How Bad is Orgo/Bio Together?

wefregegefg
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:44:17 +0000

“I don’t know of any medschool student that had to study that many hours as Wefreg is saying! If you have to study that much in UG, you won’t make it through medschool.”

Thanks, GA2012MOM, for implying that I won’t make it through medical school.

I was just detailing my personal experience taking bio and orgo together and trying to get A’s in both classes, while being on a sports team. Read the CTECs if you don’t believe me and ask your friends how they were, these classes are really hard and take a lot of hours if you want to do well. But, remind me again GA2012MOM what makes you so qualified to talk about how it is studying for these classes?

what classes do premeds tend to take besides premed classes? is it wise to take humanties type classes with lots of reading with that kind of workload?
yeah, its great to take reading type classes with bio and orgo. It gives you something new to do, instead of science and they are usually more interesting, and a different type of studying. Plus, those classes are so easy compared to the science ones, that you’ll probably get an A (ive only gotten As in them).


Is taking only 3 classes seen as “weak”? I am currently doing a summer program which gives me credit which means it is very possible for me to only take 3 when taking Orgo/Bio.
hope not, i did it for one quarter, i would definitely not do it for a full year. talk to the premed advisor. Though, I will say that taking an easy fourth class is not all that difficult compared to taking three classes, it doesn’t take too much time most of the time.
Given the fact that studying obviously comes first, how did you manage EC’s around your 12+ hour study days?
Its only some days that you have to go all out like that. But, you make ways and force youself to stop studying. Plus, its good to give yourself a break from studying, because if you don’t do any ECs, you’ll space your studying out more and be inefficient.