Medical School: Will one C in General Chemistry I hinder my chances?

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I am now a Junior and just finished fall semester.

My cumulative GPA is 3.73 and I have been doing good in all of my classes and constantly improving each semester. Freshman year first semester, I got my worst GPA of college (3.51) and that was mainly due to my C in General Chemistry.

This course was taught HORRIBLY. The chem department at my school SWEARS by this weird 'new age' teaching style where they basically chill in the front of the room, do ZERO lectures, and the students get in groups of 4 and 'teach each other'. Great idea when we are all freshman taking a 100 level course and no nothing on the topic! The 42% averages on the exams really showed this was working great! -_-

I've been told to retake for a better grade if I am worried but I feel I won't do much better so it won't really be worth it. They are STILL teaching it the same way even though every departing class writes horrible reviews on their course evaluations. 

Do you think I will be okay with this one C on my transcript?

OR1234 · Accepted Answer

Harvard won't like it.  The real problem is that you probably haven't learned much general chemistry, which will be a real problem when you take Organic or Biochem.  Then you'd be really screwed.  Could you retake it somewhere else and transfer the credits?  It seems that repeating something that didn't work the first time isn't going to work the second time either.

What kind of school teaches a tough course like Chem in this way?!  Maybe you really ought to think about transferring.  With that GPA it ought to be easy enough.  Tough decision.

Medical School: Will one C in General Chemistry I hinder my chances?

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