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Have you taken the MCAT yet? If you do drop one in favor of genetics, I recommend dropping anatomy, unless you were considering dropping physiology because of some scheduling conflict.
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Importance is an interesting concept. Importance with respect to what?
Importance for preparing for the rigors of medical school? Anatomy and Physiology are equal in importance in that regard, although many find gross anatomy extremely difficult.
Importance for MCAT? There is an extremely small amt of anatomy on the MCAT. Physiology is a tremendous help.
My vote, seeing as you haven't taken the MCAT yet, would be for you to take physiology. I wish I had. I would have at least gotten a 10 or 11 on Bio 🙁 Had to settle for a 9... wish I had learned O2 dissociation curves and EKG/ECG readouts... would have helped for MCAT passages.
Either way, I recommend a prep course... others will disagree. Kaplan is responsible for my 21 to 32 increase, January 06 diagnostic to April 06 MCAT.
Genetics has very little importance for the MCAT. I just took 400 level genetics, and I don't think that any of that was important for the MCAT with perhaps the exception of some of the immunology stuff we touched upon just before the final... right now, you have to weigh everything on a cost-to-benefit analysis. One course grade isn't as important as your MCAT performance, IMHO.
Importance for preparing for the rigors of medical school? Anatomy and Physiology are equal in importance in that regard, although many find gross anatomy extremely difficult.
Importance for MCAT? There is an extremely small amt of anatomy on the MCAT. Physiology is a tremendous help.
My vote, seeing as you haven't taken the MCAT yet, would be for you to take physiology. I wish I had. I would have at least gotten a 10 or 11 on Bio 🙁 Had to settle for a 9... wish I had learned O2 dissociation curves and EKG/ECG readouts... would have helped for MCAT passages.
Either way, I recommend a prep course... others will disagree. Kaplan is responsible for my 21 to 32 increase, January 06 diagnostic to April 06 MCAT.
Genetics has very little importance for the MCAT. I just took 400 level genetics, and I don't think that any of that was important for the MCAT with perhaps the exception of some of the immunology stuff we touched upon just before the final... right now, you have to weigh everything on a cost-to-benefit analysis. One course grade isn't as important as your MCAT performance, IMHO.
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I guess I will be keeping physiology then. I guess what I need help deciding is what is the better course of action: repeat genetics and do well, or take a new course (anatomy) and do well. I'm wondering what would look better to admissions reps.
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Physiology and Genetics would help you the most. I'm not sure why drmax said that genetics won't help much, I had a TON of molecular genetics on my MCAT. I wish I had a choice of a better professor when I took it, since the one I had was more interested in wildlife biology.
Anatomy is a fine course to take before you go to medical school, but it is not that important for the MCAT, and I would make physiology a priority over it. Medicine is a physiology based profession even in DO school, hence "physician" vs something like "anatomatician."
