3 credit hours while doing Sn2ed MCAT Prep

[dtinker1]

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I just turned 20 January 15. I am a senior by hours (due largely to AP credit hours and concurrent work in high school). Because the school I desire to go to (University of Oklahoma) places 70% of its emphasis on the MCAT, I decided to use my luxury of being ahead to take the semester more or less off (3 credit hours) to prepare for MCAT.

I met with my pre-med advisor today and she seemed distressed at my decision saying she had never seen/heard of someone doing. I noticed on Sn2ed's schedule that he suggests a full 3 months dedicated to the MCAT and that taking school may be too much.

What do you all think?
Thanks

 

[Mavii]

I just turned 20 January 15. I am a senior by hours (due largely to AP credit hours and concurrent work in high school). Because the school I desire to go to (University of Oklahoma) places 70% of its emphasis on the MCAT, I decided to use my luxury of being ahead to take the semester more or less off (3 credit hours) to prepare for MCAT.

I met with my pre-med advisor today and she seemed distressed at my decision saying she had never seen/heard of someone doing. I noticed on Sn2ed's schedule that he suggests a full 3 months dedicated to the MCAT and that taking school may be too much.

What do you all think?
Thanks

3 credits sounds fine to me. If anything it might give you a break from getting burned out by mcat studying. What class is it?

 

[dtinker1]

3 credits sounds fine to me. If anything it might give you a break from getting burned out by mcat studying. What class is it?

its a third semester of english. i guess my concern is with how medical schools will look at it?

 

[Black Mamba24]

I just turned 20 January 15. I am a senior by hours (due largely to AP credit hours and concurrent work in high school). Because the school I desire to go to (University of Oklahoma) places 70% of its emphasis on the MCAT, I decided to use my luxury of being ahead to take the semester more or less off (3 credit hours) to prepare for MCAT.

I met with my pre-med advisor today and she seemed distressed at my decision saying she had never seen/heard of someone doing. I noticed on Sn2ed's schedule that he suggests a full 3 months dedicated to the MCAT and that taking school may be too much.

What do you all think?
Thanks

Lol she is a good advisor in my opinion, but some of the things she says are slightly off-base . With that said, I went to school full-time (12 hours) while studying for the MCAT. Honestly, I wish I had focused more on the MCAT. It wasn't the difficulty of the classes that I was taking so much as the fact that I'm hard-wired to focus on classes. However, going to school full-time and studying for the MCAT concurrently is completely doable.

Also, I personally believe that an MCAT study schedule like that is overkill. Will you be graduating this semester? If so, then I don't think going below full time will be a big deal. In that case, you can simply say that you didn't need any other classes to graduate and that you'd rather not waste money taking uninteresting/meaningless courses. If you're not graduating this semester, then it will probably look odd to adcoms. Plenty of people study for/take the MCAT during the semester, so I don't believe that using MCAT studying as an excuse for going part-time will work.

 

[MedPR]

I just turned 20 January 15. I am a senior by hours (due largely to AP credit hours and concurrent work in high school). Because the school I desire to go to (University of Oklahoma) places 70% of its emphasis on the MCAT, I decided to use my luxury of being ahead to take the semester more or less off (3 credit hours) to prepare for MCAT.

I met with my pre-med advisor today and she seemed distressed at my decision saying she had never seen/heard of someone doing. I noticed on Sn2ed's schedule that he suggests a full 3 months dedicated to the MCAT and that taking school may be too much.

What do you all think?
Thanks

I worked full-time, took 7 credits, did SN2ed, and scored in the 90th percentile. Chill out.

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[bigdogrob4284]

You will be fine. Just focus on getting a great score.