<p>Has anyone taken inorganic/organic chem in college? If so, do you feel that inorganic chem prepared you for organic or was there any correlation between the two?<br>
I am trying to decide whether or not I should take it since I have AP Credit for inorganic chem and would love to not have to take it. At the same time, if it would prepare me for organic, I HAVE to take it...
Any input would be lovely!</p>
<p>I suggest you take it, even if you know all the material you should just take it for the good grade. Pretty much the only things you use from general chem in organic is naming conventions, orbitals and acid/base stuff....most of which is taught during second semester.</p>
<p>You have credit for gen chem, not inorganic. True inorganic would make you cry in difficulty, or so my professor has said.</p>
<p>Puppy, You might check with your school. My son's school does not allow a student to take a course for credit if they scored high enough for credit on an AP exam.</p>
<p>Might be true, but I know that a few medical schools do not count AP credits in chemistry as fulfilling their requirements. One of my good friends found this out as a 2nd semester sophomore and ended up having to take gen chem as a junior.</p>
<p>Even if you can't take it for credit you may be able to take it pass/no pass and garner the same preparation.</p>
<p>Yup, some medical schools don't accept AP credits. I was a TA for General Chemistry and my fellow TA had to retake the class she was TAing for!! She tried petitioning but they didn't let her. If you're a TA for a class, doesn't that show you understand the material well enough? Kind of ridiculous in my opinion.</p>
<p>inorganic and ortanic are quite different
i mean the very basic concepts are same (like electronegativity and MO diagrams) but organic chemistry has a whole set of problems one just has to know how to do -- simply have to practice doing it a bit, even if you did inorganic chem -- within chemistry departments, the professors are actually specialized into organic and inorganic subdivisions (and a few others) because both these chemistries are like little worlds of their own so you can't often work with both, you specialize in one or the other</p>
<p>Schools don't accept AP Credit but will accept further advancement (i.e. biochem).</p>