<p>Do you think medical schools like it better if one double majors or major and minor instead of majoring in just one field? </p>
<p>also, GPA > course difficulty or GPA < course difficulty?</p>
<p>GPA is more important, but dont take that to me go for one and not the other...ideally you want to be top notch in both...but my cousin keeps telling me NUMBERS NUMBERS NUMBERS</p>
<p>what if i only take like three classes a quarter. Will the adcoms look at that and think im not challenging myself?</p>
<p>maybe, idk not an adcom...why would u do that anyway</p>
<p>...so i can keep a high gpa....</p>
<p>if you would have to do that to keep a high gpa i wouldnt want you as my doctor....rather have someone with 0.1 lower gpa taking full courseload</p>
<p>valid point</p>
<p>how about the double major thing i posed ealier?</p>
<p>well on the major and course difficulty aspect i had a session with 5 admissions counselors at some of the top med schools (harvard, cornell, tufts, BU, and UMASS) and they all said that they do not really care what school you came from or whether your major was science related or not. What they did say was that GPA and MCAT were the most important but they did take into account the difficulty of courses that you were taking. So double majoring in two subjects that are relatively easy give you no advantage over majoring in one subject and taking electives. What you should do is major/minor in stuff your interested in to do well, and if you want to add difficult classes to your schedule that will never hurt so long as you can maintain your GPA</p>
<p>the point isn't whether you want me as your doctor or not, the point is me getting into medical school rather than the applicant that took the full load and who never makes it to medical school. My question was, do adcoms look down on this, not whether you feel I would be qualified as a doctor if i take three classes instead of four or five during my college career.</p>
<p>GPA and MCAT score can actually very well predict how well you will do as a student in a medical school (there were studies done on this) -- and medical schools know that -- no wonder about MCAT here because med schools also have standardized exams you'll need to take, so if you do well here, you'll do well there</p>
<p>so yes, numbers matter -- numbers are exact figures while course difficulty can be estimated, overestimated and underestimated</p>
<p>do not focus very much of what courses it is best to take -- focus on what you'll do outside them</p>
<p>well im saying more than just me but anyone including adcoms will look down upon underloading to maintain a high gpa. why would they want someone who gets a 3.8 gpa taking 3 classes a semester while there are those who get 3.8 gpa taking 5 classes a semester and volunteering/working.</p>
<p>even if underloading improves your chances of getting the gpa necessary to get into med school, do you really think that you will be cut out to handle med school. Med-schools use GPA and MCAT to measure ones preparedness to enter and succeed in med school and in the curriculum. if you have to underload to meet those requirements then u clearly arent cut out for med-school and they will notice that.</p>
<p>is it even possible to do 3 classes/qtr or sem???? I don't think you would even graduate in 4 years. Even maybe you wanna do that just for a short period of time just to temporarily not overload yourself then cool, that's fine, but you don't wanna be doing it your entire 4 years...unless those 3 classes are bio, chem, physics you know...or alternative difficult courses but combined in small amounts to have more time to study harder in them</p>
<p>so basically I'm saying is that I think if you're taking 3 difficult courses + at the same time volunteering, researching and what not, and you can do all this in time for the MCAT and graduation in 4 years, then nothings wrong with that...at least that is what I think</p>
<p>but don't constantly take 3 easy classes/qtr just for the sake of the GPA</p>
<p>sry i didn't mean to say i was planning on taking three classes all four years, i meant just the first two-3 quarters so that i can get used to college life and then boost my load. Anyways that cleared my question thanks.</p>
<p>oh ok lol..yea whats wrong with that?</p>