<p>So I'm enrolled in 7 APs right now. I going on the pre-med track, and I heard that med schools don't accept AP credits for their pre-reqs. I'm only taking the Calculus, Macroeconomics, and U.S. Gov't exams. I'm not sure if I should take Physics or AP Lit, since those are pre-req courses. (I already have an AP lang credit anyways, and most colleges only accept either Lang or Lit, but one of the colleges I'm looking at needs two english credits for the major. Should I just take the second credit in that college to satisfy the pre-req?) Also, I'm a senior, so I don't think colleges care if I don't take the tests for all the classes I'm taking.</p>
<p>The only reason to take APs is so you don’t have to take the class in college. If your college doesn’t accept them for prereqs then no point taking.</p>
<p>If you are sure that you cannot use the credit, then you may not want to bother taking the test, unless your high school requires you to take the test. Although if you are not sure, take the test; it is easier to discard unusable credit than to wish you had taken the test for credit.</p>
<p>Medical schools generally do not accept AP credit for pre-med courses, although they may accept substituting more advanced courses; check with the medical schools in question if you want to do this.</p>
<p>Note that you do not need to major in biology to do pre-med; you can take the pre-med courses with any major of your choice.</p>
<p>Unless you know for a fact where you are going and have throughly read through the colleges AP Policy, you should take all or at least some of the tests</p>
<p>It shows that you challenge yourself the most .</p>
<p>Well, you could take higher level courses in physics and English. Then your AP credits could act as prerequisites for those courses. If you don’t want to do that, then I guess taking the AP tests would be pointless.</p>
<p>But is literature a prereq for medical schools? I think most medical schools require expository writing, right? Wouldn’t that be more equivalent to AP language?</p>