master's -- work load

[em8r]

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I wasn't sure where to put this exactly, but the people in this forum seem to know quite a bit about adcoms (some of them anyway) and the way they look at applications. I am a new grad student working on a Master's in Sci starting this semester, and I was wondering if it made any difference at all to adcoms whether you took 9 hours of grad credit or around 12 per semester. Not 9 or 12 hours specifically, but just generally. The reason I want to cut back is because I have the MCAT to worry about, aside from jobs and volunteering. But maybe it would 'look' better if I had the bigger course load. I would like to not go insane this semester with yet another hard science course (and theyre all science courses) but then again it might be worth it. Plus the only available extra class is Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering or whatsit and I'm not really sure how science courses that deal with plants do as a preparation for medical school, even though the genetic eng. part sounds interesting.

Soo...I don't know if that's being overly analytical or anal about things, but then again I don't really know how analytical or anal most adcoms are about certain things either :\

Thanks alot for any feedback!

 

[madonna]

I wasn't sure where to put this exactly, but the people in this forum seem to know quite a bit about adcoms (some of them anyway) and the way they look at applications. I am a new grad student working on a Master's in Sci starting this semester, and I was wondering if it made any difference at all to adcoms whether you took 9 hours of grad credit or around 12 per semester. Not 9 or 12 hours specifically, but just generally. The reason I want to cut back is because I have the MCAT to worry about, aside from jobs and volunteering. But maybe it would 'look' better if I had the bigger course load. I would like to not go insane this semester with yet another hard science course (and theyre all science courses) but then again it might be worth it. Plus the only available extra class is Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering or whatsit and I'm not really sure how science courses that deal with plants do as a preparation for medical school, even though the genetic eng. part sounds interesting.

Soo...I don't know if that's being overly analytical or anal about things, but then again I don't really know how analytical or anal most adcoms are about certain things either :\

Thanks alot for any feedback!

i say concentrate on your mcat. if you dont do well the adcoms might not even get to your courseload. it look good when it shows that you can handle a load but its not like you just have few classes and not doing anything else. but then what do i know