Help me strategize.. I have 2 C's :(

ali-ice
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:23:27 +0000

Keep in mind that that CC tends to err on the side of cautious.

However - with med school in mind look for:

1. Something affordable for undergrad. Med school isn’t cheap, and having minimal student loans (or ideally none) going into the process will help a lot. I’ve seen students hamstringed from even applying to MD/DO programs by the burden of student loans.

2. What kind of schools are you looking for? T30 suggest prestige but doesn’t indicate much else --but what do YOU want in a school? Big, small, medium overall size? Small class sizes? Lots of research opportunities? Which states or regions?

3. You want to find schools with good admission rates to MD/DO programs. These aren’t always T30 because some of those schools have ‘weed out’ classes for Biology/Chem/Physics. You want a school that WANTS students to succeed in STEM - not stop them from progressing in the field. This might be T30 but it might also be lower ranked schools that really focus on student learning rather than prestige.

When it comes down to it — We are just random folks on the internet. Do you have a school college counselor that is any good? Maybe check with them to see where students with your profile have gone. It’s hard to compare grades at one school to another.

ALSO – if it makes you feel any better, I got a “D” in college in my freshman year. Oh and also a “C” that year! I ended up with a really high GPA and got accepted to 8 of the 9 professional degree programs (same level of competition as MD/DO programs) that I applied to. One (or two) ‘bad’ (whatever you use to define that) grades isn’t a make or break kind of thing despite it feeling that way at the time.