Similar classes looking bad?

[alt91119]

---

Members don't see this ad.

During high school, I took 34 college credits (not in a college in high school type thing, but actually took the classes at a low ranked 4 year university). 4.0 there. A few of the classes I took were Anatomy and Physiology I and II and Statistics.

When I began college "for real" (not transferring), I began at a much harder school as a humanities major. I did really great freshman year, but had a horrible sophomore year with Bs in Physics I,II, and Ochem I, and a C in OchemII, as well as B+s in Ochem Lab I and II.

As such, I both need to raise my BCPM gpa as well as prove to adcoms that I can handle the courseload of medical school.

I am currently set to take Human Physiology and Statistics for the fall semester of my junior year. Is this a bad idea? Will adcoms think I am just trying to repeat something I've already done for an easy grade?

More information: The statistics class I took in highschool transferred in as a class that is lower level than what I will be taking. Both are just named "statistics" by each school, but what the one from high school transferred in as at my current university is something like "statistics in the modern world". Additionally, the two semesters of A&P from high school (while kind of intended for nursing but actually listed under the biology department) transferred in as 6 credits, but not within the bio department (or any department).

So... thoughts?

 

[DocConk]

You'll be a junior?

 

[alt91119]

I don't believe that A&P will count towards your sGPA... So that stinks.

You'll be a junior?

It will count towards sGPA. At the original university it is listed within the Biology department as a biology class, and makes no mention of nursing within the course description.

And yes, I'll be a junior (technically a senior by credit standing, but I plan on graduating 1 semester "early" max).

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

I don't believe that A&P will count towards your sGPA... So that stinks.

You'll be a junior?

Of course it will count. Wtf.

OP, your repeating plan is bad. Find new classes.

 

[allantois]

At my school organic chemistry 2 as well as a year of general biology are all prerequisites for Human Physiology (2 semester course), which counts as an upper-division elective for Biology majors. Anatomy is a lower-division course sequence that has no prerequisites, which cannot be counted towards a science major (nurses take it, or anyone else who is not majoring in sciences).

But really, med schools don't care what classes you take in addition to your prerequisite curriculum.

 

[DocConk]

Of course it will count. Wtf.

OP, your repeating plan is bad. Find new classes.

My bad, Man. It's late.

 

[alt91119]

Of course it will count. Wtf.

OP, your repeating plan is bad. Find new classes.

I was going to take totally new classes the semester after. While I am always extremely hesitant to listen to premedical advisors, my undergraduate institution is connected to a top 20 medical school and has quite good advising. In fact, in order to make our acceptance rates look higher, the advisors frequently tell students with fairly good chances not to apply and that they have no chance. The advisor told me taking these two classes wasn't a bad idea and nobody would really care.

And I can always easily explain away the stat class by saying I didn't feel the previous class was rigorous enough and wanted to take something more challenging.

 

[allantois]

And I can always easily explain away the stat class by saying I didn't feel the previous class was rigorous enough and wanted to take something more challenging.

Why are you posting a question if you already have it all figured out?

 

[alt91119]

Why are you posting a question if you already have it all figured out?

Because I am one person, and what really matters is how certain other people view this plan. I want to know if my plans and reasoning "hold up" when analyzed by others.

And if my GPA is borderline and I get screened prior to interview based on something stupid like this, I wouldn't even get a chance to explain it away using that explanation.

 

[AlbinoHawk DO]

I was going to take totally new classes the semester after. While I am always extremely hesitant to listen to premedical advisors, my undergraduate institution is connected to a top 20 medical school and has quite good advising. In fact, in order to make our acceptance rates look higher, the advisors frequently tell students with fairly good chances not to apply and that they have no chance. The advisor told me taking these two classes wasn't a bad idea and nobody would really care.

And I can always easily explain away the stat class by saying I didn't feel the previous class was rigorous enough and wanted to take something more challenging.

So in a sentence you would strike down the entire 4.0 at that institution and make your overall GPA even more questionable. Imagine you don't get an A. You'd be in a TERRIBLE position.

 

[alt91119]

So is the consensus that I definitely should take different classes? Would ADCOMS even look that far into this? I'm worried because I'd have to make a radical schedule change if this is the case, and might have trouble getting into the right classes because everyone has scheduled at this point...

 

[alt91119]

Regradless, I will be taking biochemistry and another bio class with entirely new material in the spring. I proposed taking ecology instead of one of my current classes, and my advisor said that our pre health committee will see that as me trying to take something easy instead of the current plan.