Will a D in general chemistry I keep you out of medical school?

Colleges & Universities Emory University
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<p>I am curious.</p>

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<p>I’m a parent of a freshman at Emory so I am not an expert, but it would seem that where you apply and what the rest of your grades are would all come into play. I remember from talks that high school gave over the last couple years (for applying to colleges), there were questions like that - what if you had a bad semester, etc. If you have a good explaination and show improvement / that it was a fluke grade, they may be more forgiving. </p>

<p>Someone else just recently posted in a different thread I started recently asking if Emory sophmores still get a chance to apply to Emory Med School at the end of their soph year. Unfortunately that seems to not be offered any more, but they offered up these interesting pages about percent of Emory kids applying / getting into medical school:</p>

<p>If you wanna know stats of people who get into Emory’s MED SCHOOL, go to: Emory University School of Medicine</p>

<p>IF you wanna know stats about Emory UNDERGRADS who apply/get into any med school in the country, go to:
<a href=“http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/...009_Matrix.pdf[/url]”>http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/...009_Matrix.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
and
<a href=“http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/...010_Matrix.pdf[/url]”>http://www.career.emory.edu/parents/...010_Matrix.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>If you do better in your other pre med courses it won’t. The problem people run into come med school time is not applying to enough schools</p>

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<p>The problem, at least at Emory, isn’t so much that people aren’t applying to enough med schools, as most will do from 10-20 in an application cycle. The much bigger problems is how students have a skewed perception of their credentials and often overestimate their competitiveness relative to the overall applicant pool, and thus end up with a list of schools that is very top heavy, with none or very few REAL safety schools (safety as in they would have 90%+ chance of admission) or match schools (~50-60% chance of admission). Add that to the fact with how nearly 1/2 the people have <30 MCAT or <3.5 GPA (the conventionally quote minimum stats needed to be reasonably competitive to US allopathic schools). Point is apply broadly with the most of your schools being match schools, and you’ll likely get in to a good school. </p>

<p>To see how your stats stack up, someone at SDN has made this nifty excel sheet that you can download and enter your GPA and MCAT. The chart will compute your competitiveness at most MD schools, and some DO and Caribbean schools based on your LizzyM score and the schools avg LizzyM score (LizzyM score = 10*GPA + MCAT - 1). </p>

<p><a href=“Medical School Matriculants Data (SDN) - Google Sheets”>Medical School Matriculants Data (SDN) - Google Sheets;

<p>Essentially, you want to apply to the most schools where you get “Go for it” (essentially a match), and less “hopeful” (=reach), and none “long shot” (=almost no chance).</p>

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<p>100% agree. I think it is something that Emory should look into improving. Getting students matched up with the appropriate schools. A lot of students at Emory feel that since they at a top 20 undergrad it entitles them to a top 20 med school.</p>

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<p>yes…a D means you have to retake the course and possibly rethink whether medicine is right for you.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t say it means you HAVE to take. If you didn’t get a solid foundation then I would retake it. But if you got a D just because your own bad decisions (skipping classes, not doing HW, or whatever) then you can just move on if you have the foundation there.</p>

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<p>No, it won’t. Just do well from now on. You may want to take upper level chemistry classes to prove yourself.</p>