<p>bump…10char</p>
<p>Summer courses are almost never a good idea. Medical school admissions committees don’t like them; they can sometimes be more difficult due to the accelerated timeframe; you learn the material less well for the same reason.</p>
<p>The most important problem is that summers need – NEED – to be spent on extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Students tend to like summers because it’s easy. You just sign up for summer school. There’s nobody to apply to or interview with. You know how to do school; you do school all year long! That’s precisely why it’s a bad idea.</p>
<p>Thanks BDM, but what if the summer course was part of a study abroad in a country that I’m interested in visiting? The orgo course will be taught by the school’s own prof (from the US university). It’s as if the class has been picked up and dropped off in the study abroad country. Hopefully I’m making an ounce of sense in this post…</p>
<p>That makes a little more sense but it exacerbates the concerns about their looking less rigorous. Remember, a medical school’s not going to recognize the name of a professor. They’re just going to realize you took organic chemistry in Italy (or wherever). And it doesn’t solve the timeframe problems.</p>
<p>I’d still avoid it.</p>
<p>OK BDM, I’ll see if I can plan out a nicer schedule or something because my second year is going to be packed with sciences then (calc, physics, orgo, chem lab, maybe others I’m forgetting). </p>
<p>Is a B.S. Public Health a ‘unique’ major? I just found out the school I plan on attending has this major and it combines sciences with the ‘high-level’ focus and also has courses like ‘Global Health’, etc. integrated into the degree. It seems like a great fit for me but I was wondering if it would also stand out among other premeds? (win-win?)</p>
<p>No, I think it would be one of the Specialized Health Sciences which you’d want to avoid.</p>
<p>Viggy–you might check if your school has a minor or a certificate in public health or global health or whatever. If it does, you’d probably be able to take those cool-sounding classes while still majoring in something that would give you a more “liberal arts” background.</p>
<p>Oh no, are you serious BDM?!
Here is the link to the program: [Apply</a> - Portal to Public Health at the University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“Public Health”>Public Health)
Description of the program: <a href=“Public Health”>http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/publichealth/description.aspx</a></p>
<p>What exactly are the Specialized Health Sciences and how do I know if this major falls under those?</p>
<p>Viggy, Look at this <a href=“Public Health”>Public Health; . I see no mention of preparation for an M.D. .</p>
<p>Ah, good point curm. I didn’t see that. I guess this degree is much more vocational than I thought. Arg, back to the drawing board.</p>
<p>BDM, a question for you.
Instead of pushing back Physics to your senior year, couldn’t you push back your math courses until senior year? Or is there Calc on the MCAT?</p>
<p>Hi,
I am going to attend Rutgers University next fall as a freshman as a Biology Major in the pre-med track. I have AP Bio credit. But I don’t know if it is a good idea to skip General Biology or not since most medical schools do not accept AP credit. Would it be best to take both General Biology and General Chemistry freshman year so I will have sophomore year to worry about Organic Chemistry? I might also have a writing and a math or writing and a language freshman year.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>In general it tends to help to have math done before physics.</p>
<p>I know I am jumping in a little late, but as a non science major I just couldn’t face two science courses in one year. So to get everything done and still be able to apply on time, I did organic chemistry at my college during the summer. Since it was my same university it was not some weird transfered grade. It ws brutally hard as we had the same material of 30 weeks in about 12. I came cloes to blowing up the lab (what were they thinking letting us use such dangerous stuff anyway), but got it done and out of the way.</p>
<p>Hi all… </p>
<p>I’m an entering freshman (Fall 2011) and have (or soon will) credit for Gen Chem 1, Gen Bio 1 and 2, Calc 1 and 2, Gen Physics 1, and most other gen eds through AP, IB, and Dual Enrollment. Would it be wise to skip over most of these, if i don’t mind taking more ‘advanced’ levels classes to satisfy the med school requirements? I plan on majoring in either Chemical or Nuclear Engineering and was thinking of taking the following my first semester: Gen Chem II, Honors Calc III, Gen Physics II, as well as another class related to the major I’ll decide to choose. I’ll be sitting through Calc III and Chem II this summer at a local university to familiarize myself with each.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am a UCSD student going pre med. Most medical schools say they want a year of biology and lab. At UCSD bology lab classes are separate courses, and so I was wondering whether a year of biology and lab would mean 3 quarters of biology and then 1 quarter of lab, or 2 quarters of biology and 1 quarter of lab. Does the lab course count toward the year of bio?</p>
<p>Thanks! :D</p>
<p>Here’s where your school discusses it. <a href=“http://career.ucsd.edu/_files/Medicine.pdf[/url]”>http://career.ucsd.edu/_files/Medicine.pdf</a></p>
<p>Here’s the text.
</p>
<p>Alright thank you. I’m not sure if I’m reading it wrong but I’m still not clear if a biology lab counts toward the minimum of 1 year of biology. I guess I should speak to an advisor about it.</p>
<p>It does not. You need one full year of Bio and one lab quarter, according to UCSD.
Seems pretty clear to me. BILD1+ 2+ 3 + one lab.</p>