You are literally 18 years old. You have another 7 semesters minimum before it's time to submit your final grades to med school, and the first one is easier than the rest. Just because its easier though doesn't mean you can't do better in the next ones.

Wait until Ochem and let us know if you still want to be a doctor after that. At uni there are weeder courses and they purposely make the average grade in those something like a C so that a majority of students fail or receive medschool destroying grades and are discouraged from continuing the premed track. Seriously at my university 25% failure rate for Ochem. That's every fourth kid.


I personally failed a class my first semester, and several more 2nd year and 3rd year but graduated in the end and got a job in the field I wanted which was aerospace engineering. My gpa was shit in the end and it really didn't matter because I didn't intend to do a masters or phd or med school. I only had to do 4 years and that was it. I can work in the field of my choice and my grades will be never be asked about again 3 years after university.

Anyways there are some 5000 premeds out of 20000 students at my university and a great majority of them switch because they don't make it. Don't forget once you finish your first 4 years you have another 8 after that. I had a friend that realized 9 more years of this shit in his 3rd year and had a mental breakdown switched to polisci and then his parents yelled at him until he switched back, and he decided to join a startup instead of med school after graduation. My brother switched from premed to speech therapy because its significantly easier and you're still in the medical field.

I also knew a dude that went to a top 3 Ivy league school got a 3.8 there and only got accepted to 2 of the 20 med schools he applied to. His sister went to UCLA got similar grades and didn't get into any med school.

If you're dead set on being a doctor there are always foreign universities which will accept you with shit tier grades but then getting a residency in the US will be a challenge.


Long story short, try your best, but chances are you won't make it if you already have to pull all nighters in your first semester and keep stressing it. If you do end up doing worse, switching out of premed is not the end of the world. It's never too late to join up engineering or any other major and save yourself some long term suffering lol.