<p>I will be applying to colleges, mostly the UCs this year, and the science majors are what I'm interested in. I'm interested in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry, but the problem is that my school did not offer an AP chemistry. I took honors chemistry and I felt that was very insufficient towards my chemistry knowledge. Would you have a harder time trying to major in biochem without sufficient background knowledge from an AP class in high school? By the way how impossible is this major and will it kill your social trying to maintain a high GPA?</p>
<p>just take chem 1 in college. I took AP chem this year, and all though i did learn alot, i still intend to take chem 1 in college just to brush up on it. You should be fine</p>
<p>For biochemistry you only need general chemistry and organic chemistry, right?</p>
<p>My goodness, do not think that because you didn't take AP chem you will have trouble being a biochemistry major. Good grief. AP chem makes first year general chemistry a little bit easier than honors chem would make it. There is not going to be that much of a difference. (If you were a liberal arts major, a good AP chem score might well let you get credit for general chemistry, but I think a biochem major would be advised to take a year of college chemistry. No matter how challenging people say it is, AP chemistry is not the same as college chemistry.)</p>
<p>not trying to be a smartass here but biochemistry without the chemistry would be, well...</p>
<p>just Biology...</p>
<p>have a nice day :)</p>