<p>i wanted to take physics over the summer so i could get all my pre-med requirements done with by the end of sophomore year (when i take bio and orgo). </p>
<p>will that be frowned down upon? i already know orgo over the summer isnt the greatest idea.</p>
<p>e h ?</p>
<p>b u m p.</p>
<p>I'm also planning to take physics, over the summer, in order to complete my pre-med requirements. However, I'm unsure as to whether or not this would be a safe idea academically. Any suggestions out there?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>wut undergrad do u both go to</p>
<p>I hope I don't sound brass by this, but ... what does it matter what school I go to? It's an international university relative to the United States so..... but I just wanted to know whether taking a pre-med course, especially one that involves a lab, would be a wise decision given that it is a course that med schools will indubitably take into account. Is it lunatic to take a pre-med requirement in the summer? Do top med schools allow courses taken during the summer months to be included in GPA calculation? thx.</p>
<p>i was just curious, im applying to schools now.</p>
<p>Yea, so I might be doing the same thing if I stay on campus to continue researching. I'm a sophomore and am taking bio 210 and orgo 210 right now all year and it seems easiest to get the mcat out of the way in august. From what I've heard, med schools like students to take their lab sciences during the year to show you can handle it and get grades within a regular load. They realize it's easier to take it during the summer where you can devote all your attention to just that one class. That being said, most people I've talked to said it's not that big of a deal(my school's kind of infamous for having students take orgo over the summer since its ridiculolous here, or going to harvard to take orgo or bio so they dont have to deal with it here) and with a class like physics it really doesn't matter. It's more bio, chem, and orgo they want during the year.</p>
<p>For doogie, I go to northwestern.</p>
<p>I go to hopkins. </p>
<p>I thought it was an anything but orgo over the summer kind of deal. Am I wrong?</p>
<p>I'd say orgo and bio, I mean bio's really the main science you'll use in med school so it makes sense theyd want you to have that for a year rather than cram for a summer.</p>
<p>Oh, and as long as you take the course over the summer at your home institution it will count on your gpa to whomever asked that. Usually if its at another school it will just be a T on your home institution's transcript and you'll have to send a second transcript from the school you took it at over the summer.</p>
<p>Physics over the summer probably won't really hurt you, but make sure you check the admissions for some of the schools since some will only take credits from 4 year colleges/universities.</p>