<p>Many med schools say they require 2 semesters of English. </p>
<li>Can this be any English class (Literature, composition, etc?)</li>
<li>If my school is on the quarter system, would that mean I need 3 quarters of English to meet the requirement?</li>
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<p>Thanks in advance…</p>
<p>2.) Yes .</p>
<p>hi kutibah, I think I saw you in the UCLA forum.</p>
<p>If you're going to take Eng Comp 3, that will count. So you'd only need two more after that (which satisfies the college writing requirement too)--one WII (which can be a GE or not) and another WII that has to be a GE. You'll probably be hearing about how you can also take a <em>seminar</em> class to take care of the college writing requirement, but this will not count toward the year of English medical schools want.</p>
<p>I plan to take a normal WII, a GE WII and another GE WII (I passed out of Eng Comp3).</p>
<p>Here's the UCLA site for more information:</p>
<p>UCLA</a> Career Center</p>
<p>Do all those count for the English med school want? Because I'm already taking Philosophy 22W – Intro to Ethical Theory for my minor and so if that counts as an English (from that website you linked too) then that would be great!</p>
<p>Ookla:</p>
<p>A Wii? Can I play too? lol</p>
<p>well my short answer is 'yes,' it should count (definitely for UCLA med school), but the site does say to check with individual schools just in case.</p>
<p>and yes, i have three WIIs, so I can spare one for you!</p>
<p>Such determinations are dominated by the department offering the course. I would not stray away from English, Literature, Writing, Composition.</p>
<p>If you took 3 quarters of writing (and yes, they really were writing classes), but the titles of the courses don't imply that they were english/comp/writing/lit courses... will med schools automatically throw away your app? Or will they give you a chance to explain yoursefl? I talked to the pre-med advisor at my school about this and she said that if this becomes an issue with med schools, my university can send them a letter explaining that these are indeed writing courses and should satisfy the 1-year writing requirement. However, I'm just a little scared that schools wouldn't even give me a chance to explain and automatically reject me before I can... do you think this will be an issue?</p>
<p>I've hear that Med Schools prefer Comp. Lit. to just straight English. Does anyone know if there is any merit to that?</p>
<p>Wouldn't make any sense unless there's something wrong with the English courses in question.</p>
<p>I also have a question</p>
<p>I am taking Seminar in Composition ( a required gened) and Intro to Critical Reading (counts as a W course for the gen ed requirement). Will this fulfill the premed requirements, and also, do they seem substantive?</p>
<p>What departments are offering them?</p>
<p>Well, Seminar in Comp is offered in the English Composition Dept. and Intro to Critical Reading is offered in the English Literature Dept.</p>
<p>Also, not that I want to apply to HMS, but the requirements say a year in Expository Writing, am I limiting my options to Med School by not taking any?</p>
<p>Another, will Intro to CR help on MCAT verbal? Thats the primary reason I want to take it. </p>
<p>Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>1.) They should both be okay.
2.) Not sure. You'd have to call them and ask what that means. I wonder if that got me in trouble there... hm. I don't think anybody else has so specific a requirement.
3.) Depends on the course. Sounds like the ostensible topic is relevant, but who knows.</p>
<p>"Expository writing" seems like too specific a requirement to judge if a class qualifies by looking at the course title. Akahmed, if you do call, let us know what they say!</p>