Does taking graduate courses help

[Dreaming big]

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Does taking graduate courses help in med school admission? I would take psych grad classes.

 

[mfrizzo3]

no

 

[Dreaming big]

Not really. It might come in handy if you wanted to go into psych after med school, but not any other specialty.

For med school admissions, your UGcGPA is what matters. For residency applications, if you have a gradaute degree, it CAN help (but also may not help).

Well, these are 2 grad level classes that are easy A's b/c they are study abroad, and are 3 weeks total in the summer. This will cost me around 3k.

 

[kami333]

If you take grad classes but get ugrad credit for them they should count towards your ugrad GPA. (Check with your school obviously). I've taken grad classes because they are starting to be the only thing left to take (I have 200+ credit hours so I've taken almost every bio class available)

 

[Dreaming big]

If you take grad classes but get ugrad credit for them they should count towards your ugrad GPA. (Check with your school obviously). I've taken grad classes because they are starting to be the only thing left to take (I have 200+ credit hours so I've taken almost every bio class available)

Yes, it will count to my ugrad gpa. Thats a good thing right?

 

[MilkmanAl]

Course work is largely unimportant in getting into med school...which you have already done.

 

[NotSur]

nope, they really don't care about the rigor of your courses...

 

[Mattabet]

I took a fair number of graduate classes. As above, not for the sake of taking graduate level work, but for the fact that it helped complete my major, and there really isn't much difference between an undergrad 380 and a graduate 403 class. I don't think it really helped, except that some of the classes were pretty interesting and specific, so it might help show some additional diversity of coursework. But there's not a benefit 400 level classes in and of themselves that I could discern.