<p>Hello,</p>
<p>For Medical School, I know they essentially require Gen Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Biology, English, and Calculus. From these classes, is it possible to get English and Calculus out of the way via AP English Lang/Lit and Calculus BC?</p>
<p>Alongside these, would taking Physics C make any sense? I know Physics isn't exactly the most integral part of Med. School, so would they accept credit or expect me to retake it in college anyway? </p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>from what i’ve learned, you can use ap credit for calculus bc for medical school admissions, but nothing else. you’ll still have to take physics, and mcat physics doesn’t use calculus like ap physics c does, so i would only take physics c if you have another reason.</p>
<p>Hmm, so that means the credit derived from Physics C wouldn’t count towards Pre-Med?</p>
<p>Interesting. Thank you for the assistance :)</p>
<p>You can get the credits as long as your school list the college courses and the credits associated with them. That said, you should be careful about taking credits for bio, chem, and phys simply because the upper level courses could be tough depending upon your professors. Plus, they would be good review courses for MCAT. Pre-med forum has a lot of discussions on this topic.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, you may be better to use AP Econ, foreign Language, PSY to meet your Gen ed requirements.</p>
<p>Well, with that in mind, I guess it’s goodbye to Physics C this year. </p>
<p>Would replacing it with Environmental Science offer any benefit, or would that just be a waste of a test? How about Physics B?</p>
<p>Most med schools do not except ap Physics B or C, but many will except (4-5) on ap bio And Chem.</p>
<p>You can’t use any AP Scores for pre reqs, unless u take higher level bio, chem, ochem instead. Only Stats/Calc take AP Credit which IMO isn’t worth it since they can give u a gpa bump</p>
<p>So, among these AP classes I’ve taken/will take, which would medical school/college advisers accept?</p>
<p>Chemistry
Biology
Calculus BC
Statistics
US Government
Comparative Government
English Language
English Literature
US History
European History
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics</p>
<p>Would Psychology, Human Geography, or Environmental Science be useful to take?</p>
<p>Bump, anyone?</p>
<p>It depends on the medical school. (You can search medical school web sites, or check some of the threads in the pre-med forum.)</p>
<p>Pre-meds who want to keep their medical school options open should assume that if they skip introductory courses with AP credit, they need to substitute a more advanced course in place of the skipped course (e.g. if skipping a freshman chemistry course, add an additional advanced chemistry course). Many pre-meds retake their AP credit, but find that the grading curve is not as easy as they initially think, due to all of the other pre-meds doing the same thing.</p>
<p>Remember that AP credit policy at your college may be completely different from what medical schools specify.</p>
<p>The weed out courses also worry me, which is why I considered Physics and such. I spoke with a doctor recently and he claims taking advanced courses in college made Med School easy for him.</p>