to infinity & beyond

also me:

“I think it’s a b-flat.”

A while ago, various medblrs were sharing low grades they’d gotten to help show that it’s not the end of the world if you have a C on your transcript. Now that I’ve been accepted to med school, too, I wanted to show you my grades, because I am the poster girl for “a C won’t keep you from going to medical school.” 

It’s worth noting that I’m a post-bacc student, so I have a lot more grades in general than your average undergrad. It’s also true that my Cs (and that one D) weren’t in my post-bacc classes. But it seems to me that many pre-med students find it hard to believe that someone with these grades in any class could be accepted, and unnecessarily beat up on themselves if they have even one or two low grades. (And I included those B minuses above precisely because even a B- can feel like the end of the world to a pre-med sometimes.)

in case anyone is convinced this is an anomaly, I had a brief look at a copy of my transcripts, and here’s what it looked like for me at the time I applied:

I went the grad school route before I applied because I thought there was a possibility that research would be my thing. Turns out I was wrong, but that’s why I have so many classes here.

Having a range of grades instead of all As and Bs is not the end of the world, folks. As noted in the picture, half my prereqs had grades in the C- to C+ range.

Grades are only one facet of the application process. 

is it obvious that I was in undergrad for a long time?

2016: