How do medical school look the clep exams?

[vincikai]

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How do medical school look the clep exams?
I am a junior biochem/ fine art double major, due to time conflict and have English as my second language I have not taken much writing based liberal arts classes. I have only one freshmen writing and one humanity class on my transcript. However I do have a few history/social sciences CLEP exams with score above 70~/80. does any one know AAMC's view about the CLEP?
How do medical school look the clep exams?
I am now quite a bit alarmed by the fact this can greatly hurt my chances in the application cycle.
so...what do i do? take more english writing classes in my junior year?

 

[medguy83]

I think clep is okay as long as it's not in a required class like gen chem or something; I think most med schools want to see that you actually took the class. As far as humanities are concerned I think it's okay to clep those that you can, as long as you leave English (communications) as an actual class since it's required as well. Med schools like to see a well-rounded individual so I think anything in the humanities/arts will help out as well.

 

[Inuranic]

My English credits are all CLEP, so I've paid close attention to this.

From what I've seen, schools are more concerned about CLEP credit in the science pre-reqs, and care a lot less about English. Many specifically state that if you have CLEP credits in the sciences, you must take an upper-level course, but say nothing about English.

We'll see how this goes. Worse comes to worse I'll take an English or two in the Spring. I also have a lot of other Humanities/Social Science courses that were writing-intensive, so that might help.

 

[vincikai]

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