Hello,
I am a first year student for the med school game. I went to an academically poor public highschool in a countryside in ontario and the
transition from high school to UofT has been rather tumultuous.
I have received B- in BIO120H, B+ in MAT135H, C in CHM139H, and currently have 62 in ECO100. I have not been partying or wasting any time. I didn’t even get to explore the city yet and have been stuck in the library every single day studying.
I have changed my studying habits twice since I came to UofT and still seems like my habits are not working.
I have figured that I will have an “average GPA” to apply to med school only if I take 22.0 credits throughout 4 years and attain 4.0 in every
single course until I graduate, which seems highly unlikely based on how I am performing right now.
Is it possible to repeat first year? Would UofT scrap my past academical history and let me start fresh?
Even if I transfer to another university, attaining 4.0 every single semester is the only option to med school now.
I need some advice,
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Heyo … mystery person,
I think you have the dream of all university students, burning those terrible first year marks. Unfortunately there’s nothing you can do about them, they are carved in stone, tattooed on skin, written in ink … you get the jist. The only thing you can do now is get awesome future marks.
Some universities will put into consideration the improvement of your grades.
Transferring schools really won’t help your situation either, you are required to disclose all your mark to your incoming university.
I really don’t think this is the end of your medical career.
Here are some steps that you can take:
1) Look at the med school requirements for various schools. Here are the requirements for the Canadian medical schools. The CGPA range is quite varying between the universities.
2) U of T offers some pretty gosh-darn-tooting resources for academic success. University is not highschool and an adjustment to your study techniques and how you approach school needs to be made.?Don’t glare at me like that … all students go through this awkward transition phase. It’s kind of like an academic puberty.?There are also academic workshops that help with studying, note taking, kicking ass at exams etc.
3) Explore alternatives. I know, I know, ?TV makes doctors look pretty effing awesome, but there really are other professions in the medical field that are pretty cool. I have a lot of smarty pants friends who entered their undergrad with the sole intention of going into med school. Then throughout their undergrad their interests stemmed and for no fault of their marks they chose not to go to med school.? Rumor has it that only 15% of applicants get a position in the first round. This is both because of competition and because they want to see who wants it bad enough to apply over and over … and over again.
Good luck grasshopper
forever always,
aska