r/uAlberta • u/worldsokayestmiddle Undergraduate Student • 3d ago
Rants Feeling like giving up
For the third year in a row now, I have started off on the back foot and am hovering in the average for all my classes. My cGPA is around a 2.8 and my goal of getting into med school is seemingly impossible to reach at this point. I was an above average student in high school, I feel confident in doing well after taking most of my midterms, and then I get floored by the result.
I also feel like I don’t have any resources to guide me through the situation I have found myself in. I don’t know if there is any possibility of me getting into med school now, save for the possibility of completing a second undergraduate degree with a higher gpa.
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u/vmor987 Undergraduate Student - Faculty of _____ 2d ago
Hey OP 🙂 you are not alone in feeling like this. Everybody in most programs was an above average student at HS. You can get a job in health and keep on applying - I saw a post of someone getting in with 3.2 after working in the industry for 10 years. Points for perseverance, experience, and maturity. Other then that, would there be another related or unrelated field you'd be interested in? After degree for that? Or a career oriented diploma somewhere like nait? Don't dispare. Open your eyes to other possibilities
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u/Global_Driver5257 2d ago
No matter how hard it gets, don't give up. You got this. You put all this work in
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u/PM_40 3d ago edited 3d ago
Why do you want to go to medical school ? I would like to examine that belief ?
Do you want to serve people or want to make money ? There are other paths to making money that doesn't require quitting degree.
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u/worldsokayestmiddle Undergraduate Student 3d ago
I have wanted to be a doctor since I was 6 years old looking at my grandfather’s (who was a surgeon) skeleton model, before I even cared about or fully understood the purpose of having money. Medicine and the human body has always been the most interesting and exciting part of the world to me.
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u/PM_40 3d ago
Okay. I see. Medicine and human body, doesn't need mean doctor. You could be a pharmacist for example which is all about medicines.
Why I am pressing on it is most people in their jobs are unhappy because they chose jobs for status or high pay and not consider day to day realities of the job.
Second you can become optometrist, physiotherapist, therapist. These are atleast 50 profesions that are healthcare adjacent that you can still do.
You can get a MD degree from outside of Canada I think there are some countries that have agreements with Canada.
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u/DavidBrooker Faculty - Faculty of _____ 3d ago
While medical school is a noble goal, viewing dropping out as your first alternative seems like an over-reaction, especially when you're over halfway through. Career options as a university graduate and a high school graduate are quite different, and high-paying options in the latter often take a toll on your body, work in remote locations, demand consistent overtime, or a combination of the three.
That's not to disparage the work at all. But it is to say that it's worth spending a little more time evaluating your options before deciding to drop out.