Should I take histology or evolution?

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They're both upper level classes. I feel like evolution would be easier, but histology seems like it would look better on an application. What would you do?
 
My first class in DS is histology! If that helps to make up your mind. However, you don't need any knowledge in histology to do well in DS. So, choose what you think it's interesting.
 
If you know anyone who has taken those classes at your school, ask them how they felt about the class! I took an evolution class at my school and I should've known how hard it was.
 
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babytomato said:
If you know anyone who has taken those classes at your school, ask them how they felt about the class! I took an evolution class at my school and I should've known how hard it was.
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I asked one person so far and they recommended evolution over histology. gonna see if other people I know took it.
 
artist2022 said:
Histology no doubt - looks better, more relevant, will give you an upperhand basically in dental school since you'll have seen the material before/know what to look for in tissue sections.
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One of the thing that's holding me back is that the histology professor gives tough tests.
 
I was in a similar position when i was finishing undergrad years ago.

While yes, Histology will help tremendously with the dental school class, I ended up taking evolution and was glad I did.

Heres why.

1) No matter how much you know going into dental school, you are still going to put in a ton of hours regardless.

2) My histology class in DS had specific things they wanted to know and taught no need for extra.

3) It was my last semester of undergrad and already had my acceptance, i was burned out and wanted a small break mentally classes wise before dental school started.


If you have struggled with sience classes in the past I would recommend histology. If you are pretty solid and have a history if excelling in science classes I would take the easier class and enjoy my last semesters in college.
 
I would rather take evolution. It's something you'll never get to learn again, and you'll likely forget the bulk of your histology anyways. The upper level bios I took were classes like marine biology and mammalogy, and I'm glad I did because I got to learn something I'd otherwise never get to learn.
 
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