<p>I’ve been playing around with my prospective schedule and it seems I have no choice but to double up 2 courses that have labs in 1 term (pre-med) before the MCAT date. How hard will this be? How frequent are these labs? (in bio, chem and phy, respectively)</p>
<p>Don’t do it as a first term student as it will be a lot of work especially as you are adjusting to life as a college student. </p>
<p>For example if you take Chem 1 or honors chem 10, the class meets mon, wed, fri @ 10 am. IF your professor decides that they want to use their X hour, then the class will meet 4 X a week.</p>
<p>Labs are 4 hours ( not counting the pre-lab and post lab work), then you have to factor time in to do problem sets, 2 rounds of midterms (remember this happens around the 4th and 7th week) and a final. Grading in the sciences are pretty straight forward (the average of the 3 exams). </p>
<p>Even from an advising perspective, Dartmouth states:</p>
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<p>that being said, having two labs at a time isn’t that hard. The labs might claim to be four hours long, but really they rarely last that long. The thing to worry about in these classes is not the lab work, but rather the difficulty of the courses themselves. You might want to consider taking two intro-level lab courses at the same time instead of two more difficult courses.</p>
<p>While taking two labs at the same time might seem daunting, you get used to it really quickly, and it’s really not that difficult. College isn’t supposed to be easy anyway. It definitely doesn’t kill you though, that I can say for sure.</p>
<p>thanks for replying, I have another quick question</p>
<p>About these post/pre lab reports, I have no idea what those are, the classes will teach me “everything” I need to know right?</p>