I am looking to a major in biology on a premed track at a top college, and I am specifically looking at Cornell. I am taking the hardest possible schedule at my school and am performing very well (nearly all As, my weighted GPA is higher than other applicants from my school accepted into Cornell/other ivies), however, my school doesn’t start with honors biology as a freshmen since it requires an earth science credit, so we have to take a general science course freshman year. We take honors bio sophomore year instead. AP Bio at my school is impossible to take without honors bio (not literally impossible but me and 5 other kids who tried to take AP Bio without honors bio left the class, it doesn’t start from scratch and move fast like bio classes at other schools, it just skips everything covered in Honors Bio with a 2 day review), so my options for next year are AP Bio or AP Chem. To graduate with a credit in chem, bio, and physics I need to take AP Chem junior year and AP physics senior year. This doesn’t leave room for AP Bio, which I am concerned will hurt my application when I apply to top premed colleges. Also I got a 95 in Honors Biology anyways, not sure if that info is relevant.
I think you are fine for admissions. You are taking two AP sciences.
For pre-med, you would want to take College Biology anyway as med schools don’t accept AP credits for Biology.
Your GC will send a school profile that explains how the courses work and the requirements.
Other freshmen taking Bio may have taken AP Bio…make sure to get a tutor if you are having any problems.
Yes, AP Chem is fine.