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I have just been accepted into York university, Kinesiology bachelor of science. My course registration day is coming up and I am more confused than ever. I was talking to my friend, who is a 3rd year, and he told me to talk all the science courses in the first couple years of undergrad and take the easier non prerequisite courses in the last two years, apparently only the last two years count towards the GPA average. After looking into the medical school admissions websites I realizes that some even look at the GPA of the science courses separate from the overall average.

 

Long story short, I am wondering what kinds of courses should I take to make my life easier and achieve the best possible GPA.

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any course at york is a gpa booster, i don't see why you're having a hard time. pick courses at random and you will end up with all A+s on your transcript automatically

 

 

You should transfer to York then, shouldn't you? Do two quick years there, get 4.0 average, and be set for places like Ottawa, Queens, and Western.

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I have just been accepted into York university, Kinesiology bachelor of science. My course registration day is coming up and I am more confused than ever. I was talking to my friend, who is a 3rd year, and he told me to talk all the science courses in the first couple years of undergrad and take the easier non prerequisite courses in the last two years, apparently only the last two years count towards the GPA average. After looking into the medical school admissions websites I realizes that some even look at the GPA of the science courses separate from the overall average.

 

Not entirely true. Some universities take best 2 years, some take everything, some weigh the last two heavily. So no, if you want to keep all your options open, you should (obviously) aim to do well in every single course every year. Don't take difficult courses if you don't have to; play your strengths and downplay your weaknesses. Do majors that you like because as you've probably heard, major doesn't matter. And med school pre-requisites are also different for every school. Some schools have absolutely no prereqs, some have a lot and for some the prereqs are courses that you inevitable take.

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I have just been accepted into York university, Kinesiology bachelor of science. My course registration day is coming up and I am more confused than ever. I was talking to my friend, who is a 3rd year, and he told me to talk all the science courses in the first couple years of undergrad and take the easier non prerequisite courses in the last two years, apparently only the last two years count towards the GPA average. After looking into the medical school admissions websites I realizes that some even look at the GPA of the science courses separate from the overall average.

 

Long story short, I am wondering what kinds of courses should I take to make my life easier and achieve the best possible GPA.

 

You won't be able to take all necessary courses in your first two years. The last two years are not the only years that GPA counts for all schools. Plan on doing well in all four years of UG.

 

In the first two years there doesn't tend to be too much wiggle room in terms of course choice. You'll take your standard biology, chemistry, physics in year one, and have slightly more specific courses in year two (at least for most schools this tends to be their undergraduate structure). Take elective courses that interest you, my worst marks were my "bird" courses that I didn't care about because I couldn't be bothered to study a topic that didn't interest me, no matter how easy the material. In upper years you'll have more electives but you also need to take more upper year courses. There isn't a way to take all the required courses in the first two years.

 

I don't know of any school that looks at prerequisite marks on their own (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), you just need to complete them. And most will be done in the first two years of undergrad anyways, just by following the program outline.

 

There is no magic formula for course selection that will guarantee a 4.0 and entry into med school. No way to cheat the system: put in the work and hopefully it'll pay off in the end.

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You won't be able to take all necessary courses in your first two years. The last two years are not the only years that GPA counts for all schools. Plan on doing well in all four years of UG.

 

In the first two years there doesn't tend to be too much wiggle room in terms of course choice. You'll take your standard biology, chemistry, physics in year one, and have slightly more specific courses in year two (at least for most schools this tends to be their undergraduate structure). Take elective courses that interest you, my worst marks were my "bird" courses that I didn't care about because I couldn't be bothered to study a topic that didn't interest me, no matter how easy the material. In upper years you'll have more electives but you also need to take more upper year courses. There isn't a way to take all the required courses in the first two years.

 

I don't know of any school that looks at prerequisite marks on their own (someone please correct me if I'm wrong), you just need to complete them. And most will be done in the first two years of undergrad anyways, just by following the program outline.

 

There is no magic formula for course selection that will guarantee a 4.0 and entry into med school. No way to cheat the system: put in the work and hopefully it'll pay off in the end.

 

McGill looks at science prereq GPA, however a strong MCAT can make up for previous poor performance in the science prereqs

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So let me get this straight. You whine, moan, complain, and act like a sniveling little girl about your workload and I make fun of you, yet I'm upset? Riiiiiiight. You uh, have some sound reasoning abilities. I can see why you're doing so well.

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What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** to me over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

Ohh I remember you LOL you had another account before

You're not funny, I don't even see how you get a kick out of trolling like this.

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What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** to me over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

hahaha. man, i usually stay out of these forums that get off track, but this one is great. cheers FailureInLife, you gave me a good chuckle this evening, this is comical.

 

edit: comical looking in. getting threatened isn't so fun.

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What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** to me over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

You "graduated top in your class" yet you can't spell guerrilla warfare correctly.

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What the **** did you just ****ing say about me, you little *****? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the **** out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my ****ing words. You think you can get away with saying that **** to me over the Internet? Think again, ****er. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re ****ing dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ****ing tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will **** fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re ****ing dead, kiddo.

 

Well that sure escalated. I guess you went a bit too gung ho on my advice.

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