I’m typing this currently from my blackberry so forgive me if there are spelling errors.
When I started college the preident’s wife, Dr. Baker told all of the freshman to start strong because it is much easier to maintain a high GPA than to increase a low GPA. I took her advice seriously and did very well my freshman year which was very good because when senior year hit and I didn’t feel like doing my school work my high GPA buffered my senioritis. Well I think that advice definitly applies in medical school. By the time you come to the end of your 2nd year you have studied more than you studied for the 4 years of college so technically the senioritis comes back. However I really started strong my 1st year and 2nd year so thankfully my current contempt for studying pathophys may not hurt me too much. I am jsut truly tired of the grind right and preparing for step 1 and finals is just more stressful. So I’ve decided that I don’t care about my finals that don’t directly apply to step 1. And by not caring I mean that I don’t plan to study hard for it. Now if I was on the brink of failing a class then this strategy would be much more difficult. So yes my class rank may drop a bit or a lot but I’d be much more happy with a good step 1 score. So my advice to premeds who are about to start med school is START STRONG so you can rest later.
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