<p>A simple yes or no would suffice.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Yes, but not all of them do. Generally, med schools that accept APs also accept IBs.</p>
<p>yes and no is the right answer. make sure you know the specifics for the schools you're applying to. our premed advisor always uses IB or AP physics as a good example of credit that med schools do not like and in some cases will not accept. more specifically, we all know you need a year of physics just for your basic requirements. filling this requirement with IB or AP physics and then not taking any further physics is bad. apparently some med schools will not even consider this physics credit, and those that do for some reason specifically frown up doing your physics that way. like i said, i don't know exactly why this is. that's just what our premed advisor has been saying for the past 3 years and always specifically names physics. he always said even for chem and bio requirements that it's bad to finish it through IB/AP and then not take any upperlevel bio/chem courses in college. he's all about stressing how important it is for premeds to take upperlevel sciences (especially bio and chem) if you're a nonscience major pre-med. anyone else know more on this?</p>
<p>I'm not really sure because if I were to take the IB Biology test and get a score of 5 or higher, then I could skip intro level courses. </p>
<p>Is it bad if I WANT to take those courses in high school?</p>
<p>Skipping intro classes and taking higher-level classes is fine, if you feel prepared. Skipping intro classes and not replacing them is a bad idea.</p>
<p>Biology is probably the most flexible, just because you probably want to take higher-level classes like Genetics, Cell & Molec, etc. (whatever your school offers). You should definitely only use the credits if you feel like you've been taught well and been prepared sufficiently. </p>
<p>I had a great teacher in high school, got a 6 on the Bio exam, and ended up taking the intro courses anyway. I did feel like taking the courses in college solidified my understanding of the areas covered. I used my 5 on English to exempt some intro English courses, but took a higher level writing class and will be taking another one next semester to satisfy the "year of English at college" rule some schools have. Used my History credits too, but I don't think medical schools care about those. SL exams didn't give me any credits, which sucks.</p>
<p>yea, listen to what bluedevilmike said, except he summed it up in one sentence versus my paragraph haha.</p>
<p>i'm pretty much in the same boat as steeler. I had a real good IB bio teacher, got a 6 on the HL test (I think maybe even a 7 on the actual test but my labs were like a 4), BUT took the first year of intro bio credit. two of my other friends were in the same boat as me but they decided not to take the credit. our premed advisor urges all bio students to not take any bio credit and take the intro like steeler. personally, if you feel you learned the material extremely well from IB, I don't see the point in wasting a year on those intro courses. the intro at my school is made incredibly hard as well to weed out the nonseriosu students. they learn all the basic intro bio, which I knew well already from IB, but then include a bunch of straight memorization to scare ppl away from premed. the intro course used to be taught by the main premed advisor, so he did this on purpose haha. he stopped teaching it this year tho so I guess it'd be easier. if I were you, I'd found out more specifically about the intro course you wouldn't or would be taking and then decide. I can tell you from firsthand experience that IB definitely covers all the basics you need, though! keep in mind I'm a bio major anyways, though, so I have upper level bios past IB. </p>
<p>(btw, I didn't take those intro courses while the other bio majors at my school did, yet I still know the basics better than most of them! like I said, I had a really good IB teacher. my two friends who had the same IB teacher but decided to take the intro credits anyways regret it. they said they wasted their time because we learned a lot of it in more depth than in IB. they said there was definitely some stuff they had to learn that we never covered in IB, but this wasn't material you needed to know for upper bio classes or the MCAT. this "new stuff" was just straight memorization thrown into the course to make it harder and scare away students. all shortterm memory and since then long gone.)</p>
<p>I also did the samething as Steeler with English and will be taking a higher level English class next semester. so it's your call but you should be fine without those intros. also, like I said from before, definitely do not do this with HL physics, though! unless you took upper level physics courses I suppose, but who would want to do that?? haha</p>