<p>I recently transferred to a new school, and consequently some courses were full. I'm taking organic chemistry this semester, but oddly enough the orgo II lab course is full. The next time I can take this class is spring of senior year.</p>
<p>I know that for most medical schools, they require a year of orgo with lab. It wouldn't hurt me if i take that lab course during my last semester when I have presumably already completed my application process for med school would it?</p>
<p>It's fine. Prereq's must be completed prior to matriculation, not application. If it's just a lab course, med schools won't care. Just don't leave too many prereq's until the last semester. Then med schools won't have any grades to evaluate you upon.</p>
<p>Yeah one chem lab is no big deal - I didn't take the second OChem lab until my last quarter at UCLA. It won't be a disadvantage for the MCAT or applications.</p>
<p>And I never took second semester orgo lab at all.</p>
<p>Orgo lab is the one lab course you don't need a full year in (as technically the requirement is 8 credits of orgo which equated to 2 semesters of orgo and 1 semester of orgo lab).</p>
<p>^ Good point - I meant to say the second chem lab (not second OChem) - UCLA doesn't even offer two labs, and only offers 2/3 of a year of both general and organic chemistry, so I got off easy lol.</p>