Undergraduate Courseload

WayOutWestMom
Sat, 19 May 2012 10:59:27 +0000

SS-- are you planning on taking the MCAT after your soph year? (A reason to take physics as soph instead of waiting until jr. year.)

If you are doing this to avoid the new MCAT, this strategy may not work. AAMC and the admission departments of ALL US allopathic med schools haven’t decided if the 2015 MCAT will REQUIRED for all applicants for 2016 admission. AAMC will issue a binding policy decision this July. It appears quite likely that the new MCAT will be required for those applying to start med school in 2016 or later.

However, if you just want to get all your science reqs out of the way–your soph schedule is quite do-able. Physics is mostly reasoning and math skills. Quite different from the skills called upon in OChem. (And both my kiddos who were double science/math majors would call only three science/math classes each semester an easy year…They often had 4 or some cases 5 science/math each semester for multiple semesters in a row. They survived–and with their GPAs intact.)