<p>I'm a junior pre-med student and I've completed all of my pre-med pre-reqs except for bio lab 2. Unfortunately, my schedule got majorly effed up and I can't take bio 2 lab my spring semester anymore. Would taking it during the summer after junior year be too late?</p>
<p>Are you talking about the second semester of General Biology with lab (the class and lab)?</p>
<p>OP, the short answer is no. I heard, for example, most premeds at U Penn take their orgo labs in senior year, as otherwise it is too difficult to schedule it with other classes.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>Can you further clarify? Are you saying that the students take their Orgo classes earlier, but do the lab part later? If so, I didn’t even know that was possible. I know that it’s a separate class (by number), but I was just assuming that you have to take the class and lab concurrently. Does it vary by school?</p>
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Yes.</p>
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Your assumption is not correct. Many private colleges allow students to NOT take the class and lab concurrently. I do know that many state universities insist the lecture class and the lab be taken concurrently.
I heard that at some privates, students have to take a single “double-sized” orgo lab (longer lab session, or a regular orgo lab but twice a week) in one semester only. At these schools, they may still have orgo II lab but it is actually a lab that is beyond the usual orgo I/II labs. One parent who is a physician now and used to be a premed at JHU did not know that and took his school’s orgo II lab, and regretted it (as that advanced orgo II lab is likely geared toward those PhD track students or a chemistry major.) He said the non-perfect lab score cost him dearly. (His goal was to get into a top medical school though and there was an early auto-admit policy for JHU undergrads to enter JHU medical school back then; the criteria were based on stats only.)</p>
<p>Welcome to the sometimes disgusting world of a premed life! A premed who is constantly gaming the system tends to have an upperhand if his goal is to get into a medical school (any one instead of a top one.) DS was very allergic to the distasteful (if not ugly) aspect pf a premed life. The other dstasteful one is the need to gloat/inflate your achievement in your application – Is the person who you describe in your essay really you? Most of your close friends who really know you well may not think so, but as long as the adcoms can not tell the exaggeration in your list of achievement in the short period when he reads your essay or during the interview, you score some points. There are no lack of students who did this and got into a top medical school or get a lucrative i-banking job. (You must have heard of an ivy student who was trying to get into the i-banking and got caught lying and became a joke on the internet. He was just too stupid and had not mastered the art of “blow your horn.”) </p>
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Absolutely!</p>
<p>Clear enough now?</p>