Hello. Hopefully someone here will be able to help me because my academic advisor is not capable of doing so.
I'm a college sophomore and I know what I want to pursue: medical school. I have one obstacle that keeps intervening though; my seizures flare up during times of stress (like studying for midterms).
About a month ago I suffered a seizure which resulted in me sustaining a head injury and missing two weeks of class. When I came back, midterms were already over and I needed to catch up on a ton of material quickly. I finished my Gen Chem midterm on Wednesday and got it back Friday; I failed miserably. Essentially, I am allowed to correct the test, and I'm going to, but I will still have a failing grade. This exam was 45% of my overall grade, so now my best case scenario is that I will pass the class with a C/C-.
This has happened before, and because of it my freshman gpa was about a 2.8, with one prereq (intro to cell bio) finished with a C.
The support services at my school suck, and have not been helpful at all. I've been granted slight extensions on a few assignments, but that's it. I've gone to office hours, worked with professors, but it's really difficult to make up for missing huge chunks of course instruction. I was thinking of taking some bio courses not offered at my school over the summer at the local state college (I am a resident of a state with good public schools) to boost my gpa. Is that a good idea?
I scored a 2340 on the SAT, so hopefully that will correlate to a decent MCAT score. I spent last summer collecting volunteer hours and I'm still accumulating hours when I have the time. I attend a small private lib arts school, so hopefully I will be able to attach myself to a research project at some point.
Right now I'm terrified. I'm scared that I'm wasting my time, that the two prereqs I've already taken have ruined my chances at any acceptance and that any future effort is futile. This is causing me a huge amount of anxiety and making my performance otherwise even worse. Has anyone been in this position before? What did you do? Next semester I'm taking two prereqs, and fall semester 2013 I'll take four so I need to figure something out fast.
I'm a college sophomore and I know what I want to pursue: medical school. I have one obstacle that keeps intervening though; my seizures flare up during times of stress (like studying for midterms).
About a month ago I suffered a seizure which resulted in me sustaining a head injury and missing two weeks of class. When I came back, midterms were already over and I needed to catch up on a ton of material quickly. I finished my Gen Chem midterm on Wednesday and got it back Friday; I failed miserably. Essentially, I am allowed to correct the test, and I'm going to, but I will still have a failing grade. This exam was 45% of my overall grade, so now my best case scenario is that I will pass the class with a C/C-.
This has happened before, and because of it my freshman gpa was about a 2.8, with one prereq (intro to cell bio) finished with a C.
The support services at my school suck, and have not been helpful at all. I've been granted slight extensions on a few assignments, but that's it. I've gone to office hours, worked with professors, but it's really difficult to make up for missing huge chunks of course instruction. I was thinking of taking some bio courses not offered at my school over the summer at the local state college (I am a resident of a state with good public schools) to boost my gpa. Is that a good idea?
I scored a 2340 on the SAT, so hopefully that will correlate to a decent MCAT score. I spent last summer collecting volunteer hours and I'm still accumulating hours when I have the time. I attend a small private lib arts school, so hopefully I will be able to attach myself to a research project at some point.
Right now I'm terrified. I'm scared that I'm wasting my time, that the two prereqs I've already taken have ruined my chances at any acceptance and that any future effort is futile. This is causing me a huge amount of anxiety and making my performance otherwise even worse. Has anyone been in this position before? What did you do? Next semester I'm taking two prereqs, and fall semester 2013 I'll take four so I need to figure something out fast.