Do well in your major & pre-med courses. It's OK to take upper division classes P/NP unless they are part of your major or if it's going to be a science class. Don't be a science major unless you absolutely love it. It'll keep you away from anal retentive science major pre-meds who think they are "smarter" than everyone else because of "...blah, blah, blah I took this series of science classes". It'll save you from getting headaches & having to hear the inane whining a good lot of pre-meds do about x class.</p>
<p>You have to realize it only requires a little bit of intelligence being a pre-med and no special talent. Being somewhat resourceful helps too. The only talent you'll need being a pre-med is the ability able to sit on your ass doing quality studying, 4-6 hours at a time, 5-7 days out of the week, without distractions, so that you'll be at the high end of the grading curve. Manage your time well in order to balance school work, volunteering & any other extra-curricular activities and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Volunteer in something that you like or that piques your interest to serve the community instead of trying to pad your CV because it'll be apparent in your personal statement when you are applying & adcoms will see the transparency. Med-school adcoms want their applicants to have shadowed a clinician so they get an idea of what a career in medicine entails. Adcoms aren't looking for the # of hours a volunteer puts in but rather the content of what the volunteer gets from the experience.</p>
<p>Also, don't do what Icarus is doing right now if he/she is just submitting the primarily application. It'll take 30 days for him/her to get verified, another 5-7 days to maybe get a secondary, 1-2 days for the secondary to get filled out, then he/she might get an interview who knows when & where. Some med-school applicants already interviewed in late July. I warned a non-traditional applicant friend about applying late last year. He has >3.8 gpa, 31S on the MCAT, good ECs & he didn't get interviewed anywhere. He reapplied this past mid-July and recently received a handful of secondaries.</p>
<p>Man... I really need this class right now. (HAH! Doesn't everyone need ____ class? Yay registration! :() Argh, I hope she replies soon so I can take care of it this weekend. Frustrating.</p>
<p>Thing is, I'm not officially in a BizEcon major. I'm still in the pre- status. I'm taking Econ 11 over the summer, and I still have to take Econ 101 and 41 tobe in BizEcon. Well, both of those classes are full for Fall '07, and I'm not interested in taking any econ classes that only require Econ 11 because those really aren't the area of my concentration (I'm planning on concentrating in Econometrics and Mathematical Finance area, and the only courses available for Fall '06 are other courses like Labor Economics or History of Econ, etc.).</p>
<p>So I just thought instead of wasting my unit on classes I don't need (unit cap), I might as well fulfill the required HC class while I have the time. I thought of taking two management classes, but everyone's telling me it's an overkill.</p>
<p>things changed pretty badly when i realized i probably won't ever be chem/matsci</p>
<p>my days suck. i have class from 11 to 930 on tuesdays and thursdays. i have this feeling that i will never go to class on wednesdays or fridays (just a math lecture, why bother?)</p>
<p>ge cluster: los angeles
math 3a - have taken ap calc bc test and gotten a score of 3, so would it be a breeze?
eng comp 3- have takne ap eng comp and ap eng lit and gotten scores of 3. so would it be review too?</p>
<p>i'm thinking about taking an additional class such as LS2. what do you think? i'm planning to major in phy sci and minor in english (and possibly minor in spanish if time allows). should i take 4 classes my first quarter?</p>
<p>i've already signed up for 3 courses during orientation 2nd wk of july. lemme kno the difficulty of my schedule if i add LS2 b4 all of the good teachers/lectures of LS2 are taken.</p>
<p>Would it be a breeze for 3A? Not necessarily. Depends on your prof... how much you remember... it's not like AP. </p>
<p>You can't compare Eng Comp 3 and AP courses. It doesn't work that way. </p>
<p>Go ahead and add the LS 2 right now. Drop the course by the 4th week of fall quarter if you can't handle it. Don't purchase the materials for LS2 until you're certain you can do it. For the record, the LS courses are known as weeders.</p>