<p>With the schedule I might be forced with, is it bad to take Bio, Physics, and Orgo in the same year. Would it be too much? And that year, by the way, would be my junior year, the year I would take the MCATs. Is it bad in the fact the material is too much altogether, or that it needs to sink in before the MCATs; or good in the sense it will be fresh in my mind?</p>
<p>Way too much to take at once. Taking orgo and Physics together is really pushing it. You have to remember that you have labs for the courses so it would basically eliminate your possiblity of taking any other classes. You can take the classes during summers if you need to. Taking the MCATs the summer after your Junior year is really pushing it for med apps since they are do pretty soon after scores come out.</p>
<p>For the labs, you only have to take one semester right. Does it matter when you take the lab? Suppose I take Bio in my freshman year. Is it ok to do the lab the next year?</p>
<p>You take a lab with each lecture period. And you take two sem. of each science course. O Chem is the only one that only requires lab for one sem (at my school at least), every other science requires a lab each semester. So if you tripled up you would take 3 science lectures, and have 3 lab periods one sem, and 2 the next (maybe?). The lectures depend in length by school but range from 1 hour to 2. Labs are usually minimum 3 hours and go right on up. Some classes also have disucssion periods so thats another hour there.</p>
<p>so you are forced to take the lab while you take the class...crap</p>
<p>So say I take Chem over the summer.... will that cover both semesters, and will I have to take the lab as well. Sounds almost impossible.</p>
<p>Usually summer courses cover one semester. As far as I taking two lab courses during the summer isnt a very good idea.</p>
<p>....?</p>
<p>You think it would be too much then? The first summer session i'd do Chem1 from 8-10:45 then the lab from 11-1 or something like that.</p>
<p>Then next summer session I do the same thing from Chem 2. You think it is too overwhelming? I mean what's the difference if you do just one semester? It's not like you are doing it at the same time.</p>
<p>If it two summer sessions its fine. If it during the same one and they are back to back, then it will be very hard.</p>
<p>Haha, oh yea! Let's see...that's 10 hours a day of chemistry!</p>
<p>This is one of those crucial moment where you can question how badly you want to get into medical school. Are you really willing to put in some extra hours and get this done, or cut corners?</p>
<p>If there is a viable alternative to your schedule conflict, take it (such as summer school), otherwise just work hard.</p>
<p>lol... you are probably mis-interpreting what I have been talking about- I am trying to figure out if I can attend Wharton and cover all the Pre-med reqs. It'd be a dream if I could "cut corners"...</p>
<p>Okay. What year will you be this fall?</p>
<p>Hehe. I am a senior in high school next year. I am just making sure if it is possible to do Premed at Wharton and trying to find the best ways to do it.</p>
<p>lol that wasn't obvious :p</p>
<p>I would say you take math and general chem your freshmen year, bio and orgo your sophomore year usually the orgo lab will be second semester, and physics your junior year. If you want you could take some other bio electives your junior year too, they're not required though. Since you're business you'll really just want to get the core courses and if you're not science-oriented you wont want to even take 2 sciences in one year, so you should minimize its percentage of your schedule as much as possible.</p>
<p>yeah but is medschool liek undergrad admissions...i mena if you look at any prestigious undergrad school requirements/recommended courses they usually have BARE minimums that you know EVERYBODY took way more such as how some require or suggest a year of foreign laungage and you know most took 3-6 years of a foreign language....would you still be appealing to medschool if you only took the bare minimum courses yet performed extremely well in those courses and your mcats?</p>
<p>The premed courses do not serve as a bare minimum to what med school expect you to take. Were this the case, all applicants would be forced to be science majors by virtue of have to take more classes in the premed fields, and this is clearly not the case. You are expected to perform well in all of your non-premed classes of course, but the required courses are not really a sort of baseline set of reqs. As to the question of taking the premed courses while in Wharton, I am honestly not sure it's possible to do that and graduate in four years. Since the Wharton curriculum is so structured, and because of the need to take so many classes with labs, scheduling becomes a huge problem (for the record, I am currently a premed in the College at Penn going into my sophomore year). The order recommended by most premed or honors advisors at Penn is either bio/calc or chem/physics freshman year, then the remaining pair sophomore year, followed by orgo junior year, and the two english req's whenever, since they are simply to qualifying courses rather than sequential ones. This assumes you will take the MCAT's in the sping of your junio year (I was not aware of this until recently, but apparently the second semester of orgo, at least the way Penn structures it, I'm not sure how standardized these courses are, is NOT covered on the MCAT's but is simply required by medschools, so there is no issue of taking the test without having completely finished the second semester of orgo). Summer session is the way to go, but you'd have to take your classes at Penn, either because they'd be premed req's or Wharton classes, which means you'd need deeeeep pockets (Penn charges about $2,500 a summer-session class if you're an undergrad there, not including housing). On the bright side, being Wharton and premed would give you some nice perspective on how terribly out of perspective Wharton undergrads are when it comes to their workload, it really doesn't compare to the premed/science majors or the engineers (the College's rep for grade inflation is in the humanities, not the sciences) :-D. This is starting to get long, but one last thing about the order of premed courses, I'd recommend taking bio/calc first, because bio is generally considered to be the intro science course at Penn designed to weed out premeds (orgo is supposedly worse, but students don't take that until later), so you might want to take it first and make sure you get through it, the same goes at other schools, most premed curriculums seem to pick one of the three intro sciences and make it significantly harder than the others. Calc at Penn is also a pain, just because all the premeds, Wharton students, science majors, and engineers have to take it, so the curve can be a bit rough.</p>
<p>what the hell, i don't log on in forever and they reset my post numbers >:o</p>
<p>just a question tho, i heard that you aren't supposed to take pre med courses over the summer if u wanna be premed... is that true? or is it just one of those myths... do the transcripts show whether the classes were taken during the summer or regular year? or is this whole issue not a big deal at all?</p>