someone in medicine and you can better understand the realities of the profession. Then you can ask yourself, is this really for me?</p>
<p>No, it’s definitely not family or pressure. now that i am going into science, my parents want me to be a doctor but they never pressured me to do anything…not even homework when i was little. short story–i’ve gone through stuff that has made me want to become a doctor and help others in the same way because of what i had been through. </p>
<p>I kind of want to major in a language and do prereqs for premed but idk if i should do that. i think that the language would be fun to learn but the history part of it not so much. however i do love the culture and everything so it’s not like i wouldn’t want to do the work for it. but i think i’m sticking with bio right now. i don’t even know if i’ll have time do major in a language and do prereqs because i’m studying abroad.</p>
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<p>2 things:</p>
<p>1) you haven’t taken any real science classes
2) doctors don’t actually use much “science”</p>
<p>Clueless, my dear, a language probably isn’t the best major for you. Considering you just got a D in your breadth, a C in physics, and B-ish(assuming) in all your science courses (~3.0 overall), I would say that you should probably have a back up plan to med school. (Usually med schools would like a 3.5+ for just science GPA (and 3.7+ for overall)). Not to mention if you’re not doing well in your science courses, MCATs probably won’t go over well for you either. (yes, there is a correlation between how well you do in bio, chem, physics and your MCAT score).</p>
<p>I would suggest you major in something practical like engineering, econ, business, statistics or something… so that you have a back up in case med school doesn’t work out. You can still apply for med school, I’m just saying given what I know of your academic history, it might be beneficial for you to choose a more… practical major.</p>