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[MesialBuccal]

I have a very similar question... I am currently an undergrad that had a change of heart regarding her career path due to personal life events. I decided to take all my gen science prereqs at once.... I took gen bio 2, gen chem 1, gen physics 1 along with all of the labs for each of those courses all in one semester... (This is what I was told would usually be a gpa death sentence for most people) but I ended up with Bs in all of those classes....

 

[FeralisExtremum]

I took gen bio 2, gen chem 1, gen physics 1 along with all of the labs for each of those courses all in one semester...(This is what I was told would usually be a gpa death sentence for most people)

That course load is pretty standard for premed/predents during their freshman year.

 

[MesialBuccal]

I am a junior. My health professions advisor gave me "that look" when I told her the courses that I had planned on taking. Apparently taking gen bio 2, plus gen chem, plus gen physics, plus all three labs was not the norm.

 

[arkenstone]

I will be a non-trad applicant. I graduated with my b.s. in radiation therapy which did not require organic chem or chem at the pre-med level. When I took the professional health chem I think I got a B and then a C. I just took Gen Chem 1 and got a A in lecture and lab and a B in Gen Chem 2. The rest of the sciences...physics and bio are both B's. I am aiming to get an A in organic chem but how does it look to adcoms to pretty much have just B's in the science classes? It lowers the sgpa to a little above a 3.0 but there aren't any C's in the actual pre-reqs...

The bell curve of sGPA's for admitted students seems to peak around 3.5... closer to 3.7 for the fancy schools, down to 3.2 for the not so fancy schools.

I have a very similar question... I am currently an undergrad that had a change of heart regarding her career path due to personal life events. I decided to take all my gen science prereqs at once.... I took gen bio 2, gen chem 1, gen physics 1 along with all of the labs for each of those courses all in one semester... (This is what I was told would usually be a gpa death sentence for most people) but I ended up with Bs in all of those classes....

I see in the ADEA guide some schools specifically mention that they take into account the heaviness of your course load. It doesn't change your grades, of course, but they like to see it.

For what it's worth... I took Organic 2, Biology 2, Biochem, Physics 1, and was a teaching intern for Organic Lab 1.... all last semester... while volunteering as an ESL tutor and volunteering at dental clinics on the weekend. Straight A's. Yes I'm bragging. No, I don't see much of my friends at this point in my life.

I'm going to go to Chipotle now to drown my loneliness with high levels of cheese and sodium.

 

[DentalLonghorn2014]

The bell curve of sGPA's for admitted students seems to peak around 3.5... closer to 3.7 for the fancy schools, down to 3.2 for the not so fancy schools.




I see in the ADEA guide some schools specifically mention that they take into account the heaviness of your course load. It doesn't change your grades, of course, but they like to see it.

For what it's worth... I took Organic 2, Biology 2, Biochem, Physics 1, and was a teaching intern for Organic Lab 1.... all last semester... while volunteering as an ESL tutor and volunteering at dental clinics on the weekend. Straight A's. Yes I'm bragging. No, I don't see much of my friends at this point in my life.

I'm going to go to Chipotle now to drown my loneliness with high levels of cheese and sodium.

dont forget the guac dude