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Pre-Med & Medical School High School Student Topics
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<p>I'm going to be a junior and I'm taking AP US History, and AP Spanish. Senior year I plan on taking AP Calc, AP Biology, AP Political Science and AP Economics. </p>

<p>Do you think I should take AP Physics or Chem? Will it help me for pre-med in college? Both Physics and Chem are really hard at my school, and I managed to get A's in Chemistry my sophmore year, but I don't feel very comfortable with the subject, because of lack of a great teacher. My A's were the result of a lot of group study sessions and mostly self study and great test curves. So should I risk lowering my GPA with AP Chem?</p>

<p>Also I'm taking physics this year, so I don't know how hard AP Physics will be, but I heard that's it's so hard that there is only one AP class, and I go to a school of over 3,000 students. So should I just not bother with it, and take it as a pre-med student?</p>

<p>I was also thinking of taking Chemistry and Physics over the summer after my senior year at a community college, just to refamiliarlize myself with the subjects and get a headstart at the college level. Should I just do that instead of stressing myself out senior year with 6 AP's?</p>

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<p>I would not stress out myself with 6 APs.....(found out the hard way). Go ahead and take AP chem.</p>

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<p>AP Chem if you don't want to stress out. AP Physics if you're a science geek like me :D</p>

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<p>What do you think of just skipping the AP's and taking Chemistry and Physics at the local CC and transfering that credit? It would be less stressfull because I would take it over the summer.</p>

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<p>If you decide to take community college classes remember that you should try to get A's because, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, every college class you ever take has to be put down on your medical school applications, even if that community college class was taken in high school.</p>

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<p>Does anyone have experience with CC classes? Is it harder/the same/easier to acheive an A in CC classes than in the AP's in highschool?</p>

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<p>its really easy to achieve an A in community classes. I took Pre Calc in order to skip it and go to AP Calc . I got an A. But when I took the Pre Calc exam for my school I totally didn't know what I was talking about. In cc in Pre Calc class they basically taught Algebra 2 half the time...so u really don't learn much from the CC.</p>

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<p>Do you think it's still worth taking Chemistry/Physics in a cc?</p>

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<p>It's better than the option of not taking them at all. You could just take one cc class over the summer and one less AP during the school year. A cc class will generally be less intense than a hs class (unless your hs has major grade inflation), but taking a large number of AP classes during the school year will also be hard because you'll be constantly trying to keep up w/' your hw and your AP studying. Summer has more time to learn a topic (though more distractions and sunny days that will probably keep you from studying anything too in-depth anyway. </p>

<p>Basically, a cc class will lighten your course load & give you time to focus on a lesser number of APs.</p>