Is it more important for a high school student planning to go into pre-med to take at least one year of bio, chem, physics, OR 2 years of chem and bio each if possible?
I am in the process of picking classes for my junior year in high school, and I have the option to either take AP Chemistry or AP Physics 1.
If I already took Honors Chemistry sophomore year and Honors Bio freshman year, should I take AP Chem junior year and AP Bio senior year?
Or should I take AP Physics 1 junior year and AP Bio senior year?
In the long term, it makes absolutely no difference; however, taking college-level physics without having a high school course makes learning physics harder than it needs to be.
@pitt2021 Neither of my daughters’ high schools required students to take regular physics before enrolling in an AP Phys class. Both took AP Phys C without a prior physics class. Both did reasonably well both in the class and on the AP exam. (For AP Phys C, having completed at least a semester of calc was much more important than prior physics exposure.)