Survey regarding undergrad classes

[DoctorMT]

Hi everyone.

I would just like to get an idea of the workload people had during their undergrad who have gotten interviews. More specifically, what classes they were taking and how many. Of course if you have already been admitted to UBC med I would love to hear about your workload as well.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one who has wondered this. Hopefully this thread can provide some insight as to the workload standards we should try to meet.

 

Thanks!

[advair250]

UBC specifically doesn't care about the rigour of your courses, or the course load in their admission process. My friend got an interview and he's never taken more than 3-4 courses per term( he does 3 per term, and 3 in the summer as well).

[advair250]

And its common knowledge that alot of pre-meds these days take fluff courses with 90+ averages. I mean, with admission averages so high, who can blame them right?

[med??]

This is a topic I'm very curious about too. I got an interview and have a mixture of difficult semesters and semesters with some soft electives. Really wondering if this will come back to haunt me when they look at my application in more depth after the interview.

[megaMooMoo]

only 3 semesters I had 4 classes the rest i was doing 5. i have absolutely no social life. just school, work, volunteer and then family.

[jcbarnes]

Full courseload every year for me, and (idiotically on my part) quite a few "hard" science electives spread throughout (I just wasn't interested in a lot of the fluff courses being offered).

 

I doubt it makes a difference though; UBC doesn't have time to sift through every application and think about how hard any one course would be.

[BAMFtastic]

Me

 

English * 2

Psych * 2

Physics * 3

Biochem * 2

Philisophy * 1

Chemistry * 8

Bio * 8

Math *10

French * 2

Honors/Seminars * 3

 

Something like that - I mixed it up

[moab]

i did honours physics, about ~60 credits worth at the undergrad level (from dynamics to quantum mechanics and electromagnetism to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics) and about ~18 at the graduate level. i also have a minor in math, about ~30 credits. the balance of my undergrad was chemistry, english, and development studies.

 

edit: i should add that i was fortunate to have always been able to have studied full time

[Tricky]

I usually took 4 courses per semester and sometimes I took 5. Because of that I wasn't able to apply to quite a few schools in Canada. I don't think UBC cares that much. I only took one easy elective as I had to take orgo and biochem etc. for med pre-reqs and I also took some other courses for physio pre-reqs when I wasn't sure what I wanted to apply to. I ended up doing a bio minor which meant that I hardly had any electives and the classes I preferred - which meant I would be more interested and likely do better - were tougher classes. I also graduated with about an extra 5 classes. This was my first year applying and I got an interview.

[DaKirbster]

Full courseload every year for me, and (idiotically on my part) quite a few "hard" science electives spread throughout (I just wasn't interested in a lot of the fluff courses being offered).

 

I doubt it makes a difference though; UBC doesn't have time to sift through every application and think about how hard any one course would be.

 

This, except I had one semester with only 4 courses.