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

DadTwoGirls
Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:04:31 +0000

unic:

How badly is those going to hurt my chances for T30.

You might think of “top 30” universities as very high reaches at this point. However…

unic:

Ive been thinking of premed what would I do?

There are hundreds of colleges and universities that are very good for premed students. You do not need to attend a “top 30” university for your bachelor’s degree to get accepted and do well at a very good medical school. You are still solidly on track to get accepted to many universities that would be very good for a premed student.

You might want to think of these two C’s as a lesson. There are some classes that you are not yet ready to take. All students need to take classes at the pace and in the order that makes sense for them personally.

Let me give you an example. Occasionally we hear from students here on this web site that are taking organic chemistry as a freshman in university and who are suffering. I know a couple of students who postponed organic chemistry until their junior year of university. One called it “the hardest B- that I ever had in my life”, but still got accepted to multiple very good DVM programs (and is currently doing well in one of those DVM programs). The other breezed through it relatively easily (and is about to start a PhD). Neither would have been ready to handle it when they were a freshman in university. Waiting and first taking the appropriate prerequisites helped both of them.

If you look at the students in a very good MD program, you will find that they got their bachelor’s degrees at a very, very wide range of universities.

Whenever I see “premed”, two other things come to mind. One is that medical school is expensive. Even doctors do not make enough money to make it easy to pay off their education debt. The other is that most students who start university thinking “premed” end up doing something else. Some end up for example in biotech. Some end up as software engineers, or lawyers, or something completely different. For students who are thinking of medical school, it pays to also consider other options.

unic:

Im from NY

You are a strong student (1530 SAT is for example impressive). You are coming from a state that has multiple very good in-state public universities. To me it looks like you are solidly on track to attend a very good university that will both allow you to be well prepared for medical school, and that will also be very good for multiple majors that can put you on track for other possible careers. Your in-state public schools also are likely to be relatively affordable and might (depending upon your budget) allow you to save some $$ in the bank for medical school or graduate school, or might at least allow you to avoid or minimize debt.

I am reluctant to repeat myself too often from other threads, but I have known a LOT of students who attended universities ranked anywhere from 50 to 150 for their bachelor’s degree, and who then got some type of graduate degree (masters, or MD, or DVM, or PhD) in programs that were ranked anywhere from 1 to perhaps 20 or 30. What you do as an undergraduate student is going to matter a LOT more than where you do it.

One note about GPA: Different high schools in the US calculate weighted GPA in wildly different ways. This makes it very hard to compare. This is why several have asked for an unweighted GPA on an “A=4, B=3, C=2” scale.

Other comments have given the same main point: Getting two C’s is a lesson, but is something similar to what a lot of us have gone through and still done very well.