<p>I have a lot of questions, so please bear with me :)</p>
<p>I am tentative about pre-med. I might do research. I do not care if the courses that I take will rule me out of a few universities, but I do mind if it is more than that (say 3-5).</p>
<li><p>I have 5 in Eng AP so that is 3 credits. From what I see, a LOT of schools require two semester of english despite any credits you have - and even more so than math/calc. True? I as assuming that under any circumstances I should take 1 year of English.</p></li>
<li><p>I have 5 in Calc BC. Assuming that the lower-teir schools have less requirements (and probably do not even require calc/math) and the top schools have more, how many schools are there that needs math and does not let 5 on Calc BC fulfill the math requirement?</p></li>
<li><p>A lot of med schools require one year of biology with one year of lab. If I want to skip intro bio, the only bio course with lab I can see is genetics and microbiology, which are both one semester long. If I take both, with lab, would that fulfill the requirement?</p></li>
<li><p>If I skip intro bio and take a lot of upper-level courses, would med schools look unfavorably upon me?</p></li>
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<p>I didn't even realize you were a Cornellian. Calc at Cornell is an easy A. Nothing to be scared of.</p>
<p>There are definitely more bio lab courses than just genetics or microbio. You don't want to take genetics at Cornell unless you have to. BioBM440, BioNB 491, BioAP 319, BioAP 416, or even BioAP 413 (this is a dry lab but no one has to know ;)) There are plenty more.</p>
<p>I have a question, also. My D's strongly considering something in the medical area. Now, she's a junior this year, taking AP chem (already did AP Bio frosh yr - 5, and APWH -- 5), APUSH, AP Lang, and AP art history. She'll do AP calc, AP Lit, and probably AP Psych (not sure about AP physics). We have encouraged her to do the AP science classes because that means she's getting 2 years of science in school (except Bio, where she only had AP) in order to show academic rigor for app. purposes, but also to be better prepared for the science going into college. She doesn't want to use the AP science credit for "testing-out" purpses, but rather to improve her chances of doing well in her college science classes. She doesn't have to use the AP credit, does she? She wants to take all the required courses to maximize her understanding and college GPA. Thanks for answering ...</p>
<p>I agree with bdm. Same thing happened to me except, my university has calculus II split into a year for those who are not that good in math. I decided to take that sequence and then I will take stats in the future because I need it for my major. I do have AP Calculus AB credit.</p>
And some schools will heartily applaud her taking the intro bio and chem sequences if she is a science major (like my D's school and many other privates). </p>
<p>Some may look at this cynically and say it is a way for the privates to keep kids there , paying, all four years, or conversely a way for state schools to move the cattle through the chutes as quickly as possible. Both may have some truth in them.;)</p>
<p>At my D's school the attitude is-"We want you to learn science our way to make sure there are zero holes in your knowledge and we can move along to upper levels with a superior underpinning of the basics". As D's AP teacher hated certain areas of the AP curriculum he refused to assign them or test over them. The areas he concentrated on she knew very well. The area he didn't assign - not so good. But regardless of how well she did in AP testing (she's a great bubbler) she feels that her intro college courses were superior by a very large margin and feels quite prepared going into Histology and Topics in Biology (taught by St. Jude researchers!!) as a lowly soph.</p>