Overload on Engineering Science classes or have variety?

[Vader1990]

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Hi, I'm a BME at JHU, and I'm about to register for classes again soon! I plan to go to Med School after my senior year (potential entry: Fall 2012).

I was wondering if it was smart for me to take classes now that are part of my BME focus, but are also coded for Engineering and Science (basically Engineering classes that count in my science GPA) all right now, and save my Humanities for later, so should I have a balance?

I have around like a 3.5ish, for my science courses, but if I take all my BME EN. classes now, I can def. raise that to mid 3.6.

On, the other hand, I really am interested in taking certain Economics classes, and perhaps a class or so in History, Business, and the Humanities. Should I mix and match to have a variety or just brute force all Engineering Science, and try to hit close to that 4.0 each sem, and save all the humanities and NON-SCIENCE for Senior year, once I'm done applying to Med Schools?

I CAN do well in ALL E/S, I've been doing that and been on Dean's List ALL my semesters here thus far, I was just wondering if my plan is good or not?

Thanks for the insight guys 🙂

 

[chman]

I say spread everything out as much as you can.

 

[FlowRate]

Old-school schools that look at your transcripts will be impressed by 17+ credit semesters of all-science classes with great grades (get a 4.0 dude!) Many posters on SDN do not seem to believe that these schools exist anymore.

 

[chman]

Old-school schools that look at your transcripts will be impressed by 17+ credit semesters of all-science classes with great grades (get a 4.0 dude!) Many posters on SDN do not seem to believe that these schools exist anymore.

Also, that could end up backfiring.

 

[FlowRate]

Also, that could end up backfiring.

I know not everyone is like me, but semesters packed with science and engineering are a reality to me (and many other pre-meds) every semester for 4 years. One semester shouldn't kill any competitive future med student, methinks.

I know that I've personally been told by adcoms for smaller/state schools that they like to see students who can take the aforementioned workload. I guess GPA is statistically more important than proving you can hack a heavy schedule, but I kinda feel it's a cheap way to go about doing things.

 

[Vader1990]

I decided to go middle of the road, take about 70% relatively tough Science/Engineering and Math classes and about 1 or 2 [depending of the semester] easy Economics, English, or Humanities Classes!