Published Dec 30, 2010
OBplease
203 Posts
This semester I'm taking AP2 and Psych.(Lifespan and Dev.). I am thinking about adding a class to my schedule. Which will be best? The pre and co-reqs I have left for the programs I am applying to are:
Pharm.
Sociology
Microbiology
Microcomputer
English
Visual/Fine Arts Elective
Even though, I only need a 3hr Microcomp. class, the school I am doing my classes at right now it is 4 hours. Micro. would also be 4 hrs and obviously I really don't want to do that with AP2 anyways. What will complement my schedule? Thanks!
Butterfly0328
286 Posts
It really depends on how well you are able to "absorb" the material in A&P. How did you do in A&P I? Personally I would never take 2 sciences at the same time. I wanted to focus on one at a time to get the best grade possible. I would personally take either the sociology or english. I was able to take both online and at my own pace. They were both fairly easy classes. But as I said, really depends on many factors. There have been plenty of people on this forum that have take A&P and micro. Good Luck
KFoss
54 Posts
i personally would not take soc and psych together but that is my bias. too similar but too different at the same time.
i specifically did not take a&p 2 with micro...just finished a&p and starting micro in jan...the c.c. i attend has a microbiologist who teaches micro like a 400 level class but i have also heard from other people that the micro they took at other schools was a joke. a&p 2 was harder for me than the first got a 3.9 in first 3.7 in the second (one stupid test ruined the higher grade) and a&p was the only class i was taking. (i like to blame work lol)
i would do the elective or the english since they would not conflict with the other required classes. i look at it like this, why make things harder on yourself and decrease your ability to get a good grade and get into school.
I did AP1 in the summer and got an A but it was my only class at the time. I know that I could have done better with it in a regular semester because all of my kids would not have been home and it would have provided my more time with the regular semester. I was still happy to get the A, I just know that I could have gotten a higher one. I love anatomy though and am really excited to get into AP2.
I am planning to try something different this semester and that is get up an hour earlier to do my reading instead of waiting until the end of the day, when I am already so tired. I think this will be really good for me and I expect to be able to get much more accomplished this semester.
I was thinking...
Spring- AP2, Lifespan, Sociology or Arts
Summer- Pharm., Arts or Sociology
Fall- Micro., English
Microcomp.- I only need if I don't get into the program at my current school. I feel pretty confident that I will though because it's LVN, then RN and I will have all the RN pre and co-reqs done by the time I apply for the LVN portion. So I can hold off until next spring for Micro, if I need it, but in all honestly it doesn't even have to be completed until the second year of that program anyways.
So I guess Arts or Sociology for this semester. I have a week to add it and it would probably be internet.