Too many classes?

[prayer power]

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Hi guys I am new here! I was going to retake the DAT, but schools told me to take classes to raise my GPA since it's my first concern. So I signed up for intro anatomy/physiology, microbiology, anatomy, nutrition, astronomy, and philosophy, which is going to be a total of 22 units. I know it's goig to be a lot of work. I tried to balance two easy ones, three harder ones, and the non-science classes. Please let me know how this looks. I don't have any work this semester, and i will no longer study for the DAT, so studying for 6 classes wouldn't be too difficult.

Anybody have any ideas on this? Any suggestions are appreciated!

 

[Predoctalk]

anatomoy/physiology and anatomy?

 

[dentalWorks]

"anatomy/physiology, microbiology, anatomy, nutrition, astronomy, and philosophy"

so you have 1 class that is "anatomy+physiology" and another which is pure anatomy I assume. Why are you taking astronomy and philosophy? I always thought that when dental schools want you to raise your GPA, they want you to do it with legitimate science course (biology related).

Take off that astronomy and philosophy and replace them with intro to psycology (more and more dental schools are starting to turn this into a required pre-dental class) and one of the following: Biochem, genetics, cell biology, pharmacology, perhaps an upper level physiology (300 or 400 level).

Im gonna warn you though, if you take my advice on these courses, your going to be a little overboard cause these classes are no joke. Sure almost any idiot can pass that semester, but it takes a SERIOUSLY hard working student to pull of 3.5 or higher on the whole semester. Expect to study 4-5 hrs a day and most of your weekends.

 

[Aceofspades]

I always thought that when dental schools want you to raise your GPA, they want you to do it with legitimate science course (biology related).

Nope, it doesn't matter. A GPA is a GPA. In fact, I would actually advise people not to be biology/chemistry/other related science major. You can have no labs and an easier time in college. There are lots of fun with an interesting liberal arts majors. Plus, you can distinguish yourself from the 90% of people interviewing with bio/chem majors.

 

[spud daddy]

Nope, it doesn't matter. A GPA is a GPA. In fact, I would actually advise people not to be biology/chemistry/other related science major. You can have no labs and an easier time in college. There are lots of fun with an interesting liberal arts majors. Plus, you can distinguish yourself from the 90% of people interviewing with bio/chem majors.

What? I don't know if you are joking, but no, adcoms will look at what classes you have taken and if they see a student with a 4.0 in philosophy and astronomy or a 3.8 in genetics or biochemistry, what do you think their decision will be? Plus there is a reason 90% of the people interviewing are bio/chem majors. But if you were being sarcastic, hahahahaha. To the op, drop the fluff classes and take the real science courses. The worst thing that can happen is that you will be more prepared for dental school.

 

[subdoc]

Instead of asking a bunch of predents this question, I feel you would be best served to communicate with your target school's admissions counselors. They can point you in the right direction. As far as course load and your ability to handle it, only you can answer the question. Reading my quarterly schedule for UW, I see on average about 21 hours per term...proven ability to do well while managing a high course load is a major feather in the cap for applicants and is something Admissions Committees like to see...preferably course load while taking science courses, but high course load first, high course load with overload on science courses second.

 

[Impulse155]

If I was you I would drop the astronomy. Theres no reason to retake the DAT if schools are telling you to raise your gpa. It would also help alot if we had your stats (DAT scores, SGpa, CGpa).
22 credits is insane. This semester I am taking 18 which I completly regret. The amout of work is just rediculous. (Anatomy + Physiology, Microbio, Bio lab, Physics, Physics Lab, Business, and a random elective). If I was you I would defiantely consider dropping a class.

 

[PaulieGualtieri]

@ OP, stats? DAT/GPA

 

[dentalWorks]

Nope, it doesn't matter. A GPA is a GPA. In fact, I would actually advise people not to be biology/chemistry/other related science major. You can have no labs and an easier time in college. There are lots of fun with an interesting liberal arts majors. Plus, you can distinguish yourself from the 90% of people interviewing with bio/chem majors.

I wasn't talking about a major. I was referring to post-bacc courses. If you finished undergrad with a low gpa and u want to raise it, it would be silly to do post-bacc with non-science courses.

 

[Philippines03j]

I will not say what classes you should or shouldn't because you would probably want to look at the schools you are applying to and see what class they recommend you take. However, I will say be sure to schedule a load that you will be able to get ALL A's in. The last thing you want to do is overload your schedule and get C's or B's in your classes(IMO).