<p>I am a junior in high school and currently taking honors physics, I am getting an A in it and I like the course a lot. I plan to major in Biology when I go to college, I hope to get into medical school. I am planning my schedule for next year and so far this is what I plan to do: AP BIO, AP CHEM, AP statistics, pre cal, english IV, govt/economics, and computers class. Now the thing is that I could take AP PHYSICS B instead of AP stats, BUT, I think I would be overloading my self. What do you guys think? Should I take AP physics or wait and take it in college?.
Is not that I can't handle the physics, its challenging but not that hard, but the amount of work would be alot and I dont know if a will be able to actually learn somethng from it while taking the other sciences at the same time. I dont plan to skip those classes in college, I just want to be ready for them when I take them in college and when I take the MCAT.</p>
<p>MCAT physics is easy and shallow. I didn’t even take physics in high school and ended up taking what my college calls autotutorial physics (there are no formal lectures, you basically teach yourself) and did well on the physical sciences section.</p>
<p>I didn’t take Physics in high school and ended up majoring in Physics (and World Lit) at Cal. I was completely prepared for MCAT physics and would have been prepared for the MCAT with merely having taken the first year of the CAL physics series (albeit it was the honors series). Unless the MCATs have changed since '86, it is an extremely straightforward test. My husband, too, Stanford grad, took the regular, introductory series in Physics and is saying that he found it perfectly adequate preparation for the physics that the MCAT tested. We both got 15s (when the MCAT scores were out of 15; I think the scoring rubric has changed since then) on the Physics part. He was more diligent about reviewing for the MCATs then I, but we both feel that having done well in the first year of college-level physics was fine prep for the test.</p>
<p>yea, I’ve read on a different forum that you could basically write the MCAT physics and do decent just with high school physics (if your good at physics and you seem to be). So, I wouldn’t worry about AP physics, especially since you said you’d take it in college anyways. It won’t give you an advantage for the MCAT since I’ve read that it is very basic physics (but I read that you need to memorize some obscure formulas and such).</p>
<p>Thank you. So do you guys think I should just take AP chem, AP bio and stats and NOT AP physics?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/459760-mcat-really-difficult.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/459760-mcat-really-difficult.html</a></p>
<p>Read that thread. It’s short. But the main idea is that the material isn’t tough, its the people you are writing against and how high you need to score in relation to those people. As for taking APs, I guess its up to you. Depends on if you think you can handle it, if you think it will matter or if you will end up APing out of the intro. courses in university. </p>
<p>I personally don’t have AP at my school so I have no clue how demanding it is.</p>