Saturday, August 6, 2011

Will I still be able to get into dental school given the circumstances I have had this semester?

Hello, I am a junior in college and pre-dental biology major at a certain university in WV and I want someone to give me an honest answer about this problem. I had a 3.85 GPA until this semester and due to circumstances that I really could not control I had a terrible semester grade wise. I just took a total of 13 hours this semester and they were the following classes: Organic Chemistry, botany, TA, and Calculus and Engineering based physics II. I feel that I am going to come out with 2 C's (Botany and physics) a B (Organic Chem) and 1 A this semester and that is my 1 hour TA class. I have never made a C in anything my entire life. This year though I had several cases of bad luck. For instance, in October I had to miss a week of school for an emergency appendectomy and when I came back, professors really didn't help me much at all for what I missed for instance, I had to take a lab test in botany on the second day back to class. The college that I attend moved so fast that I was basically unable to catch up after going back to school. Additionally, I have had other problems such as a computer crash that deleted several important documents that I had to rewrite quickly. Finally, I got sick with food poisoning at the end of the semester here missed a test and missed my other class all in one morning. I got to retake this test in botany the next morning but I still was unable to catch up. All my peers around me tell me how hard of a worker I am and it seems though no matter how hard I try this semester I just cannot win. Before this series of bad luck hit me from October onward I had all A's and 1 B in physics. I have three more semesters of my undergraduate degree left. Will I have to make 4.0 each semester from here on out to make sure I get in or will they still not accept me? I know I can make 4.0 again I have before but the next few semesters will be rough as well but hopefully wont have as much bad luck. I did the best I could this semester and I have one week of class left (finals) to improve and I doubt doing good on my finals will really change much of my grades. Will I have to make 4.0 constantly now? Someone please help me and please give me an honest answer.

No comments:

Post a Comment