<p>Sophomore D met with a pre-med advisor who gave her all kinds of grief for not taking intro bio courses. This for a physics major with jr standing (due to AP), who will be working in a biophysics lab this summer, and may do an honors thesis there if things work out. As an MD/PHD in an academic center, I am acutely aware of the applications of technology to medicine, and I would be surprised if a hard-science student is passed over because they did not take the lab that goes with the intro genetics course. But maybe the admissions process is that inflexible?</p>
<p>2 semesters of a bio course doesn’t have to be the intro bio1 and 2, even though it generally what people take. She will have to take two higher level bio course (genetics, cell biology, microbiology, immunology, mammalian physiology, etc) to complete the 2 semester requirement.</p>
<p>The upper level courses don’t have labs.</p>
<p>lol… no man that university is so not “science”… only rarely do big univ’s not offer labs for micro bio, genetics cell bio…</p>
<p>well if she already has the credits for intro bio, just take the labs… not the theory part…</p>
<p>First off, these are requirements prior to matriculation, not application. Thus, if you apply your junior year of college and don’t take biology until your senior year, it doesn’t matter. If your daughter completes a senior thesis in biophysics I think this would definitely count towards a year of lab credit for biology.</p>