Add/Drop advice

[Miykael]

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Heya folks, I'm in my last semester of college, and I'm also studying for the mcat in the spring. I was wondering if you think adcoms would think I'm a bum if I switched my endocrinology class for two 1 credit sport/fitness electives. That would put me at 12 credits, though my other 10 are challenging ones, and I took 18 last semester.

What do you guys think? I'm legitimately interested in these two 1 credit classes, but I'm already swamped with MCAT studying so I dont want to add them on top of my other classes. Though I'm worried about appearing as a slacker if I switch them for my endo class.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Bernoull]

Heya folks, I'm in my last semester of college, and I'm also studying for the mcat in the spring. I was wondering if you think adcoms would think I'm a bum if I switched my endocrinology class for two 1 credit sport/fitness electives. That would put me at 12 credits, though my other 10 are challenging ones, and I took 18 last semester.

What do you guys think? I'm legitimately interested in these two 1 credit classes, but I'm already swamped with MCAT studying so I dont want to add them on top of my other classes. Though I'm worried about appearing as a slacker if I switch them for my endo class.

What are your thoughts?

At worst, they couldn't care less and at best it may be a positive bcos u're "rounding out ur courses" breadth VS depth...

This assumes u've taken enough upper bio courses to meet the necessary school requirement..

 

[RevMD]

Considering the other 10hrs is probably hard upper-level courses, I doubt adcoms will care. These two 1hr courses basically count as a 100lvl gen ed course, so nothing wrong with having one of these every sem.

 

[lstone13]

I think you'll be fine. Priority this semester for you will be the MCAT. So long as switching that class does not change your graduation date, then I don't feel like the switch will be significant, and it will not impact your application.

 

[Catalystik]

If you need to improve your BCPM, then keep the endocrinology. Otherwise, as long as you're still full-time in the eyes of your school, a lighter course load while studying for the MCAT is fairly traditional, and I'm sure your ECs are further adding to your current load (at least they'd better be ifyou're applying in summer 2010).