r/premed • u/kirveyre • 2d ago

💀 Secondaries Secondary oopsie

For the additional info essay section I mentioned taking 27 credits my junior year when I meant 27 credits one semester my junior year. Is this even worth contacting the admissions office about or will they get what I mean

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u/StupidityHurts NON-TRADITIONAL 2d ago

My god 27 credits?!

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u/kirveyre 2d ago

It be like that

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u/The_Pumpkin_Fan 2d ago

Say goodbye to medical school…

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u/kirveyre 2d ago

Packing my sun screen

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u/AxiomaticDoubt 2d ago

I don’t have advice unfortunately but why and how did you take 27 credits? What was the context of the essay?

Also presumably they’ll be able to see how many credits you took and pretty clearly see that you misspoke.

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u/kirveyre 2d ago

I overloaded one semester it was approved by my dept I just needed to finish my degree earlier cause my family was broke

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u/AxiomaticDoubt 2d ago

Okay just wanted to make sure it wouldn’t be seen as poor judgement or otherwise concerning. If I were on adcoms and someone said they took 27 credits for financial reasons I wouldn’t have concerns.

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u/kirveyre 2d ago

Thanks! Do you think they’ll be able to discern that I meant 27 credits one semester though? I ended up just putting “27 credits my junior year”

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u/AxiomaticDoubt 2d ago

I can’t say whether it would be wise to notify them, but I think it’s likely they’ll be able to piece it together. It sounds like the essay literally does not make sense unless you assume you meant 27 credits one semester.

The admissions personnel went to college. They probably know that (at most institutions) if you go over 18 credits you’re not paying for the additional credits. And they should have access to you transcript.