how many credit hours of gen chem needed

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<p>Okay so I've been looking this up everywhere and most places if not all have said 1 year of gen chem w/ lab.</p>

<p>Does that mean two semesters of gen chem or would one semester of gen chem + lab worth 5 credit hours suffice? I have a friend telling me that we only need one semester and I'm trying to verify this as it doesn't seem right?</p>

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<p>No, one semester of gen chem + lab would not suffice, generally speaking.</p>

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<p>1 year + lab = 2 semesters + labs for each semester. One semester of gen chem + lab won’t cut it. Your buddy’s incorrect as far as I’ve ever known.</p>

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<p>Alright thanks guys. I knew something was off. Well he’s in for a rude awakening. He goes to U of M and says his counselor told him that so he’s breaking his chem sequence to do bio.</p>

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<p>Do you mean University of Michigan when you say “U of M”?</p>

<p>If so, it has the following recommendation:</p>

<p>[Required</a> Courses](<a href=“http://www.lsa.umich.edu/advising/academicplanning/prehealth/requiredcourses]Required”>http://www.lsa.umich.edu/advising/academicplanning/prehealth/requiredcourses)</p>

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<p>Also, from their medical school website:</p>

<p>The following are the premedical coursework requirements for matriculation into the University of Michigan Medical School. Grades below “C” will not be accepted in any of the following required courses:</p>

<pre><code>1 year of Inorganic Chemistry with laboratory experience
1 year of Organic Chemistry with laboratory experience
1 semester (or quarter) of Biochemistry
1 year of Biology with laboratory experience
1 year of Physics with laboratory experience
2 semesters (3 quarters) of intensive writing courses
6 semesters (9 quarters) of additional non-science courses
</code></pre>

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<li>1 year is typically defined as 2 semesters or 3 quarters</li>
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<p>Yeah, one year of gen. chem, one year of organic chem, one year of physics, and one year of biology (all with labs) is pretty much the minimum at all medical schools. +/- English (one or two semesters) and Biochem (usually just one semester if required at all).</p>

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<p>Web site of any Med. School will have the requirement which might be slightly different from school to school, but gen chem requirement would be the same.</p>

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<p>@chlcfc,

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<p>It depends on the program at your UG. My school also has a 1 genchem + 2 orgo program, but instead of requiring pchem, they have added a quant semester w/lab that is taken after orgo. If this is what your UG offers, then that’s what you will do as a premed.</p>

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<p>Berkeley also has several chemistry sequences for pre-meds (depending on major requirements, since chemistry and biology majors take different sequences for their majors):
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepPrereq.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepPrereq.stm&lt;/a&gt;
One of the more common ones is slightly unusual:
<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepChem.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Medical/PrepChem.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>My guess is that all UGs do, at least, my D’s state public had different sequences, but you could not take the first class at higher level than your placement math score allowed you. Engineers took different Chem. than others, you could take the one for engineers if you desired so and if your math score was enough.</p>