<p>No problem, I didn’t take your comment in that way at all :)</p>
<p>I agree that these kinds of courses are a big part of being at Yale (one of my reasons for taking the music class I mentioned - it’s not music theory or history but rather a seminar about music and it’s relation to various texts and esp. psychology). I am certainly not averse to the humanities: I find literature, art history, etc. all extraordinarily fascinating. I like the idea of taking an English course, I am just not sure if I can do well. I supposedly have access to ENGL 114 up to 130 due to an AP 5, but does that really mean I am qualified for such classes? My AP Eng Lang class had A LOT of reading and writing; I liked the novels we read, but I would not consider myself strong in that area, and while I think my writing is strong, I tend to take a long time doing it (we did A LOT of timed writing in high school and I always wrote the least but got a good score because of what I did say - assigned essays take me a loooong time). On the other hand, I found the AP test extremely easy and Yale seems to suggest that I can handle the higher courses that I found interesting (126, 127, 130). Personally, I’m not sure.</p>
<p>And my main instrument is actually a wind instrument May I ask how you know this about me? haha.</p>
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<p>Hm, I see. I’ll have to ask my pre-med advisor about this since you and my friend seem to have contradictory evidence :)</p>
<p>Good call. Depending on what your advisor says, it might be best to just call the schools to confirm. My advisor gave pretty mediocre advice–she was correct that schools would take writing intensive classes for English requirements, but wrong that every school required it. </p>
<p>I bet your premed office has an MSAR lying around. You could page through it to figure out which schools require more English than you already have (say, schools which require 2 semesters of English) and then call a few of them to figure out their individual policies (every one I’ve called so far is really friendly!) I think the key in my phone calls was that I mentioned these writing intensive classes fulfill my school’s English requirements–so would they fulfill the med school’s? Answer was a resounding yes.</p>
<p>Which brings another interesting point to the mix: some schools (Boston specifically comes to mind) will adapt their other prereq requirements to your school. Boston, for example, requires a year of organic lab. But that’s a kind of rare thing for students to take–apparently, many take orgo I in the fall then take orgo II and orgo I lab concurrently in the spring. If your school works like that (orgo I/orgoII+orgoIlab), then that’s all you need for Boston. One of the other schools required 8 units of math, through calc II. I called them, explained that I had AP credit for calc I and transfer credit for calc II, but that only amounted to 6 credits. They said it was fine–as long as it’s calc II, that’s all that matters. I thought this was kind of quirky, so I brought it up with 2 of my advisors, who each assured me that many schools adapt requirements like this. Your best bet is always to just call the school in question!</p>
<p>OP,
Contact AdCom of Med. Schools of your concern. They are the only people who know what you need. They are very helpful and timely with responses. My D. did and got all answers to her very specific questions.</p>
May I ask how you know this about me? haha.</p>