How badly did I screw up?

WayOutWestMom
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:52:00 +0000

You’ve only completed one semester of college? Right?

If so it’s too soon to give up hope (esp if you’re willing to consider osteopathic med schools), but you’re in a deep, deep, deep hole you may not be able to get out of. You need to figure PDQ what you’re doing wrong w/r/t how you approach studying in college and fix it. If you can turn things around and earn only or mostly As (Sorry, Bs won’t cut it for med school…) from here on out, you have a chance.

But what are the odds that you’ll completely turn things around?

That I can’t answer. I don’t know you, what your work ethic is like, why you’re doing so poorly, what your pre-college prep is like, what your native aptitude for math/science is like…

It’s really easy to say, “I’ll do better” but surprisingly hard to actually do better.

Maybe it would be a good thing to step back and take some non-science courses and see how things go next semester. Maybe you’ll find a subject are where you’ll shine. If you still feel the call to medicine after a couple of semesters, if you’re confident you understand how to be successful in college, then pick one or two science retakes and see how it goes.