FWS are like real courses right?

Colleges & Universities Cornell University
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<p>FWS are real courses right and count towards the guideline of 4-5 courses per semester?</p>

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<p>o_O </p>

<p>yes mariam…in fact writing all those papers will probably be the worst part of your fall semester</p>

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<p>Yep. Equivalent to any other freshmen comp/writing class at other uni’s</p>

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<p>And as a pre-med we are free to choose which of the FWS we want to take right? Med schools will not think poorly of us if we take a FWS on say Africana studies or something right?</p>

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<p>They’d probably prefer that to a “How to write a publication FWS”</p>

<p>Not that that exists, but you get my point.</p>

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<p>totally agree…writing those papers were DEFINITELY the worst part of the semester. I may be an engr major, but even my govt major roomie agreed</p>

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<p>I don’t get it. Don’t medical scholars get published more often than study african history?</p>

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<p>^i think the point is that med schools see thousands of applicants with the same courses and such and that having diverse interests would be a plus</p>

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Please don’t structure your Cornell curriculum around what you or others presume medical schools want to see. Aside of course from core reqs like orgo and physics, take what interests you. I’m not on a medical school adcom but I’d bet my left nut that they won’t think twice about the subject of your FWS.</p>

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<p>Oh ok. Luckily, you have a left nut to bet.</p>

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<p>It is slightly more advantageous to take a FWS that is offered by the English department. Some med schools have writing course requirements while some med schools have English/literature requirements. An English course is always accepted to satisfy any writing requirement but not all med schools accept writing-intensive courses to satisfy their English requirements. A FWS offered by the English department would kill two birds with one stone.</p>

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<p>I’ve seen Med school admit people who took illustrious classes such as “Totally Awesome Math”, “Dinosaurs”, “Intro to Wines”, “History of Sex” and other things.</p>

<p>Really, med schools are not petty enough to care about **** like this.</p>