<p>So I'm forging my spring '09 schedule trying to take into consideration the one year of english that some med schools reportedly require. </p>
<p>The thing is, I tested out of both halves of R&C. In light of this, would it be better to simply take the R1 series anyway, or take the year of english in another unrelated set of english courses? Do med schools have a preference? Right now I've phased 1'd Rhetoric 1A, but this is in no way set in stone.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer, but that's not my question. My question is, since I already tested out of the R series, is it BETTER to take an alternative route, or just go R1 series anyway?</p>
<p>actually i understood what you were trying to day the first time.there are many who place out of both halves but honestly they have stated many times that there is no one preference as far as med schools are concerned. they recommend that if you take a themed class that you save the syllabus in case med schools ask about the class you took. take what intersts u in the end</p>
<p>Ok, it is once again time for my public service announcement</p>
<p>MCB is the hardest bio major not including Chemical Biology. Doing MCB does not help at getting into medical school than any other major. Medical schools don't give a flying **** what your major is.</p>
<p>If you genuinely like MCB, major in it.
If you think you need to be MCB to be premed, you are horribly wrong. MCB has a good chance of crushing your GPA. Not good for medical school
If you are doing MCB because you 'just want to be a biology major', reconsider your actions. There are plenty of biology majors and if you just like biology in general, there is not real reason for you to specifically be MCB</p>
<p>Average departmental GPAs from CampusBuddy</p>
<p>IB is 3.34
BioE is 3.51
EPS is 3.50
ESPM is 3.45
ES is 3.39
PMB is 3.28
Public Health is 3.62</p>
<p>I have read your public service announcement many, many times. While I appreciate the efforts to dispel common MCB myths, I don’t appreciate you completely not answering my question, and instead assuming that I’m another MCB bandwagon who doesn’t know what he’s doing.</p>
<p>I love MCB; I wanted to pursue the immunology track far before I knew there even was a bandwagon, and I’d do it even if the circumstances were different. </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who answered. I think I’ll take the R1 series.</p>
<p>"Most California medical schools do not have an English requirement, and those that do emphasize that the requirement is due to the belief that physicians should be well rounded and educated in the humanities as well as science."
So standard humanities breadth courses should do the trick. I would strongly advise you against going on a R&C track because they are a lot more work than Arts & Literature breadth courses (which I believe should do the trick)</p>