<p>This might be a stupid question, but do med school applications require you to list your AP scores and do they require you to send an official score report if it hasn't been sent to your college?</p>
<p>Also, when you send an official AP score report to college, how do the AP credits show up on the college transcript? Do they say something like "credit earned through AP exams"?</p>
<p>I went on several college visits of top schools and sat through their presentations. Most schools use your AP classes to estimate the rigor of your curriculum. They don’t NEED your AP scores with the application. But, if you do submit them they will look at them. You need to provide them at the time orientation, so that they can give you proper placement and/or credit.</p>
<p>I am sorry I completely missed your question. I thought you were asking regular college admissions. Some med schools require your AP scores if you are taking AP credit for pre-requisites. Some med-schools like Mount Sinai require them for certain programs like FlexMed. You have to use MSAR and the individual school web sites to figure that out at the time of application.</p>
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<li>Not all medical schools will accept AP credits in lieu of actual courses taken at college to fulfill pre-reqs. It’s important that you understand that. And not all med schools will accept AP credits for all pre-reqs. (For example, most will accept AP credit for Calc; some will accept AP credit for bio, chem or physics.) Some will accept AP credit only if it’s supplemented by additional coursework beyond the AP class equivalent.</li>
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<p>IOW, there’s no universal policy on the acceptance of AP credit. </p>
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<li>If a med school does accept AP credit, for AP results to be considered the credit must be included on your college transcript and must show it’s credit for a particular class. (e.g. AP Bio = 4 credits for BIOL 1001; not AP bio = 4 credits biology.)</li>
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<p>Again, there’s no universal policy on how a college treats AP scores. Each college will have its own policy.</p>
<p>As an example, D2’s school, as matter of policy, will not allow pre meds (regardless of major) to use AP Bio credit to fulfill course requirements. She received 4 credits of unassigned/general biology credit for her AP score. It counted towards number of credits for graduation, but not towards biology dept requirements. The math dept, however, readily allowed her to use AP Calc BC score to gain credit for MTH 200 and MTH 201.</p>
<p>Medical schools themselves will not ask for your AP score report. They will rely on your college’s acceptance and interpretation of it.</p>
<p>If your college does not show your AP class on your college transcript, your AP score or credit is not relevant to med schools. My D is at a school where they don’t consider Biology at all for credit and so the transcript has no trace of ever having done it.</p>
<p>Once your college lists your AP credit, then what wowmom lists above comes into play, i.e., what each med school will accept and what it should say.</p>
<p>wowmom - If someone has a credit for AP Physics on the transcript without a listing of the equivalent class, does it mean it won’t be acceptable?</p>
<p>A majority of schools DO accept AP credit for pre-requisites. However, most of them “strongly suggest” that you still take advanced courses in the same area in college. Some flat out refuse to accept AP credits. Rice university pre-health folks put together PDF doc with detailed info. You can Google it. Vanderbilt, BU, CA state schools and some others are prime examples of the ones that are pretty rigid about AP credits for pre-requisites.</p>
<p>Most schools that accept AP credit for pre-requisites require them to be on your college transcript. But there are some that require you to submit AP scores. Harvard is one of those, example. Here is what they say:</p>
<p>“When advanced placement credits used to satisfy portions of the chemistry, physics, or mathematics requirements noted above, scores from the AP examination must be submitted prior to matriculation. If these scores are not shown on the college transcript, an AP score report will be required before matriculation.”</p>
<p>As I mentioned Mount Sinai FlexMed program and other combined programs usually want all the things you need for a regular college admission: SAT/ACT, AP scores (at least by matriculation)</p>
<p>@ texaspg— It will depend on the particular medical school’s policies. (But I’d venture to say that 99.5% of allopathic schools will find that unacceptable.)</p>
<p>Here is a comprehensive list of medical schools and their AP credit policies put together by the good folks at Rice university:</p>
<p><a href=“Undergraduate Resources | Rice University”>Undergraduate Resources | Rice University; Credit - Allopathic Medicine.pdf</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your answers. </p>
<p>From what I understood, it will be much less complicated if I just don’t use any of my AP credits to satisfy med school prerequisites.</p>
<p>Kal123, since you mentioned mt Sinai flexmed multiple times, can you give an assesment of this new program, thanks.</p>
<p>Sinai FlexMed is similar to JHU FlexMed in the 90’s. It’s an early assurance program. You apply as a sophomore. No need to take MCAT, but need to maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5, once you are accepted. You still need to turn in AMCAS primary and Sinai secondary with fee (no need for essays) as a formality. </p>
<p>Sinai is a top 20 med school. For those who know that they want be doctors clearly, early assurance into Sinai is a hassle free way to enjoy the undergrad experience. </p>
<p>Application requires SAT scores, recommendation latters (from both college and high school), AP scores and the whole nine yards. They say that successful candidates have ACT 31-35 and SAT >1350.</p>
<p>I thought AP courses were in a slightly different category altogether. For instance, I thought SoM schools want the applicant to list all the APs taken and the scores received. Whether the schools will “accept” APs for credit is a whole different consideration. Afterall, listing any course you took at the college level needs to be listed on the application, right?</p>
<p>So isn’t this two separate considerations: whether to list them (yes, you have to) and whether they’ll accept them (depending on the school)?</p>
<p>AMCAS Instructions to Applicants 2014 </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf</a></p>
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<p>The instruction also state that AP score should not be sent to AMCAS and AMCAS will not use them to evaluate a transcript.</p>
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<p>It appears that unless an applicant has reported his scores to one or more of his undergrad colleges and has received credit for them, then AP scores/classs don’t have to reported. Nor are the scores for any AP class required to be listed. Only whether ot not a college has granted credit for the score.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I am thinking of applying to the Flexmed program at Mt Sinai in the fall and was looking for some tips. I am currently a Bio-Medical Engineering Major at GW. Right now im at a mid 3.3-3.4 and will hopefully be near a 3.5 by the end of the fall semester. I am in a summer undergrad program and have a bunch of leadership/club experiences. I just wanted to know what my potential chances are because I feel that I am at a disadvantage due to my lower GPA and major. (oh and the SAT was 1410/1600 I believe. Thank you!</p>
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