<p>I'm going to be a college freshman in the fall, and i'm planning to take the pre med path, i'm sure people have asked this question before but should i forfeit my ap bio credit? --planning to be a neural science major</p>
<p>I seem to be mentioning this a lot, but personally, I would forfeit it. Having AP credit gives you an edge in the class since you've got a good idea of what you're about to learn; that'll give you a better chance at an A to set up a good gpa for you, and plus you'll actually do a college level lab for that course, as opposed to a high school environment attempting to mimic collegiate environments. If anything, it'll benefit you more then just jumping into the next course.</p>
<p>However...if you got like a 5 on the exam, and think you know it like the back of your hand, then go ahead and take credit for the AP and take upper level biology to prove your proficiency.</p>
<p>i got a 4 10ch</p>
<p>I say drop the bio credit and take it in college. You'll already have that edge so it shouldn't be that difficult, plus, it should lead to an easy A, so there's a 4.0 for you freshman year if you can pull it off.</p>
<p>Having taken an AP class does not by any means make a class "an easy A."</p>
<p>But it certainly is an easier A.</p>
<p>Well, I never really stated any hard cause-effect relationship with AP meaning easy A. I said "should" and "if you can pull it off", both of which are conditional and contingent upon effort put in. Regardless, having taken a class, or at least a similar class, does give you an advantage over others who see the material for the first time. It's simply just the mere exposure that will make it easier.</p>
<p>However...their pretty high mark on the AP exam, although not a 5 to prove the most proficiency by the exam, does indicate that they do have a pretty good grasp on the material, and having it taught to you a second time around should further improve their grasp of the material.</p>
<p>Easier than the class would be otherwise, usually. Easier than the class you would take instead... that's up for grabs.</p>
<p>The bio AP is a joke and you should take the intro course.</p>
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<p>Well, there you go then...that shows that the first scenario is something you can better judge the probability of, as opposed to the second one which is more blind chances. Anyways, don't we make a lot of decisions based off of probabilities of success that we can actually foresee than something that's "up for grabs"?</p>
<p>In any case, my suggestion still stands, take the class at a college with real lab experience.</p>
<p>take the ap and drop the "pre med" major. get an english or history major. as a member of several major med schools admissions committee, i can tell you we like students that know more than just science.</p>
<p>how hard is it to take an upper level bio course as a freshmen?</p>
<p>Talk to people at your school and see how the intro bio class is. If it is like math at my school, then the first few levels will be very tough with curves that will kill you and the upper level classes will have nicer curves and the professors will not try to kill you. If intro bio isn't created to weed out as many people as possible, and the upper level classes greatly build on what you learn there, retake the class and get a firmer foundation.</p>
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take the ap and drop the "pre med" major. get an english or history major. as a member of several major med schools admissions committee, i can tell you we like students that know more than just science.
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<p>The OP said pre-med PATH not pre-mad MAJOR. And the OP can major in whatever interests him, science or otherwise.</p>
<p>I have both IB HL and AP credit for Bio, and I still plan on taking Intro to Bio. The question is... when should I take it? Right now I plan on taking Gen. Chem, Calc I, and English this fall of my freshmen year. I want to have a fourth class, but I don't know whether to choose to take Intro to Bio or Intro to Psych. What do you guys suggest? Would Gen. Chem and Intro to Bio really be an overkill?</p>
<p>psych.
give yourself a break, its your first semester of freshman year.</p>
<p>I'd recommend Psych as well. Give yourself some time to transition and test the waters.</p>
<p>it really depends on what your biology is going to be like. for me--I was glad to reject my AP Biology credit for first semester because I actually "learned" stuff. It had a basis in Cell and Molecular Biology. I was very happy to accept my AP credit for the second semester, however, because it was all that ecology, evolulution, taxonomy stuff that we will most definately not ever need.</p>
<p>how is that possible</p>
<p>at my school, if you had a 4 or 5 you automatically got credit for semester one and semester two of Biology. It was ultimately up to you to choose what you wanted to do. The first week of classes made me decide what I wanted to do with the credit. I must admit, however, that I originally chose to stick with second semester of General Biology. After discovering shortly after that it was useless material, I accepted my credit for it. I had to pay the penalty however by accepting a Q indicating that I dropped the course without completion, but also that I had AP credit for the course.</p>