Dropping a grad. level course in undergrad?

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Hi all,

Junior here with a competitive 3.8+ GPA. I'm currently enrolled in biochemistry, Physics II, intro. psychology, research for credit, and a graduate school level chemistry course on instrumental, spectral analysis.

Long story short, this grad school course is getting way too hard and I would like to drop and take a W or WU.

How will this look to admissions, anyone know? On one hand, this is a grad. level course so it was way more work than I anticipated. On the other hand, medical school is probably that amount of work so dropping it may indicate I'm not at that level of academic prepardeness/discipline. Thoughts?

 

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No one will care about one W, particularly when you are already almost overextending yourself.

 

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Hi all,

Junior here with a competitive 3.8+ GPA. I'm currently enrolled in biochemistry, Physics II, intro. psychology, research for credit, and a graduate school level chemistry course on instrumental, spectral analysis.

Long story short, this grad school course is getting way too hard and I would like to drop and take a W or WU.

How will this look to admissions, anyone know? On one hand, this is a grad. level course so it was way more work than I anticipated. On the other hand, medical school is probably that amount of work so dropping it may indicate I'm not at that level of academic prepardeness/discipline. Thoughts?

Medical school isn't really comparable to a graduate-level chemistry course.

For the M1 year, think of the undergrad classes you're taking now like biochem and other classes (i.e. anatomy) but with way more lectures each week. That's essentially it. It's not particularly difficult content, just a lot more of it. There are also plenty of things I've learned in medical school that I actually covered in more depth in undergrad.
M2 is similar but with a greater clinical focus.

Also, you continually grow and are able to handle more. I have developed study habits as I'm just a few weeks out from taking step 1 that I never would have been able to maintain in undergrad or even in my M1 year. So I wouldn't worry about how you'll perform in medical school based on one snapshot of your life now, especially based on a single chemistry course. No use borrowing stress from tomorrow. If you get into medical school, you'll adapt as you need throughout the process just like everyone else.