Nsekanabo Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 So I am in my second year with a very low GPA of 2.98 as a Business Administration student and i have made up my mind to fully commit to my studies and work extra hard to improve my GPA and hopefully graduate with a 3.5+ distinction. I am thinking of retaking some of the classes i did not perform well as a freshman just to boost my GPA and get rid of the Cs. Just looking for some motivation and honest opinions on what you think i should do, should i retake my first year classes or should i just keep on going and apply to Med schools that only focus on the last two years of undergrad once i graduate ? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridian Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 You probably do not want to re-take courses. Some med schools will not count the 2nd mark and you could then also be left without a full course load in that year removing the option to use weighted wGPA. Continue on with your program if you like the courses. Work at achieving +3.85 GPA going forward as +3.5 will not be competitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nsekanabo Posted January 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 3 hours ago, Meridian said: You probably do not want to re-take courses. Some med schools will not count the 2nd mark and you could then also be left without a full course load in that year removing the option to use weighted wGPA. Continue on with your program if you like the courses. Work at achieving +3.85 GPA going forward as +3.5 will not be competitive. I am in my second year right now, you really think it is possible to move from a 2.9 to a 3.9? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptors905 Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Nsekanabo said: I am in my second year right now, you really think it is possible to move from a 2.9 to a 3.9? You need 4.0 and full course loads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meridian Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 6 hours ago, Nsekanabo said: I am in my second year right now, you really think it is possible to move from a 2.9 to a 3.9? Med Schools all have different methods to do a weighted wGPA for application assessment. Only MAC uses the full 4 year cGPA. Dal which you reference, as example uses last 2 years. Note they do require full course load and do NOT like repeat courses. So keep going with full course load and work to achieve a high GPA. Your first year will not hurt you if you can do well in year 2,3,4 You will see many schools do similar things - Queens, Western, Ottawa, U of T all haved weighted GPA's. https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/admissions/admissions/gpa-requirement/degree-assessment.html https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/admissions/admissions/course-load-requirements.html Can you move from 2.9 to 3.9 ? It will be a lot of work and probably major changes to your approach. You can do it. Make full use of your schools resources (TA's, support hours, admin support, study groups). Nsekanabo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nsekanabo Posted January 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2020 On 1/17/2020 at 10:47 PM, Meridian said: Med Schools all have different methods to do a weighted wGPA for application assessment. Only MAC uses the full 4 year cGPA. Dal which you reference, as example uses last 2 years. Note they do require full course load and do NOT like repeat courses. So keep going with full course load and work to achieve a high GPA. Your first year will not hurt you if you can do well in year 2,3,4 You will see many schools do similar things - Queens, Western, Ottawa, U of T all haved weighted GPA's. https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/admissions/admissions/gpa-requirement/degree-assessment.html https://medicine.dal.ca/departments/core-units/admissions/admissions/course-load-requirements.html Can you move from 2.9 to 3.9 ? It will be a lot of work and probably major changes to your approach. You can do it. Make full use of your schools resources (TA's, support hours, admin support, study groups). Thank you very much, God bless you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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