<p>I feel so bad right now, especially since I knew that this didn’t have to happen.</p>
<p>Will medical schools look down on me now? The b+ was in a history class…i blame the professor big time. But I totally blame myself for not dropping the class.</p>
<p>UGH!</p>
<p>calm down. I B won’t kill you. A handful of Bs won’t stop you from getting into a top 10 med. school.</p>
<p>Well, you must have more than one B, because the deans list usually isn’t 4.0s, but more like 3.3, 3.5, 3.67+. Whats your cum gpa?</p>
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<p>my cum gap is 3.91. This was my only B, everything else was an A, and I was very shocked and surprised to not get on the list. </p>
<p>I guess I’m not really worried about losing any chances of getting into a good med school. Just not being on the list at all brings my confidence level down a whole lot…</p>
<p>Lol grade inflation? Thats a difficult deans list. You should be fine anyway. 3.7+ gpa puts in you good position to get into med school, along with other things (mcat, volunteer), not whether or not you got on the deans list.</p>
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<p>Does your school do two lists?</p>
<p>My kids’ school names the Dean’s List, but there are actually two lists (kind of odd).</p>
<p>President’s List…4.0… All A’s</p>
<p>Dean’s List…3.5 - 3.9… No C’s</p>
<p>Anyway…this one B+ isn’t going to hurt you. Med schools don’t care if your GPA is 3.9 or a 4.0.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, am I the only person who thinks there is something wrong with somebody who is distraught over 1 B+? You blame the Prof? You sound very grandiose.</p>
<p>I would be more worried over your emotional self than your GPA, I’m being serious.</p>
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If so, you are just gonna love the med school application process. My suggestion? Look for internal validation modalities. You , and all other applicants, are going to need it. This process will cripple you otherwise.</p>
<p>GA2012MOM, I guess I don’t really hate the professor for what happened, but I’m upset with how the situation unfolded. I had the chance to withdraw from the class, but I didn’t because I thought I needed to take it (it was an Honor’s program requirement). But after the class was over, I realized the Honor’s program was a bad idea and that not many pre meds took it. I also discovered a hidden major at the school. If I knew about this major beforehand and dropped out of Honor’s, I would have easily withdrawn from the class.</p>
<p>Getting a B+ was bearable. But seeing that that one mistake kicked me out of so many things was devastating. I just have a feeling that if people (including admissions committees) see I can’t even make it to the dean’s list, then they’d think I’m an idiot for applying to med school, that’s all. </p>
<p>So, curmudgeon, I’m alright with getting rejected from a college (if that’s what ur trying to tell me), but I won’t be alright if it’s because I made one simple mistake.</p>
<p>mom2, the way things work in my school is that there’s a dean’s list which is similar to the one you described, and a dean’s list “with distinction,” similar to the President’s list. It’s funny how I was on the dean’s list with distinction last semester, but I’m on nothing this semester.</p>
<p>But what if you do everything right and still get summarily rejected? Never to know why? That’s med school.</p>
<p>^^I concur with curm. Med school admissions are brutal. You can do everything perfectly and still get rejected. And you’ll never know why. You just don’t hear back from them. Ever. Until your rejection email shows up 6 months later. Or you’ll get auto-rejected less than 12 hours after you submit. Either way sucks.</p>
<p>OP, you need to chill. Life is about making mistakes and learning from them. It’s about admitting you aren’t perfect (and Powers Above forfend me from doctors who think they are!) and still carrying on.</p>
<p>If you’re this upset about such a trivial thing, then life is going to one big succession of disappointments for you.</p>
<p>Yep! Your chance is zero…because of inability to cope. Got to improve in this big time.</p>
<p>Hold on people. Idk why in this thread the fact that I’m sad about not getting on the list shows that I’m not ready to face med school applications.</p>
<p>We all know that getting on the list is a concrete thing; either you get the grades to qualify, or you don’t. So the mistake I made made my fate clear; I’m not getting on the dean’s list. I’m irked that a trivial mistake I made knocked me out of a list that I bet every pre med is on. </p>
<p>Also, we all know that getting into medical school is different than that; its not concrete, and I’ll never know which of my mistakes were ignored or used against me. I applied to the Rice/Baylor program and several months later I randomly found a rejection letter in my junk email box. There was no reasoning for rejection. But I was ok with that, because I knew I tried my best. </p>
<p>My original question was if all medical schools will look down on me seeing that I couldn’t pass a concrete test, the dean’s list. In other words, is the fact that I wasn’t on the dean’s list a clear indication to med schools that I’m not worthy? If it is, that’s seriously unfair to me, because I know I’m a lot better than that.</p>
<p>Dean’s list or no Dean’s list–it’s a trivial thing and in and of itself won’t keep you out of med school. Med schools look at a much bigger picture w/r/t admissions.</p>
<p>Your GPA and MCAT only gets you in the door. Once you’ve crossed the school’s minimum ‘acceptable’ threshold, it’s all ‘other stuff’ that admission committees look at. (Some of which you have control over; some of which you don’t.)</p>
<p>In school, at work and in life things don’t always go as planned. Bulletin boards like this are a great place to vent but then you have to suck it up and move on. If it makes you feel any better, my daughter got a C+ one semester in a pre-med course and still had excellent choices at the end of her med school application cycle. </p>
<p>No matter what your pre-med peers are saying, you don’t have to be on the Dean’s List every semester to get into medical school. Try to enjoy undergrad.</p>
<p>PHEW, alright. Thank you everyone, you’re all very enlightening and I feel a whole lot better about what happened. </p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>^You need to learn to make yourself feel better by yourself, not others. Forget about B+, C+, whatever, these are nothing as long as your college GPA by application time is reasonable. However, being too jumpy about those B+… is another story. Need to be able to stay cool for little things like that. There are going to be many more challenges, particularly during interview. Nobody will be there to calm you down. Some people (very very few, but they exist) will try to put you down just to see how you react. Self-assessment, knowing where you are, what is your clear goal, why are you engaging yourself in certain activities (your personal reasons, not somebody else’s and not because it looks good on application) - focus on developing these skills, they will be needed much more than another A…and, of course the fact that your car might break down on a way to interview, then what? Or person who was supposed to be waiting for you in completely strange city is not there and not even answering your calls and it is getting very late and dark and your interview is tomorrow morning. Staying cool, going thru your options in cool manner is a big advantage of successful applicant. Best wishes, you still have ton of times to take care of important stuff.</p>
<p>But, you have a 3.91!! No one sees that as odd that the OP isn’t on the deans list? You go to Canisius correct? This is from their site</p>
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<p>A 3.91 would qualify you. Did you get an incomplete or take less than 12 credits? If not, there was a mistake and you should call the deans office and tell them about it.</p>
<p>The OP wants to brag about his/her 3.9. The OP is pretending to be distraught over a B+ so he/she can brag about how awesome his/her grades are. I have seen kids on the “What are my chances” forum do the same thing. They act like they are distraught about only scoring a 2300/2400 or only being salutatorian of their high school class. The get on this forum to see if other people will praise their accomplishments.</p>
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<li>Get over yourself and stop being all depressed over 1 B+.</li>
<li>One B+ definitely won’t kill you. I know people that have gotten many B’s (and even a couple C’s), and they still got into some good med schools. Only your overall GPA matters.</li>
<li>You’re mad about…the Dean’s list? Really, nobody cares about that list. Med schools really couldn’t care less about it. And I doubt that EVERY pre-med is on that list. There’s better ways to make yourself stand out than by being on the Dean’s list.</li>
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