Scheduling Conflicts!

[Algophiliac]

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I go to a huge university, and as such I am not able to register for the second semester physics class! 🙁 This is a royal pain in the ass, as I will most likely forget EVERYTHING by the summer. How do medical schools view taking pre-reqs during the summer, including the physics lab component, because I honestly have no other choice with their crappy registration systems?

Also, how do medical schools view taking online or extension courses (taught by same college instructors or by college-approved instructors, after regular class hours, for extra fees) for pre-reqs? I simply cannot fathom how I am going to complete my degree in four years if these scheduling issues keep cropping up! That's why I'm going to try and take enough credits to be considered in junior standing by my sophomore year, maybe. That's really the only way to get the classes I really need to take.

 

[sgtbrushes]

I attend a state university that also has a medical school. As far as summer courses, they have absolutely no effect, positively or negatively, compared to spring or fall courses. As far as online courses, DO NOT take medical school pre-reqs online. This is a fail, at least for my university's medical school. Now if you're talking gen ed course (Sociology, Psych, English Comp), my transcript does not even annotate that these are online, so it won't hurt my chances of med school admission at all.

 

[Global Warming]

It seems that a lot of people are having scheduling problems...maybe I actually need to schedule early next quarter...

 

[shiftingmirage]

Are your scheduling problems because you have two classes at the same time, or because the class is full? If the class is full, email the prof pronto and ask to be added to the roster. If the classes conflict, gotta decide which is more important/which you can take at a later time with less problems ie. less forgetting, offerred more often.

 

[Algophiliac]

The class is full, which happens very often at my university. I have e-mailed the professor, but he told me all he can allow me to do is register during the add/drop period if anyone fails the first semester and won't be able to take the second semester course. Quite honestly, I've been told the chances of getting off that waitlist and into the course are slim, since the waitlist is ALREADY practically a full class long.

I was thinking of taking Spanish courses online, to get the foreign language requirement out of the way. They take up too much credit space during the regular semester, since each of the four required classes is 5 credit hours!

Does anyone else have those on-campus after-hours extension courses or know how those are viewed by the medical schools?

 

[Tots]

Wow that sucks! I have never had a scheduling issue, though I have more units than most students in my major so I am almost always one of the first students to sign up for sequence classes.

Sucks that the wait-list is so long too! Here the waitlist is like a maximum of 40 people or so.

Good luck! though I doubt you will forget all the physics by the time summer rolls around, just hang in there.

 

[kami333]

The class is full, which happens very often at my university. I have e-mailed the professor, but he told me all he can allow me to do is register during the add/drop period if anyone fails the first semester and won't be able to take the second semester course. Quite honestly, I've been told the chances of getting off that waitlist and into the course are slim, since the waitlist is ALREADY practically a full class long.

I was thinking of taking Spanish courses online, to get the foreign language requirement out of the way. They take up too much credit space during the regular semester, since each of the four required classes is 5 credit hours!

Does anyone else have those on-campus after-hours extension courses or know how those are viewed by the medical schools?

Do these online or extension classes have a special course number? Some of my classes have been online or "extension eligible" classes, but if you look at my transcript you can't tell because the course numbers are the same as all other sections of the same class.

 

[Algophiliac]

Do these online or extension classes have a special course number? Some of my classes have been online or "extension eligible" classes, but if you look at my transcript you can't tell because the course numbers are the same as all other sections of the same class.

I believe they are marked separately as either online or extension courses (but really, I'm not sure if they have different course numbers!), so it would be obvious on my transcript that I did not technically take them as regular credit hour courses on campus. However, the extension courses actually are on campus, just after hours and for an extra fee. Assuming it is obvious they are extension courses, would it be unwise to take pre-reqs or other courses through this method?

Also, would it really be a problem if I took those Spanish courses online instead of in a classroom? I'd love to learn a new language in a classroom and everything, but there's just not enough room in my four-year plan for all those Spanish courses.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

I don't think it really matters where you learn a language. It doesn't even need to be in a classroom. If you're fluent, you're fluent, and I don't think anyone will care where you learned it. Keep in mind, though, that to actually become fluent you're going to need some exposure to the language beyond an online course.