undergrad

I am only a Junior in undergraduate school at the University of Alabama. I am majoring in psychology and minoring in biology on a pre-medical route. I currently am really struggling with my GPA due to not working hard enough freshman year. My overall is a 3.205 and my pre medical GPA is a 2.333...

Hello sdn users, I'm seeking some advice about what my next move should be at this point. I currently have a cum. gpa of 2.52. Due to personal issues I went from being an honor-roll student to the current grade I now have. The past two quarters I finally decided to take a break from school and...

Hello everyone! I'm new to this site - please forgive me if I'm not doing something right, I'm just getting adjusted! Anyway, I am in my first year of undergraduate and I have a dual major, forensic science and biological sciences with a cellular/molecular concentration. I am doing really well...

I had a 4.0 GPA from undergrad and my masters GPA is looking like a B. Will this downward trend reflect poorly on me during my med school application? Or will the grad school grade not really have much weight? I've heard mixed things about how a grad GPA is evaluated.

Hey everyone, A bit about me: I'm 18 and just graduated high school this past spring (went to a US boarding school... think Andover, Exeter, etc.). I'm a Canadian citizen and I'm currently taking a gap year. Since I'll be applying to college this fall, I wanted to get some opinions on where I...

hi everyone, I am an undergrad student currently (sophomore). I am in the first semester of my sophomore year, and I currently have a 3.87 GPA with a major in biology. I have 56 volunteer hours as a counselor for a camp for kids with JRA, and I am volunteering currently at Ronald McDonald House...

Hi. I have live in Ireland all my life and I am going into an undergraduate medical degree in trinity university in Ireland. It lasts 5 years and I have just completed my leaving cert which is the equivalent of a high school diploma. I want to leave Ireland after I finish and pursue further...

I am dual AA/diploma recipient currently attending the University of Florida as a freshman and currently have 15 credits. My academic adviser has a huge issue with my course load: Organic I, Physics (W/O calc) with lab I, Human Physiology, Economics food issues, and and introductory course to...

Hi everyone! I'm new to SDN after seeing how beneficial this site seems to be! I'm entering my sophomore year of college, but technically am a junior (senior?) with 91 credits. A biology-healthcare-science major with minors in spanish and chemistry. So far: 3.99 GPA I have held a job for 2...

Hi, I want to be a doctor. It's not an out of the blue decision but an interest that has stuck and has never changed since the beginning of high school. I've wanted to be a plastic surgeon since junior(ish) year of high school and am currently on the baby steps of being one this fall. I'm...

if a high school student did dual enrollment and graduated with their AA with some premed prerequisites during high school, as dual credit would you retake the prerequisites or no? Some med schools I contacted said they will accept the credits as long it was done at junior college. And the...

I have read hundreds of blogs on here, including all that relate to this question. However I was hoping for more guidance. I am a biomedical engineering student starting senior year and will probably graduate w/ 3.2. I have strong EC (shadowing,research,etc). I was thinking it would be better...

I'm currently an undergrad student in a 7 yr BSDO program. I plan to take the MCAT next year and switch to an MD school. I would really appreciate it if anyone can please give me some tips or advice on the following: what MCAT prep courses and/or books really help when is the best time to start...

So to start off, my highschool GPA was horrendous. Quite frankly I had no intention to go into post secondary after highschool and generally had no interest in school; I hardly graduated. Upon doing some upgrading i got into university but my plan was software engineering. During the first year...

Hello! At my school, we have a sophomore level undergraduate embryology class. I tried taking this last year at the same time I was taking Organic Chem and I knew the first week it would be too much so I dropped the class. Best decision I made all semester! I was wondering if anyone had any...

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Any current or former pre-meds from UT Arlington out there please share your experience at UT Arlington! I am thinking about transferring from UT Austin and want to get a feel for how the school's pre-med experience is. Would you endorse it as a quality education for what you pay? If i put in...

I am quite interested in becoming a Psychiatrist, I have known a lot of people with a mental illness and many members of my family suffer from mental illness, and it has caused me to gain a great interest in being a psychiatrist and helping others. But I am also very very passionate about...

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Greetings, I'm not sure if anyone else is on the same boat as me but I definitely feel alone on this one. Unfortunately, due to not qualifying for anything but loans, I will be graduating with about 100k (interest included) in student debt from undergrad. Yes, most of that consists of private...

Hi! Welcome to your UCBX pep talk! If you're like me, you're midway through your biochem course thinking "HM, I wonder what I should expect for the final..." So you turn to google or SDN, and what you find might hit your stomach like a sack of bricks. For me, this was real, mind consuming fear...

From the other threads about including fraternity membership in your AMCAS app, it seems clear that listing a fraternity leadership position can be a good idea. I was the rush chair one year and had a great experience with that so I am definitely including it. I was also "Risk Manager"...

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So i'm currently an undergrad junior in college. My goal is to get into an anesthesiology program somewhere in nyc, (probably suny downstate). As is stands my application probably isn't going to be good enough. I'll probably graduate with about a 3.3 GPA about 2 straight years of research, with...

So I have been hired as a Summer Research student at a hospital with a renowned cardiologist. I am helping this doctor with this clinical research (dry lab - data entry every day) alongside a team of summer students. The problem is I am not very interested in this specialization and the work is...

Hi there! I'm new to SDN, so apologies if this has been posted before. I could use some advice. I'm currently in my freshmen year of undergrad, majoring in psychology. My goal is to go to med school and become a psychiatrist. I was homeschooled for high school, and I feel like that has really...

I was looking through several medical school checklists, and alongside some of the vital points such as GPA and MCAT was "what you did over summer." For those who are now applying to medical school or have already gotten in/attending, what is your idea of a "proper" summer? I am currently a...

This is yet again another freshman with anxiety spiking towards the roof. I, unfortunately, have a horrid history when it comes to studying and not knowing how to take proper notes. Due to this, my GPA is a 3.0 as a Bio and English Dual Major. I know this may not sound horrible as most GPA's but...

Hi everyone! I was talking to my advisor today about how since I have the space in my schedule, I would like to take classes in the sciences that a biology major wouldn't take, just because they interest me. I told her I wanted to take intro to environment, astronomy, Jurassic physics, Etc...

Hello! I got into UF (UF Honors) and UVa for undergrad. I plan on majoring in biology, going on the pre-med track. UF is my state school, so it's almost free (about 3K tuition). UVa would cost me about 32K tuition. Putting cost aside, which school is better for premed in terms of course work...

I posted about this earlier but I wasn't specific enough. My tuition is covered in both schools but at Austin I have to take out a loan for housing while at Houston I'll be commuting. I believe taking out a loan will be an investment in my future because my goal is to get into medical school. I...

I am currently an undergrad bio major at Rutgers University and just calculated my science GPA and it is low as hell! My overall GPA is a 3.1 but my science GPA is a 2.3! I failed Orgo twice before finally passing with a C. I've basically gotten C's in nearly all of my science classes except...

Hello everyone, I am currently a sophomore at university and I am on the pre-pharmacy track. I am a chemistry and psychology major (also a prospective biology minor due to successful completion of pre-pharmacy pre-requisites simultaneously completing a biology minor at my institution). I want...

Posting this for one of my students who has recently been accepted into both programs. The schools are comparable in terms of COA, and seem fairly similar in terms of ranking and reputation. Could someone shed light on the intangibles - competitive nature/toxicity? community? grade...

I just transferred to UT Austin from a Junior College where i played 2 years of college baseball. This is my first semester at UT and I'm not very happy...I am from Dallas and that's basically where my life is. I would be a lot happier attending UT Dallas, and I would save money. Does graduating...

So i just got rejected from all of the research programs I applied for, and I really would still like to have an internship under my belt before I take the MCAT next summer. I was wondering if there are any research/internship opportunities that i could still apply to that have deadlines in...

Hi, I'm a current upper sophomore in undergrad majoring in Psych, minoring in Biology, and minoring in Neuroscience. I plan on going to school for my PSYD in Clinical Neuropsychology. So far I don't have any clinical experience, but I was a researcher's assistant last semester and got promoted...

First of all, I am sure all of you are sick and tired of my type of sob story. Kids like me who have no direction with flighty interests come in here to lament their lack of decisiveness to a bunch of strangers :). I am a high school student (a senior) who loves learning new things, and I've...

HI, I wanted to know some tips that all of the people who have gone through organic chemistry, physics, biochem, etc. for MCAT/Med School have about doing well (aka getting an A!). Whatever your experiences were, what you would recommend doing/avoiding, good study strategies, any ideas/thoughts...

How do you guys get a GPA above 3.7? More specifically, how do you approach studying for midterms for Biology and Chem. There is so much material, how do you remember all of it?