How do medical schools know that your lecture course included a lab?

[cheesier]

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The title pretty much says it all...

My bio course is a lecture with a lab component. How will schools know?

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Course description.

 

[TriagePreMed]

Medical Schools request course descriptions. These must state if a lab component was present.

 

[cheesier]

Medical Schools request course descriptions. These must state if a lab component was present.

Thanks!👍

 

[JJMrK]

You'll type it in that way on AMCAS.

 

[Suenya]

If it's not clear, once you're accepted they might require you to prove it was a lab course (such as a letter from premed committee or someone at your school, or a PDF description on the school website etc). They don't have trouble figuring it out though.

 

[gravitywave]

You'll type it in that way on AMCAS.

this. when you fill out AMCAS, each course description entry will ask if the course was lecture only, lab only, or lecture and lab combined.

i think it always surprises people the extent to which a lot of this stuff is self-reported and, although in theory it could be verified, in fact it rarely is. a lot of this kinda stuff goes by the honor system, although if there was ever some kind of red flag and you got checked out, you'd be screwed, so i guess the assumption is that people just don't do it. know how every so often you'll read a story about someone who's been some faculty or administrator for 20 years gets canned because it turned out their whole CV was phony? yeah.... it happens.