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<p>If you get AP Credits at college then do you have to take the class again or can you skip it and go to another higher class?</p>
<p>Also since you need chem w/ lab and bio w/ lab for medical school what if your college doesn't have labs past the freshman year which you have gotten by AP already?</p>
<p>Son used AP to get out of general requirements. His advisor strongly suggested he retake the courses in his major even with 5's.</p>
<p>Son got credit for class and labs in chem with 5 on AP. I'd still ask the advisor though.</p>
<p>Yes, ask your advisor. At my son's school, if you score high enough on AP test to receive credit, you may not retake class for credit.</p>
<p>However you do it -
1. you still need to be very strong in those early courses in order to do well on the MCAT. </p>
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<li>whatever year's worth of biology/two years worth of chem /and year's worth of physics you take MUST have labs with them to count.</li>
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<p>and, as you probably know already, AP credit does NOT count towards these med school requirements. </p>
<p>Getting good premed advisement at your school is, of course, strongly recommended.</p>
<p>At UCLA, you HAVE to take credit in the english and the math you take. You can can see this as a good thing or a bad thing depending on how fast you wanna graduate and the difficulty of courses you want to take. Remember, it is advisable to take at least 2 quarters (1 semester) of math and a full year of english. Because I passed out of our easy english class, Im stuck taking three quarters of hard english, while others only have to take two.</p>