Taking weird, light schedule during last semester

[Endoxifen]

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I'm spending this semester away from campus working with a research group. I wanted to write my honors thesis on the work, but my old major wouldn't let me. Undeterred, I switched majors to another without that restriction. This does make my student schedule look very odd though. While the penultimate semester looks fine, the last one has introductory biology, a couple physics courses, a throwaway health policy class, and an English class, for a total of 14 credits. I'm going to be writing my thesis, so add on three more credits for independent research and maybe a TA slot (no credits), and that's going to be my schedule. Will that be a problem?

For reference, my schedule's looked really odd in the past. Last semester I only had 13 credits because a clerical error stopped me from getting research credits. This semester, I'm only doing research, so I only have 3 credits.

Thank you!

Edit: For clarification, I have to take those courses because they're requirements in the new major (premed) and not in the old (biochem). Ironically, I'll be TAing a 400 level bio class before taking intro bio.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Why would it be a problem? It's your last semester. If you have a college career of almost entirely full-time terms, you can obviously handle the load.

 

[Endoxifen]

Why would it be a problem? It's your last semester. If you have a college career of almost entirely full-time terms, you can obviously handle the load.

Maybe, but medicine is notoriously conservative. It's possible that they won't take kindly to my jumping about. While I don't regret what I did at all, I would prefer to be aware of any negatives.

 

[Frogger27]

No one what cares how many classes you took your last semester... it is a pre-med fallacy that adcoms would care about such a thing

 

[cactusman]

Don't you have >3.95 with an otherwise normal courseload and ECs during the school year? I can't imagine they'll be concerned about your ability to handle coursework based on one slightly lighter semester.

 

[Endoxifen]

Don't you have >3.95 with an otherwise normal courseload and ECs during the school year? I can't imagine they'll be concerned about your ability to handle coursework based on one slightly lighter semester.

Pretty much, yeah. I only started ECs, besides research, after sophomore year though, so I'm playing catch up. I'm taking a gap year though, so it should be fine.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Maybe, but medicine is notoriously conservative. It's possible that they won't take kindly to my jumping about. While I don't regret what I did at all, I would prefer to be aware of any negatives.

They will not care. This is not a thing.