How will schools view my last two years?

[The Walking Debt]

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I graduated from high school with ~30 college credits in 2013. I then went to college for a semester until my parents' house burned down (no one was hurt, thankfully) so I went back home for a semester to help them. I am now going into my junior year next semester, but I have enough credits to be a senior. I have a few classes that I still have to take before I finish my Bio degree (Biochem I and II, A&P I and II, Cell Bio, and another upper level elective or two), but I have to take these sequentially making me stay here for two more years while only taking ~8-11 credits a semester.

I've been conducting research, volunteering, and job shadowing. I'm also in the process of starting up my own organization to help children in hospitals and/or in underserved communities.

My question is: Will medical schools look down upon taking only 8-11 credits a semester for my last two years, even though I will be extremely busy volunteering, researching, studying for MCAT, etc.?

 

[Goro]

Yes. Going part time doesn't engender good faith that you will do we in med school. You're competing with people who go to school full time, get good grades and still find time to do ECs.

I graduated from high school with ~30 college credits in 2013. I then went to college for a semester until my parents' house burned down (no one was hurt, thankfully) so I went back home for a semester to help them. I am now going into my junior year next semester, but I have enough credits to be a senior. I have a few classes that I still have to take before I finish my Bio degree (Biochem I and II, A&P I and II, Cell Bio, and another upper level elective or two), but I have to take these sequentially making me stay here for two more years while only taking ~8-11 credits a semester.

I've been conducting research, volunteering, and job shadowing. I'm also in the process of starting up my own organization to help children in hospitals and/or in underserved communities.

My question is: Will medical schools look down upon taking only 8-11 credits a semester for my last two years, even though I will be extremely busy volunteering, researching, studying for MCAT, etc.?