Please help--Class decisions/track?

[Maeri]

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Hello! Thanks for taking the time to read this!🙂

I am a freshman at an all Honors College. My major is Medical Humanities, and I am pre-med. I am putting together my schedule for spring semester, and am trying to figure out what to do for science classes...

The usual track at my school is to take Bio, chem, and pre-calc/calc for first semester freshmen. I took bio and lab, spanish 1, and drawing 1 instead--I had recently been very unwell after I had an appendectomy that went wrong. My doctor told me to take it easy for the first semester, so I didn't take chem and math with bio. However, now I am feeling well, but I am behind... I'm looking to take biodiversity and lab, spanish 2, painting 1 and perhaps a law class (art and law ties in with my major) this semester and then take either Pre-calc or chem 1 at my local state college at the same time. (My school doesn't offer either class in the spring.)

I'm not sure which to take though. If I took chem 1 during spring, I could take chem 2 during summer--but would it look bad to med schools to take chem at an ex community college? The other option would be to take pre-calc or calc and say goodbye to catching up in time to take MCATs junior year...

Thanks so much!

 

[bioman1275]

you need to get Bio 1 & 2, Chem 1 & 2, Organic chem 1& 2, Physics 1 & 2 , and biochem out of the way ASAP to be ready for the MCAT. focus on them instead of drawing classes.... I mean they are whats going to determine your career, unless you want to be a (gasp) artist. save classes like Spanish for when your in Cell Bio or Vertebrae Embryology or Molecular Bio.

 

[Flashfan]

It is a shame that you chose Bio over Chem. With the MCAT requirements, you need to get 5 semesters in chemistry in before you take the MCAT. If you can catch up and take O-Chem and Biochem at your university, it would probably look okay. You may be asked about it in an interview, but you should be fine.