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I'm in a similar position. I would strongly suggest against taking the full courseload during the school year unnecessarily. Take the summer courses. No school cares about what your major is.

Edit: did not see you are rewriting the MCAT during the summer. Yeah don't take 4 courses during the summer and study for MCAT. Write it early in summer before your courses pick up.

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my suggestion would be to take the 5th year and focus on the mcat this summer. i wouldn't advise taking 4 courses while studying for it. you've demonstrated that your GPA is high, so maintaining that in a 5th year shouldn't be a problem for you. 

the only real problem i see here is the time spent doing the 5th year - but you can use that entire year to better other parts of your application. a year will fly by much faster than you think. there's no stigma at all towards doing a 5th year. 

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I am confused about the issue.   Its only Feb 4th. Is this a winter term half-credit course that you have already given up on ?    What could your mark be in the course if you finish it and then what would your 4th year GPA and cGPA look like (estimated) ?    You don't need a 4.0 to apply to medicine.  Your cGPA is already so high that you are not in need of weighting.   Taking a whole 5th year so you can drop 1 course does not make sense.   You also delay a whole year of your life.       

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