Molec or Cell Bio for MCAT?

[leumas614]

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If you had a choice between molecular and cell biology, which would you take before the MCAT? Would you take both? What about microbiology? Do med schools care which bio courses you take?

 

[jsong812]

If you had a choice between molecular and cell biology, which would you take before the MCAT? Would you take both? What about microbiology? Do med schools care which bio courses you take?

IMO, I would say cell biology. Although the class goes into a lot of detail, it helps integrate the material from your introductory biology courses. It gives you the "big picture" which is essential for doing well on the MCAT. Hrm, now I just realized you said "molecular" biology and not "microbiology."(heh) Cellular biology at my school actually has an introductory molecular biology unit and so it was more than adequate for MCAT purposes. The only thing that it didn't go into detail with was pedigrees...Hope that helps.

-james

 

[sweetstuff25]

If you had a choice between molecular and cell biology, which would you take before the MCAT? Would you take both? What about microbiology? Do med schools care which bio courses you take?

i personally felt molecular biology helped a lot more than cell biology. the topics in molecular bio may overlap topics in microbiology but cell biology went into depth that was unnecessary for the mcat.

 

[EBI831]

cell bio most definitely. i didn't have any molecular and i didn't see anything i didn't know. cell bio, on the other hand, happened to coincide with everything we learned in our prep course and it covered all the info. also, when people were crying about a certain curveball question on the discreets in the mcat this year, i def knew it because--pause---i'd just learned it in cell bio.