someone PLEASE chance a premed hopeful? =] - Page 3

SmithieandProud · 10-01-2009, 08:11 PM

I agree that the higher your GPA, the more motivated you are to complete Latin Honors. But even if you have a low GPA, your completion of Latin Honors requirements is noted on your transcript, even if you don't receives a cum laude, summa cum laude, or magna cum laude on your diploma.

MWFN- Yes, if you are placed in an upper level course, you enroll in one-semester long courses and get credit at the end of each semester. You also usually only have class two days a week. It is only if you are taking a brand-new language and starting out in the intro course that you are required to do an entire year in order to get credit for either semester (so if you're in year-long intro spanish, and you drop the class at the end of fall semester, you don't get credit for the one semester's worth of work you did. But if you stay for the whole year, you get two semester's worth of credit).

Also, intro courses meet quite a bit, either five days a week or three days a week for an hour and a half or more. So if you're starting a new language it can be a little daunting and make it difficult for you to take many other courses. I dropped French for Arabic and it was a major time problem for me. First year of Arabic I had intro three days a week for two hours plus per class plus homework. Second year it was three days a week for one hour and ten minutes, but the homework was even more intense. Languages are great, but they're not easy on your time.

Momwaitingfornew · 10-01-2009, 09:14 PM

I believe the same is true for musical performance -- you have to take both semesters to get 2 credits per semester.

joeyatpoly · 11-02-2009, 02:01 PM

I was wondering could APs in Chem/Bio/ and Physics exempt you from any pre-med requirements?

CrewDad · 11-02-2009, 03:47 PM

MHC and Penn's websites are a good resource. Or email your questions to Smith prehealth@smith.edu

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Advanced Placement (AP) credit may enable you to exempt out of an introductory Mount Holyoke course (departmental requirements differ). But medical schools usually do not accept AP credit to fulfill a premedical requirement. It’s best to take the AP credit and use it to get into more advanced courses. For instance, if my AP score exempts me from Bio 145/150, I may ask to take Bio 200 in the spring and then Bio 210, a more advanced course, the following fall to complete my two required semesters of bio.

Planning :: Pre-Health Programs :: Mount Holyoke College

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Also, note that through the AP program you can earn credit for the lecture components of science courses but not for the laboratory components, required by all but one of the 125 M.D. programs in the United States.

Career Services, University of Pennsylvania