More APs vs. Medical Electives

Pre-Med & Medical School Multiple Degree Programs
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<p>My school offers a few medical related electives (general anatomy, medical physiology, organic chem), but none of them are honors/ap. As for science AP's I have already taken AP Bio, AP Chem, and AP Physics C. A lot of my classmates are loading up on AP's for senior year, but I don't want to take AP electives like AP Macro/ Micro or AP Enviro, etc. I like science and medicine, and I'm applying for BS/MD programs. </p>

<p>I am signed up for all 3 electives, but from an admissions perspective, which do you think looks better? AP electives I don't really find interesting, just for the sake of taking AP classes (but it will boost my weighted GPA/ maybe seem like I am taking a more 'rigorous' schedule), or medical-ish electives that don't help my GPA but that I will actually find interesting? Keep in mind that I'm a senior... so I guess my GPA for senior year doesn't actually count for the GPA colleges see, but they will consider my academic 'rigor.' I have also been accepted into Columbia Science Honors Program (SHP), and I plan to take neurobiology and experimental genetics (yay more science classes!! :D) this year, if that counts for anything.</p>

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<p>Hi ferredoxin,
Are you taking any APs at all? For example, maybe AP Literature or a language other than english AP like AP Spanish (does your school offer it?)? It’s great that you took advantage of many of the science APs already and to me it looks like you are VERY interested in medicine by taking all 3 electives!! As long as your schedule is close to full for senior year (ie 6 or 7 classes in your schedule if there are 9 periods) and science-related courses aren’t the only classes on your schedule, then you should be fine. I only mention this because when I was in 10th grade, the valedictorian for the senior class got rejected at Stony Brook’s BS/MD program (his dream program) & it was rumored that this happened because he dropped spanish, didn’t take an AP English or history, dropped math (you can do that in NY if you take 3 yrs of math) & overloaded on the AP sciences & only science-related ECs, which does NOT make him appear to be a well-rounded student. So beware of that & you should be fine =)</p>