<p>Hi, I’m a CV honors student at UTD as well as a pre-med and a neuroscience major (although I am switching to biology as I want to pursue a degree with more electives to put in some liberal arts and writing classes). Although I am only a freshman CV hasn’t been very detrimental to my GPA. Participation in the CV events/extracurricular activities is completely optional. In my case I wasn’t very involved in the CV program my 1st semester as I was still adjusting to the college workload. CV classes are mainly liberal arts classes and readings classes, at least for the past two semesters I registered for although there are science classes as well! This upcoming spring semester they offered neurobiology which can satisfy an upper level elective for the degree plan. Last semester they offered intro to psychology honors which is a good class to take considering you will be taking the new mcat. I took the honors psychology class last semester and it wasn’t too different from the normal psychology class and it was actually pretty easy especially since my class was only a size of 15-20 (compared to my other classes of 200). My next semester im taking honors local/state govt. to finish off my core requirements. CV offers a lot of core requirement classes that you can take just to be done with them as well as get your honors credit. It hasn’t been detrimental to my GPA at all and if you study hard you can do it. I would definitely give it a shot, anything that can help your med-school chances would be worthwhile trying right? Just because you get into the program doesn’t mean you have to continue it all the way through. Some pre-meds decide to start the program and quit it because they don’t want to add on a CV class to there already hard schedule in their later years. As far as I know, there is no penalty for not finishing the CV program. Even if you’re not sure how you will be able to handle it try it out. You get early registration (same day as seniors) and get to be in small classes as a freshman!</p>