<p>When people say that medical schools do not accept AP credit, do they mean of classes AP Spanish, AP US history, AP government, AP psychology, or is it just specifically for the AP science classes? Does taking the non-science related APs i mentioned help with premed/medical school with saving money/useful knowledge?</p>
<p>Non-science AP’s were the most useful for my D. She did NOT need to take college history, her hardest sabject and took one semester of English instead of 2, and that one semester was complete waste of her time, learned nothing. However, many places would no let you graduate without at least one semester of Foreign language. Although it could have been the case at D’s UG. She placed higher than the highest score listed on placement test (everybody had to take placement in Math and Foreign Language before restering for first emester at college). That reasulted in her placing into 3rd year of college Spanish, which was one of the D’s best UG classes. That also allowed her to place into intermideate level of Medical Spanish that she is taking while in Med. School. D. was advised not to skip first Bio despite of 5 in AP Bio. Good that she listened as this firt college Bio went thru AP material in first 2 weeks, then they moved on. Besides AP English, D. also used AP Calc which alloed her to take only one semester of college Stats and be done with math.</p>
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<p>If people say that, then they are confused or got bad info somewhere. The fact is that almost all (with the notable exception of California State schools) schools will accept AP credit (with or without added provisions). There are exceptions so you should check the policy of the schools where you plan to apply.</p>
<p>They will only accept things your undergrad accepts which means that your transcript must indicate course credit for your APs. If all you’re getting is placement, then that’s all your getting: placement, not course credit. Placement means nothing other than that you got to take a more advanced course earlier.</p>
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Some of the top privates will not give college credit for AP classes. They will allow the student to place into a higher class or skip an intro requirement for certain classes but that is it. The best thing to do is check the website of the college you are interested in and see how the handle AP classes.</p>
<p>D2’s top 30 private doesn’t allow Bio majors to use AP for bio, chem or English credit or advanced standing. Other departments will, but not the bio dept.</p>
<p>Moral: not only do you need to check the school’s policy w/r/t AP credits, but often the departmental policy as well.</p>
<p>i know that as of 2015, the MCAT will have a psychology section, but does AP psychology save any money in premed?</p>
<p>And also is it better to take AP stats or Ap psychology adding to the fact that I’ll be taking AP calc BC and the med school I wish to go to has no math requirement?</p>
<p>Personally, I would take AP Psychology. Even though it’s harder than stats you would probably be able to start with a higher level Psych class in college and avoid Intro to Psychology. Your AP Calc would serve to place you in a higher math class so stats would be redundant.</p>
<p>P.S. Even if the med school you hope to go to doesn’t require math at least 33 schools do. I would makes yourself as marketable as possible to ALL schools and take at least a semester of calculus in college.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.drexel.edu/scdc/assets/forms/medicalschools-math.pdf[/url]”>http://www.drexel.edu/scdc/assets/forms/medicalschools-math.pdf</a></p>
<p>Most of the medical schools accept Calculus credits awarded by a college based upon a student’s AP scores. Nonetheless, it is true that quite a few medical schools in California do not. In general, it is really a good idea to take care of AP Calc AB and BC in HS.</p>
<p>It may not be a bad idea to take AP Econ to get the Econ credits. The Econ course in some colleges may be a weed-out course.</p>
<p>But Psych is NOT Med. School requirement anyway. You do not need Psych at all, unless you are personally interested or your major requires it.</p>
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<p>This is probably a very good idea. The new MCAT (2015) is now a fact with possible changes in pre-med requirements to match. Psychology has been added. The changes will come as soon as the 2013 exam which will no longer have the writing section and will include an optional biochem/psych/soc section.</p>
<p>I kind of disagree with stats being redundant. Stats seems to be more useful for pre-meds than calcs. However, if you had stats in HS, that probably would be enough.</p>
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My point was both Calculus and Stats are part of Quantitative Reasoning and Psychology is Social Science. Some colleges allow AP credit to meet distribution requirements so from that standpoint Stats would be redundant.</p>
<p>I’ve heard psychology is relatively easy to self study, is there any benefit in taking the class when i can self study the topic, and take ap statistics as a class instead?</p>
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I guess it depends on what other classes you are taking and where you plan on applying. The top schools look to see if you have taken as rigorous a schedule as possible so I would take every AP class possible if you want to apply to a top school. My son took 4 AP classes his senior year along with a 3rd year language and Civics (required to graduate). He had both Psych and Stats in addition to Calc and Eng Lit.</p>
<p>plumazul,</p>
<p>“The changes will come as soon as the 2013 exam which will no longer have the writing section and will include an optional biochem/psych/soc section.”</p>
<p>I thought that the MCAT change would take place starting 2015. Would you please provide the source for the above info?</p>
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<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/</a></p>
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I do not understand this: Unless the test takers are not informed of the section which is a trial one and is unscored, who would volunteer to answer the questions on the unscored trial sections when the test is already longer than the typical test at school? As a preparation (just the endurance part, not the content itself) for the even more grueling STEP-1 test in med school?</p>
<p>On the current MCAT test, many test takers likely do not pay as much attention to the writing section as that on other sections that really count (count much more at least).</p>
<p>Test-takers who take the unscored, voluntary portion are being offered monetary compensation for their time.</p>
<p>WOWM,</p>
<p>Thanks for posting it.</p>
<p>I am sure that DS1 would be delighted to take the unscored section under no pressure to help AAMC collect the data knowing that there is no need to prepare for the writing sample section.</p>