Classes and Interviews

[PreMedRookie]

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Are any of you guys worried about the amount of class you will miss due to interviews?

I may have to drop my lab class due to their strict attendance policy. If you miss one lab, you get a zero and once you miss two, you fail the class. They also do not allow any make up labs and do not let you attend lab a different day that week.

I don't understand why some schools interview only on Wednesdays...if you have to fly there, you are pretty much missing two to three days of classes.

Your thoughts?

 

[Mornhavon]

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[DR MOM]

I'm nervous about missing classes and work. I'm already slated to miss five work days and it's still early. I'm thinking of dropping down to 30 hours/week for the fall. The cut in pay will be a bummer, but at least I won't be scrambling for leave. For classes I plan on talking to the professors the first day and asking how flexible they will be. I don't mind coming in early to take exams or making up labs, but it is quite the juggling act!

 

[terrifiedcarrot]

I'd drop it after double checking with the lab coordinator that exemptions for interviews are not possible.

 

[PreMedRookie]

A school not making accommodations for their students applying to graduate school seems pretty ******ed.

That's what I thought too. I emailed the lab coordinator and they said they only excuse people for illness and university sporting events and if you are attending a conference related to your major. I was shocked that applying to med school was less important. The problem is that this is a class that sophomores usually take. I am hoping my upper division bio courses will be more flexible. Just another reason to hate organic chemistry lab!!

 

[deleted550985]

university sporting events

Seriously? Your university needs to get its priorities in check.

 

[deleted526486]

Seriously? Your university needs to get its priorities in check.

Schools (and thus professors) are actually required to excuse students for university sporting events, so it's not really about priorities.

Regardless, I think it's weird that a lab coordinator won't let you miss a lab for interviews. If I were you I would talk to your dean and/or pre-health adviser. Someone has to be able to do something about it.

 

[deleted550985]

Schools (and thus professors) are actually required to excuse students for university sporting events, so it's not really about priorities.

Maybe I misunderstand, but that's what I meant (that universities require sports to be excused but not professional school interviews).

 

[deleted526486]

Maybe I misunderstand, but that's what I meant (that universities require sports to be excused but not professional school interviews).

Yeah, but it's not the universities that decide that. It's an NCAA rule. So just because a school excuses students for sports and not school interviews, it doesn't mean that they actually value sports more. 🙂

 

[deleted550985]

Yeah, but it's not the universities that decide that. It's an NCAA rule. So just because a school excuses students for sports and not school interviews, it doesn't mean that they actually value sports more. 🙂

Ahh, well in that case I stand corrected. TIL.

 

[PreMedRookie]

GET THIS!!!

I asked the lab coordinator what she thought I should do since I need the course to graduate and I know I will have to miss at least one lab thanks to IU interviewing on Wednesdays..

she said I need to talk to each school and tell them I need to reschedule!!

I am so ****ty...I have to drop the course now and try to fit a different lab in. Not Happy.

 

[riddler]

GET THIS!!!

I asked the lab coordinator what she thought I should do since I need the course to graduate and I know I will have to miss at least one lab thanks to IU interviewing on Wednesdays..

she said I need to talk to each school and tell them I need to reschedule!!

I am so ****ty...I have to drop the course now and try to fit a different lab in. Not Happy.

Talk with the dean? That seems a little too strict on part of the lab coordinators.

 

[PreMedRookie]

Talk with the dean? That seems a little too strict on part of the lab coordinators.

Ya she just started at my school last semester. She is not happy with me currently. I hate going above someone's head to get something I want but I think this is necessary.

 

[Blackxp]

Weird, most classes I have taken usually allow for a few absences. Mainly to allow for sickness and other life events that come up.

 

[TheBossDoctor]

A lot of professors say no to missing the class, using the excuse of "when you signed up for this class, you knew we had class/test on X days and you still chose to enroll"

 

[TheBossDoctor]

My roommate used to just go to the doctor, fake being sick, and get a doctors note to give to the professor every time he missed classes because of interviews.

 

[PreMedRookie]

So I am dropping the class and picking up another one, which also caused me to have to switch out another course. On my primary app I put the classes that I was planning on taking this semester. My question is...do I have to now update all schools with my new schedule or do they not really care?

 

[Redpancreas]

So I am dropping the class and picking up another one, which also caused me to have to switch out another course. On my primary app I put the classes that I was planning on taking this semester. My question is...do I have to now update all schools with my new schedule or do they not really care?

It's tentative. I don't think they'll care