<p>As far as my undergrad pre-med courses are concerned, which ones are worth keeping? And which ones am I better off selling back to get some more money?</p>
<p>I say keep Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Physiology or Anatomy, and maybe Bioethics if you took it.
I like keeping textbooks so I’ll keep all of mine so I can’t help you here :D</p>
<p>I didn’t use any of my undergrad textbooks for med school. There are books that are much better focused on what medical schools want you to know out there.</p>
<p>I lucked out and one of the recommended (but not required) texts for the neuro unit this year was the same textbook that I used in neurobio in undergrad. So I looked at it a couple of times when a professor recommended it. But that was it.</p>
<p>Interesting - Right now I still have my introductory books for psych, chem and bio… I’m going to hold on to the biology book because I personally think it’s a really good textbook that explains things well with lots of diagrams.</p>
<p>But as far as studying for the MCAT - would the intro chem book be useful? Or should I just sell it back at the beginning of the semester/sell it so some innocent freshman?</p>
<p>All of the pre-med science classes cover way more depth and breadth than is required on the MCAT. Studying from any textbooks from those courses is going to be an inefficient use of your time. It makes more sense to sell your textbooks now and save the money to buy books targeted for MCAT review later.</p>
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<p>Oops…We have just mailed the textbooks (orgo, gen. chem., and physics) to my S, who is preparing for MCAT now. (It is really not likely that he will have enough time to go over the textbook anyway, but we sent him these just in case.) Maybe we should ask him to spend time on his KAPLAN books instead. Thanks.</p>
<p>For the bio, there are so many classes that he has taken (as he is a bio major). We really do not know where he should start.</p>
<p>The Kaplan review sheets and materials for each class should be more than enough.</p>
<p>^ definitely - don’t keep any of your books. I made that mistake (before I realized the textbooks usually aren’t necessary :)) and never touched them after the undergrad class.</p>
<p>At my son’s medical school most people didn’t buy very many textbooks for the first year except for Netter’s (Anatomy) ) but instead relied on the very detailed syllabus for each course. I know that every time he received a new one he went to Kinko’s to laminate and bind them.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, he said that hey had calculated that they had somewhere around 14,000 pages of syllabus for their MS1 year.</p>
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<p>We did the same thing. Except for our anatomy course, I think that only one of our other main courses had a required textbook. There was often a book that was recommended by the professors (which I generally didn’t buy) or a book that upperclassmen said was a good one to look at (which I usually did buy). And yes, I printed an amazing number of pages this year. Some of my classmates could read them on the computer, but most of us weren’t willing to read a 20-page syllabus on our computer screens.</p>