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Doctors! I want to become a doctor but high school chemistry isn't my thing?
I am currently a high school sophomore. It is my life's dream to become a doctor. As a child a hospital was like a second home. I was always sick. Freshman year I took all regular classes. Got all high A's and a B in algebra one. This year I am in honors spanish 2 and honors chemistry. Honors chemistry isn't my thing though. I have gotten by with a B (80) first semester. second semester I got a c (75) i had a horrible teacher. He didn't teach. I don't know if it was me or him but the class didn't come easily. I know you need alot of chemistry in college. I don't know if I can do it. Next year I am taking regular physics,algebra 2, ap english, honors american history, one semester of sociology and one semester of physiology also honors spanish 3. I hope to get around a 26 on the act. Can I do it? Any tips? Thank You.
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- Arbitrary PersonLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You have two options:
1. Do well in chemistry in college. Get a tutor, form a study group, talk to your professor, study every day, do practice problems. Whatever needs to be done.
2. Don't become a doctor.
If you want to be a doctor that badly, you will find the motivation to push yourself to succeed. In college, you will have professors that are terrible. You need to learn how to succeed in those classes anyway.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You definitely need to learn chemistry because it is very important in becoming a doctor. I am going to apply to medical school most likely when I am done with my math degree and I have taken the prerequisites and some people who went in with high hopes, have gotten slaughtered by chemistry and they decided to give up. If you find chemistry hard now, it will only get harder unless you buckle down and find out what you're having trouble with and fixing it. You need to get a tutor or extra help from the teacher. You need to take notes and be serious in class. If you don't understand something, ask the teacher or classmate. Maybe even move away from friends. Sometimes that helps. You process information a lot easier because you have no distractions. Take notes during the lecture, asks questions when needed and do your homework and problems every night. If you do this you will for sure raise your mark. Tutoring helps a lot.
Source(s): Math major who will most likely go to medical school when done with my degree. Too many people who want to go into medicine, take the prerequisites and get slaughtered because they didn't prepare. They didn't think it was gonna be that tough. Organic chem is a killer for a lot of people. It's the one that really weeds out the overachievers. Be prepared to study extra hard because high school is a breeze compared to university. - Rohan.Lv 61 decade ago
Normally high school chem teachers are terrible. At least back in high school everyone I had ever had or heard about was bad.
College chemistry is a lot better, you have people that actually like chemistry and understand it. You also don't do useless things like memorizing the periodic table (every high school chem class includes this for some reason).
- 1 decade ago
Honestly? If you can't handle high school chemistry, you won't be able to do college chemistry. Especially not the dreaded Organic Chem. There are many other professions you can consider.