Do I Really have to take An Entire Bio Class for .6 Credit Hours??

[SyrianHero]

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So I took a 5 credit hour bio class in a quarter system which equals 3.3 semester hours and now I'm going to take a 4 credit hour bio course in a semester system which would be short of the 8 credit hours that I need to apply to medical school, there is no 5 credit bio class that I can take. Any thought/suggestions?

 

[NuttyEngDude]

I thought you only needed 9 quarter hours (3 3 credit hours in a quarter system) ~1 year in a quarter system or 6 semester credit hours (2x3 credit hours). Anyways, if you come up short then yes you have to overshoot it.

If you feel you already have what you need you can apply and take what you need in the year of your interview. I imagine 0.6 credit hours would not be hard to swing even with a full load of anything else.

 

[SyrianHero]

Yea you are required to take 8 semester credit hours WITH lab, so I'd probably have to take another 4 credit hour bio class for .6 credit hours :'(

 

[SyrianHero]

Anyone else want to chime in?

 

[487806]

So I took a 5 credit hour bio class in a quarter system which equals 3.3 semester hours and now I'm going to take a 4 credit hour bio course in a semester system which would be short of the 8 credit hours that I need to apply to medical school, there is no 5 credit bio class that I can take. Any thought/suggestions?

Just take another bio course. Like biochem (though this is technically chem), genetics or cell bio

 

[mehc012]

Just take another bio course. Like biochem (though this is technically chem), genetics or cell bio

Don't blame biochem on us chemists! It is just as much a Bio catastrophe as a chem one. Biochem can usually be classed as either Bio or Chem, but it doesn't really fit well as either. I always saw it as 'take the most annoying aspects of intro chem and the most annoying aspects of Bio and squish them together".

 

[487806]

Don't blame biochem on us chemists! It is just as much a Bio catastrophe as a chem one. Biochem can usually be classed as either Bio or Chem, but it doesn't really fit well as either. I always saw it as 'take the most annoying aspects of intro chem and the most annoying aspects of Bio and squish them together".

Biochem is categorized as chemistry by AAMC. And the biochem lab I took heavily dealt with chemical kinetics and equilibria, so it's definitely chemistry on that aspect.

 

[mehc012]

Biochem is categorized as chemistry by AAMC. And the biochem lab I took heavily dealt with chemical kinetics and equilibria, so it's definitely chemistry on that aspect.

Huh. Weird. At my school Biochem 1 was taught by a chemistry professor, and Biochem 2 was taught by a biology professor. They were very different courses. Biochem wasn't a major of its own, but it was a concentration you got by taking a certain number of bio courses, a certain number of chem courses, and both years of Biochem.

 

[kyamh]

It's hard for me to compare because my school has a screwy credit system. That said, I haven't had much issue.

One of my intro Bio classes was a quarter of a credit less (still had a lab but only met once a week because it was an accelerated seminar based class, not standard lecture) than the normal lecture+lab course. I didn't think twice about putting it down as a second semester of Bio on my application and no school has complained yet. Then again, my "partial" course was still labeled as an introductory bio course so it was obviously part of a sequence that made sense.