<p>Hey guys. Haven't posted here in forever, but i ending up picking ucsd.
Anyways, </p>
<p>I have to take general chemistry honors because I got waived from the normal classes through my chem AP score. </p>
<p>Question is: should I just take the AP credit and wait till next quarter and enroll in chem6b (non-honors) or should I take that honors course. </p>
<p>*I'm not too sure if I'm right, but I think that UC med. schools try not to take AP scores and would rather have me take a class over again?</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure i can pull off at least a B- in that honors class, but i'm just wondering what others would do in my situation. Please least pros and cons.</p>
<p>*Yeah, i know the social scene here isn't great at all, but hey I'll get around. lol.</p>
<p>How can you take the AP credit and still enroll in the non-honors course? At my school, you either get AP credit, in which case you would have to take honors gen chem, or you forfeit your AP credit and take the normal gen chem course.</p>
<p>pepz3, I was in the exact same situation as you last year...</p>
<p>I ended up taking the Chem6ah-6ch series (even though I was exempt from 6a and 6b). In my honest opinion, I was having an easier time in the honors series than most of my friends in the non-honors series. If you wanna skip 6ah altogether, I know some people who got AP credit and just started off in 6bh winter quarter. I don't know the whole deal with med school and chemistry AP credits though...</p>
<p>The cons of the situation I guess are having to take an extra class (since you're already exempt from 6a) and a faster-paced class. Other than that, I'd recommend going honors (I was also very pleased with Prof. Hoeger and Cohen, if they're teaching this year)</p>
<p>I also got exempt from taking Chem 6A at UCSD because of AP scores. Since med schools dont accept AP credit, would it be better for me to take Chem 6A for no credit, or should I take 6AH instead? Also, what makes Honors harder?</p>
<p>I was in sort of a similar situation, but I had the choice of disregarding my 5 in AP chem credit and taking either Gen Chem I+II or Honors Gen Chem I+II. I decided to take Honors. It was harder in that we covered more material than the regular class and it was assumed that we already had a strong foundation of knowledge in chemistry (ie, we basically covered much of AP chem in the first lecture or two). We then went into more depth with most concepts.</p>
<p>HOWEVER... the curve/grading in honors was much, much nicer than in the regular non-honors sections.</p>
<p>If you take a course for no credit, it won't be... well, credited. So that's out. Either take honors or take the next course in sequence -- p-chem or biochem.</p>
<p>like COLLEGE!, I also took the honors chem series at ucsd. It really wasn't that bad, I got good grades in the class even though I hadn't taken AP chem. As long as you put in the effort and you're willing to learn chemistry at a more theoretical level, I definitely think the honors series is worth it.<br>
I guess what made it "harder" was that the test questions were not "plug and chug" type questions; just knowing the formula and how to apply it in basic, straightforward situations usually isn't enough. Instead you have to know how to apply various principles to problems you may have never encountered before, though if you do the homework and do your best to understand the material this is not an impossible task. And as GoldShadow said, the curve is often very generous. :)</p>