Did you not see my above comment about my senior year grades and courseload? 4.75 senior year GPA with 7 ap classes (and 1 regular anatomy class because pre-ap and ap anatomy don’t exist) + college apps? Pretty strong improvement if you ask me. I’m not a weak student, I was just admittedly very lazy the last few years. It will not happen in college. Trust me, I regret the last few years enough to make sure it never happens again. Last year when I took AP Chem (and made an A) the class was known to be so difficult that students who go on to places like UT and A&M end up sending emails to the teacher thanking them for making the class more difficult, because their science classes (at least in freshman and sophomore year) are easier or the same difficulty as the ap chem class. No joke, that class was brutal but totally worth it.
I agree that the foundation of math and science is very important for a pre-med. I guess I should have been more clear in that other thread, but I have all a’s for science classes except physics 2 and first-semester freshman bio (ugh). And that includes a total of 8 years of science, including the ap and pre-ap variants of chemistry and biology, ap physics 1 and 2, AP Environmental science, and anatomy. Math was off to a rough start, but I’ve been scoring a’s this year in ap calc bc and stat. I’m honestly lucky that I was allowed into ap calc bc but I’m glad I was.
Some people aren’t lucky in that they have informed parents or guidance counselors to instill upon them the importance of high school and get to live in the same city their whole life (I’ve moved states 4 times, let alone across town and different schools). My older sister was even the type of person to constantly downplay highly selective schools as “overrated” so you can see what I got to work with. Luckily I’ve realized the importance of all this stuff before starting college, when it {really} matters.