<p>Would medical school admissions officers look down upon taking AP credit for certain college courses? In my situation, I received a passing score on the AP English Language, AP Biology, and AP Spanish Language exams.</p>
<p>Should I take the credit to place out of the corresponding classes at Rutgers University, or should I take them all? I personally feel it won't hurt taking the English Language and Spanish credit, but it would for Biology.</p>
<p>Thank you for your time and responses.</p>
<p>Not only look down upon but refuse to accept.</p>
<p>If you pass out of a class you need to take more to compensate - i.e. it's okay to use the bio to pass out of intro bio, but you then need to take more advanced levels of bio instead.</p>
<p>some medical schools let you test out of some or all of your Calculus requirement. Here's a website where it lists (alphabetically by state) the calculus requirements, and if you can test out, for most medical schools. Other that Math, medical schools really do frown on AP credit from what i've heard... </p>
<p>Check with your school. At my son's school the AP credit for Bio was for intro bio that was for non science majors. He wouldn't have taken those classes anyway. If that is the case, you might as well take the credit and have those hours, if you will be taking higher level bio classes anyway.</p>
<p>according to that website, it seems many medical schools are satisifed with AP Math credit or some do not even require math. Do you think I should just skip math at college? I did get a 5 on BC calc test.</p>
<p>So for the English, you'd recommend to take a more advanced or specific English course while others are taking the introductory level class? And same thing for Biology?</p>
<p>Depends on your school. Ask around. It's one or the other, though - you can't skip entirely.</p>
<p>Blue Elmo, some med school still require you to take a symester of math in college w/o AP credit (for example: Johns Hopkins) and still some wont accept AP credit at all. Gte what you can from your 5, and then take a lil more.... if you got a 5 on the AP test, you can handle another symester of math in college</p>
<p>Hey guys, here's a little list I found that's put out every year by the people that do the MSAR book:
Apparently, there are 125 medical schools in the United States (or, at least, that have specific requirements)</p>
<p>Here are the number of schools requiring at least a semester of the following subjects:
Physics: 118
Inorganic (General) Chemistry: 116
Organic Chemistry: 117
English: 80
Biology: 82
Biology/Zoology: 38
Calculus: 16
College Mathematics: 33
Behavioral Sciences: 10
Biochemistry: 12
Humanities: 14</p>
<p>Hope that helps a wee bit-- Cheers!</p>
<p>thanks billybobbyk, that's really helpful</p>