They were good for what they were meant to be…check the box courses while I was working (was contractually obligated for 10 years prior to med school, so I had time to kill…). The courses have changed since I took them from what I understand. The orgo series taught me enough to be familiar with terms and concepts when it came to MCAT study time (4 years after I took the courses), though I never really felt I knew the material all that well. A lot of that was my fault in not trying too terribly hard to really learn the stuff. I thought the biochem was actually pretty good, and was a good precursor to med school biochem. I’d like to think that the UNE courses are adequate since they’re run through the UNE COM.
Downside to online courses is that not all schools accept them. There are enough schools that take them now, and there will probably be more in the future. See some of my other posts about it for more info so I don’t become repetitive. Let me know if you have other questions.
UNE was pretty expensive, and I’m not sure how the loan situation works, especially for part-time. I was fortunate enough to get some of the cost offset through my job.
When all was said and done, I took a Kaplan self-paced MCAT prep course that I crammed into about 3 months. It was good enough to relearn all of the material and retain it for just long enough to take the test and do well enough to get in somewhere. That was the “old” MCAT, so there was less material for me to cram into my noggin…