How many credits did you take while studying for the Mcat?

[Genefreak]

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I was just wondering how many credit hours did you take, while preparing for the Mcat. I plan on taking the Mcat next spring ( most likely May), but next spring I am signed up for 22 credits.

 

[ILikeDrugs]

I'm taking the MCAT this spring and have zero credits. 😀

 

[NYR56]

Honestly, that sounds like a terrible idea. Is there any way you can either change your courses or move the MCAT? Even if you moved it to the summer, that would help a bit.

I never took 22 credits in my life, that seems ridiculous. I usually took 14 or 16 credits in ugrad.

 

[nabeel76]

Basically look at it like this - think of the mcat as an intense 4-6 credit course depending on how fresh you are with the content/prereq material. It was more like a 6 credit course for me since it had been 4+ years since I had taken some of the prereqs prior to studying for the mcat.

If your fresh out of prereqs however (or have already gone over the content required for the mcat), and think you can handle a 26 credit course load (22 credits plus 4 for MCAT) then go for it. I personally think this is way too much and would recommend cutting your credit load down to 12 max (that would be equivalent to a 16-18 credit unit load when you add the 4-6 for mcat study time).

 

[apumic]

My MCAT students next semester will be doing the equivalent of a 6 to 9-unit course. It's about 25 hrs of homework assigned each week in addition to about 10-15 hrs of recommended video lectures and 2 hrs/wk live coaching. It is literally a full-time job! 22 hours along w/ that could literally kill you!

 

[Potatoman1800]

I was just wondering how many credit hours did you take, while preparing for the Mcat. I plan on taking the Mcat next spring ( most likely May), but next spring I am signed up for 22 credits.

Yah, don't do that