I'm a 2nd year premed student at the University of Virginia interested in a biology and neuroscience double major. I have been doing research in the department of neurology at our hospital since 2nd semester of first year. This semester, I want to increase the intensity and go to the lab 10-12 hours per week, especially since I am applying to the neuroscience undergraduate major program this semester, and research is highly regarded in the application. I am currently taking the second semester of orgo lab, but I feel as if it would interfere with my research goals this semester and would rather take it over the summer. The orgo lab professor during the spring and fall semesters is different than the summer professor and is notoriously hard (got a B in orgo lab I first semester of this year, and it was my first ever). How would taking the second semester of orgo lab over the summer sit with adcoms? For stats, I have a solid 3.93 GPA and am an active EMT and a part of the club water polo team and clubs such as AMSA and AED premed honor society. I'm going to be in town during the summer to continue research and EMT anyways, so I thought to myself "why not take it then?"
Summer classes and research
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haha oh professor sundberg, jolly man. former wahoo myself so i know the difficulties it takes to get a B in that class. someone for ACOMS that B should read A++++. personally from past experience and what I did, I would HIGHLY recommend to get out of orgo asap, focus on EMT and research and take it over the summer.
It's not Sundberg, it's Donald Hunt.. orders of magnitude worse. So now I've decided to drop the lab and take it either next spring or this summer. I'm at 14 credits for this semester. Is it alright to take this few credits for one semester? I'm planning on doing EMT as well and packing in extracurriculars to make up for the lost class.
