Med Schools That Only Require 1 Orgo

[allthesp]

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I am a rising senior at a top 20 university. I was pre-med for the first 1.5 years and completed all the requirements except for Orgo 2. I got burned out after those years and have been doing Economics/Comparative Literature. I got all As for the classes and labs except Orgo 1 (had pneumonia during final and got B+).

My question: What med schools, other than UF, require only one semester of Orgo? I can study for the MCAT during the summer and refresh, but I doubt I will be able to do well in Orgo 2.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[unhappytnt]

I thought all schools needed a full year of OChem? Even if that's not true, you are still better off taking it anyway because of the MCAT.

 

[allthesp]

At this point I am concerned more with my original question, which was: What med schools only require one semester of Orgo?

Bump.

 

[BBender716]

Look at my MDapps. I took one semester of orgo and a semester of biochem. Only Mayo and Ohio State told me I would need to take orgo II prior to matriculating, fwiw.

 

[mmmcdowe]

At this point I am concerned more with my original question, which was: What med schools only require one semester of Orgo?

Bump.

Buy an MSAR, every school's reqs are listed.

 

[BBender716]

Buy an MSAR, every school's reqs are listed.

Even better. 👍 If you buy an MSAR for $25 and it saves you from applying to even ONE school that doesn't accept any OOS, it will pay for itself.

 

[Gabby]

Did you take biochem? I'm pretty sure the schools that only require one semester of orgo want a semester of biochem.

 

[Web MD]

It's irrelevant because if you end up having a patient somewhere down the road suffering from nucleophilic attack at their carbonyl carbon you won't know the mechanism to treat them and they'll die

 

[mspeedwagon]

👍. There are NO schools that accept only Orgo I. There are some that accept orgo I and biochem... I was planning to do this end here is a link to a thread I started: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=674097.

After contacting many schools I was really interested in (especially in CA), the vast majority would NOT accept this. I decided to take o-chem II so as to NOT greatly limit the number of schools I could apply to.

Did you take biochem? I'm pretty sure the schools that only require one semester of orgo want a semester of biochem.