Courseload/MCAT

[empirestate]

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Hey all,

I am taking orgo/orgo lab/biochem for premed reqs next year and taking the MCAT immediately following.

As a current Humanities major, I am interested in majoring in Bio - with the premed reqs I've already taken it's possible by adding only 2 classes to my schedule next year (genetics and cell bio) which i've heard are helpful for the MCAT anyway.

I'm concerned for my mental health however, as second semester I would be taking orgo/orgo lab/biochem/genetics or cell bio/12 hrs research/lots of ECs + MCAT prep for that May. Doable or just a bad idea???? I need to get my sGPA up so I can't afford bad grades due to overworking myself...but I need more science classes...but I also need to get a good MCAT score to make up for aforementioned low sGPA...will taking these classes help me on the MCAT enough to compensate for all the extra classwork...?...HELP!!!

 

[Bac Si]

i'm currently taking 25 hours and studying for the mcat for april. i'll come back in may and tell you how i did. lol

 

[Elmnt]

I am taking (quarter system) Ochem 2, Ochem lab 1, Physics 3 (calculus based), and somali foreign language. It is 17 qtr hours. The first half of the quarter I drilled the MCAT hardcore and was a little lax with my classes so I started to ease up on the MCAT and recover my classes. I scored a 33 on my first AAMC practice test and right now I am 99% sure I will get an A in physics and somali, however I have some ground to cover with the ochem courses but will probably end up with a B or B+ in both. That being said, it has been a tough quarter but definitely managable. I think it just depends on how well you handle a lot of work and especially how well you already understand the MCAT material before reviewing.

Forgot to mention that I will be testing in April also.

 

[empirestate]

I am taking (quarter system) Ochem 2, Ochem lab 1, Physics 3 (calculus based), and somali foreign language. It is 17 qtr hours. The first half of the quarter I drilled the MCAT hardcore and was a little lax with my classes so I started to ease up on the MCAT and recover my classes. I scored a 33 on my first AAMC practice test and right now I am 99% sure I will get an A in physics and somali, however I have some ground to cover with the ochem courses but will probably end up with a B or B+ in both. That being said, it has been a tough quarter but definitely managable. I think it just depends on how well you handle a lot of work and especially how well you already understand the MCAT material before reviewing.

Forgot to mention that I will be testing in April also.

thanks!!! i handle a lot of work pretty well (had to get my s*** in gear after poor freshman year grades) but my ECs are veeeery time-consuming, which is really what i'm worried about. also the fact that those poor grades are still haunting me, as i will basically have to relearn gchem from scratch plus probably physics. blegh