<p>Ok, so for my prospective major, i have to take certain prerequisites in order to qualify for it. they are: BIOLOGY 162; PHYSICS 140,141 (or 125, 127), PHYSICS 240, 241 (or 126, 128); CHEM 210, 211, 215, 216; MATH 115, 116) with a GPA of 3.2 or higher. how the heck would i fit that in a freshman schedule, and which classes should i take first semester. Also, since i wanna take an english and hopefully a spanish class, could i fit those in to my first year schedule? thanks a lot. btw, i took ap bio and dual enrolled in microbiology, and i have taken ap chem, although i wanna redo in college cuz i forgot much of it and i need to remember it for the mcat. thanks a lot.</p>
<p>what is ur major?</p>
<p>regardless, u should use the AP credit. don't worry about not remembering stuff. it's not worth taking a class to relearn it, especially if it's a weeder course.</p>
<p>im majoring in cell and molecular biology and biomedical engineering, or so i hope(im accepted but im not attending right now). and although u make a good point about my ap chem crdits, what would i do for more advanced chem courses and the mcat?</p>
<p>I'm doing the same thing as you uofmhopeful, and I'm not too concerned about remembering the material for advanced courses. If I need to, I think I'll just look at a prep book when I need to relearn the AP material for courses and then of course just study for the mcat. I also do not suggest you retake a course if you don't need to. Just take orgo. Oh, and I'm talking about the five year bs/ms program through the cell mol bio department.</p>
<p>Use AP credits for basic chem, go straight to orgo.</p>
<p>If it's an option, you can look into doing calc I/II at a local community college over the summer, since that's usually a lot easier than doing it here.</p>
<p>Calling those classe prereqs is kind of misleading. Really you just have to have them completed by the time you graduate. Classes like Introductory Bio and Orgo are obviously going to be required before you take upper level classes. But for something like physics, you can put that off until junior/senior year if you want since it's not a prequisite to any classes you'd probably be taking later on.</p>
<p>ok thanks and im doing bc calc this year and hopefully will get a 5(i did on ab). that should knock off calc 1 and 2, and i may tae 3 and 4 later on in college.</p>
<p>Two things:</p>
<p>1) Is Chem 130 considered a "weeder" course at Mich? </p>
<p>2) I've heard from my advisor its bad to take major pre-reqs like calc, chem, bio at a community college. True?</p>
<p>From what I've heard, all chem classes up to orgo suck.</p>
<p>This kind of goes back to the mislabeling of "prerequisites". If it's something you need to take to qualify for higher level classes in your field (in this case, chem 210-211-215-216/bio 162), then you should be taking them at michigan. But if it's something like calculus, which is a requirement for the major, but not really prerequisite to anything you'll be doing in your field, you should be fine taking it at a community college. Keep in mind there's a 60 credit transfer limit, so if you have a lot of AP/dual enrollment credits coming in you might need to be careful.</p>
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<li><p>I would say take ur AP chem credit and run with it cuz all the intro classes here are made a lot more tougher in terms of exams cuz I got credit for intro chem and the stuff umich kids learned is the same stuff I learned in AP chem but when it came to the exams the questions were of AP difficulty and they were tricky so IMO it's def a not an easy class to breeze through as there are pre-med and engineers in there too as well. But if u work hard you'll be fine. Also I heard the lab component sucks hard here too.</p></li>
<li><p>I will say ur advisor is partially true in that as stated above u learn the intro stuff and concepts here more in depth and the exams here are tough as the intro classes are weeders. It would make sense to take them at a CC as it's cheaper and transfers over if they accept it as this is what I did. I have come to the realization however that in CC they only brushed over the concepts and didn't really go indepth that much as into the miniscule details as the exams were quite ez to me. I mean I had to study but not as hard as some of my friends who took the intro classes here I took over at CC. Hope this helps yo.</p></li>
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<p>If you can get out of chem lab, do it.</p>