<p>I know that on the app, you can tell med schools what you will be taking senior year.</p>
<p>UCLA highly recommends Spanish; I am trying to squeeze it into this year (junior year) but it doesn't look like I can do it easily. I may have to do it senior year instead.</p>
<p>I am wondering how much med schools care about "possible senior year classes". If it came down to me and a similar applicant who had already completed Spanish, would the other applicant have a significant advantage?</p>
<p>For Spanish, I can't imagine so.</p>
<p>For something like organic chemistry, yeah, it probably would, since they use your grades there to provide them significant information.</p>
<p>Yeah, for non-required classes it's probably not going to matter one way or the other. For required classes that may be unique to that school (like my school requires genetics) then those expected senior year classes are looked at to make sure you fill in any holes. Taking really basic courses like organic or physics might raise eyebrows and would need to be explained.</p>