<p>Hey, I'm a freshman going to CALS and majoring in molecular/cellular biology. I got a 5 on the bio AP in 11th grade which means that I'm exempted from intro courses. What do people exempted from intro bio usually take? I don't seem to be qualified yet to take other required courses for my major (eg. organic chem) but I would really like to take something related to my major, and preferably something related to bio since I didn't take any bio courses last year.</p>
<p>Also just for general information my other classes are going to be chem 2150/2160, math 1110/1120, and the writing seminar.</p>
<p>cornell bio website recommends that even with a 5 that you take the first semester of intro bio lecture/lab to make sure you are comfortable with cornell bio or whatnot. so i did that and ended up taking the second semester as well, despite my original plans of taking no intro bio whatsoever.</p>
<p>you could take bioee 2780 evolutionary bio, although supposedly either its not open to freshmen 1st semester or you need permission - not sure. you could also take one of the 1-credit bio seminars intended for people like you with AP 5, or you could just take no bio at all.</p>
<p>Out of the general bio requirements, evol. bio is probably the easiest. You can also take something like Bio 290 microbio (which should fulfill part of your molec/cell bio requirements). I’m only suggesting bio 290 because it was probably the easiest bio course I had at Cornell.</p>
<p>I would agree with norcalguy. Microbio was one of the easiest and most enjoyable science classes I took at Cornell. If you go that route, I also suggest you take microbio lab.</p>