<p>Is it true that because a JC is considered less rigorous by med-school adcoms, a student at said institution will have to take a heaver course load just to make up for the lack of rigor?</p>
<p>Bump…</p>
<p>Basically.</p>
<p>I don’t know that you would have to take a heavier course load but in my opinion you would need to balance the fact that it is a JC in some way. This could be an outstanding record of extracurricular work (in addition to all my school work I flew to Africa and administered vaccines and handed out condoms type thing), or simply fantastic grades (I never ever got even a B+ type thing). I suppose that both of those would be harder than just taking 22 credits so maybe you should weigh the options. I would just tack on a psych class every semester (boost credits and gpa simultaneously) and do more MCAT prep if I were you. Med schools don’t have time to go through and individually rate “oh this school is slightly harder than that one but not this one” so if your grades are fantastic on a tough workload and you pump out a 33+ on the MCAT I think you would be fine.</p>