My child wants to go to med school but hangs out with blue collar students who are pursuing less academic degrees

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Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots and lots of kids say they want to be doctors. Then they go to college. They have fun. And get a B in organic chemistry..and then they go to find a different career path. If the path to being a doctor were easy (@nd inexpensive) there would be a million doctors. Geez. It’s not the “people around him.”

ummm...a B in orgo chem means you made it

Agree! A B in orgo is just fine for medical school! However OP kid appears to have Bs in almost all stem classes so far. That means med school is likely already off the table unless OP wants to gun for a postbac or better yet a masters in a hard science after undergrad and get all As and get published. A 3.0-3.2 science GPA after 3 semesters in college makes med school highly improbable, even DO school. One or two Bs, in orgo or calc or chem, ie a 3.7-3.8 science GPA after 3 semesters is excellent and renders US-med school acceptance very possible. There is a wide gap between those students.

I agree. The most competitive med schools and even DO schools will be off the table with a history of B's. Pre-meds funnel very quickly after the first year with usually the gen bio and gen chem classes. Depending on the school. organic chemistry may be the weed out class, but in many it isn't. As you say, 3.1, 3.2 in course science BCPM means you have dug yourself a real hole. Maybe the OP's child has done that already.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Lots and lots and lots of kids say they want to be doctors. Then they go to college. They have fun. And get a B in organic chemistry..and then they go to find a different career path. If the path to being a doctor were easy (@nd inexpensive) there would be a million doctors. Geez. It’s not the “people around him.”

ummm...a B in orgo chem means you made it

Agree! A B in orgo is just fine for medical school! However OP kid appears to have Bs in almost all stem classes so far. That means med school is likely already off the table unless OP wants to gun for a postbac or better yet a masters in a hard science after undergrad and get all As and get published. A 3.0-3.2 science GPA after 3 semesters in college makes med school highly improbable, even DO school. One or two Bs, in orgo or calc or chem, ie a 3.7-3.8 science GPA after 3 semesters is excellent and renders US-med school acceptance very possible. There is a wide gap between those students.

I agree. The most competitive med schools and even DO schools will be off the table with a history of B's. Pre-meds funnel very quickly after the first year with usually the gen bio and gen chem classes. Depending on the school. organic chemistry may be the weed out class, but in many it isn't. As you say, 3.1, 3.2 in course science BCPM means you have dug yourself a real hole. Maybe the OP's child has done that already.

You know what they call the guy who graduates with the worst grades from the least competitive med/OD school?


Doctor.