<p>Does anyone know how many medical schools and which ones require English Literature and composition as opposited to just an english composition? If you go to Cornell then you will know what I'm talking about since freshman writing seminars do not count as English Literature.</p>
<p>norcalguy: you go to Cornell so maybe you can help me with this. I'm taking a freshman writing seminar from the theater department that doesn't count as english literature, so what should I do from here? Should I take 2 semesters of english literature after I complete this course of english composition? How significant is the % of med schools that require literature? How can I find out which ones do this? Thanks.</p>
<p>Take a second english class, that's just over Literature. You'll probably enjoy the break from your typical science classes. It's possible there might even be a course over Health and illness in Literature (There was one at my school which I took along with a composition class and later 20th Century Fiction which was the easiest class I ever took).</p>
<p>Your writing seminars should cover any writing requirements med schools may have. If you don't have any lit classes, then just take some English literature courses. My writing seminar was an English course but I took a 300-level English course last semester anyway. They're a lot of fun although quite a bit of work (I had to read 9 novels + write 8 papers). So now I have two courses from the English department on my transcript so hopefully that'll be enough to cover any composition/literature requirements.</p>