Consequences of Easy Semester?

[aarehman]

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So, I'm a biology major with a humanities minor, and I'm planning on graduating a semester early. I'm still going to apply to medical school in the normal cycle, but I'm lucky enough to only have to take 12-13 hours my last three semesters (junior year, 1st semester senior year). I'm not going to just be a jackass and sit around the rest of the time. I'll do some research and volunteering, but I was wondering how adcoms would feel about such a chill schedule. I would just rather do other stuff than just classwork for my last few years of school. Any opinions or ideas are appreciated.

 

[KMFDM]

They aren't going to care.

 

[Jolt21]

So, I'm a biology major with a humanities minor, and I'm planning on graduating a semester early. I'm still going to apply to medical school in the normal cycle, but I'm lucky enough to only have to take 12-13 hours my last three semesters (junior year, 1st semester senior year). I'm not going to just be a jackass and sit around the rest of the time. I'll do some research and volunteering, but I was wondering how adcoms would feel about such a chill schedule. I would just rather do other stuff than just classwork for my last few years of school. Any opinions or ideas are appreciated.

is this in the term you're applying? they won't care. as long as your prereqs are done. the more cool things you do with your free time, though, the more cool thing you'll have to talk about in interviews.

 

[TopSecret]

they aren't going to care.

+1

 

[NotSur]

is this in the term you're applying? they won't care. as long as your prereqs are done. the more cool things you do with your free time, though, the more cool thing you'll have to talk about in interviews.

This.

 

[aggie08]

They aren't going to care.

Seriously. I'm pretty sure I took 12 hours every semester, haha.

 

[strummin]

So, I'm a biology major with a humanities minor, and I'm planning on graduating a semester early. I'm still going to apply to medical school in the normal cycle, but I'm lucky enough to only have to take 12-13 hours my last three semesters (junior year, 1st semester senior year). I'm not going to just be a jackass and sit around the rest of the time. I'll do some research and volunteering, but I was wondering how adcoms would feel about such a chill schedule. I would just rather do other stuff than just classwork for my last few years of school. Any opinions or ideas are appreciated.

Actually, if it's 12-13 credits of only higher level biology electives, it might not be that easy. I remember one semester when I had only 12 credits but they were all difficult advanced biology courses (biochem, endocrinology etc) - it was actually one of my most difficult semesters since I didn't have any of those "easy" courses (english, psychology, philosophy etc.) to balance my courseload with.