<p>I'm an entering freshman at Middlebury College for the class of 2016, and I'd like to fulfill the pre-med requirements because I'm entertaining Psychiatry. I have AP credit that will allow me to place out of an introductory Physics class, General Chemistry 1 and 2, Calculus 1 and Psychology 1. </p>
<p>Will I have to take these introductory classes? What exactly are the pre-med course requirements?</p>
<p>Note that I am NOT going to be a science major. I can't stand the hard sciences.</p>
<p>Well if you are from California and plan on applying to MS’s in your state you may need to take all those courses anyway. I believe Stanford is the only UC school that accepts AP credit for MS requirements. Current requirements (they are changing for the 2015 MCAT) are:</p>
<p>1 year General Chemistry with lab
1 year Organic Chemistry with lab
1 year Biology with lab
1 year Physics with lab</p>
<p>Some schools also require 1 or 2 semesters of Calculus/Statistics and some also require English/Intensive Writing. There are also a few that require or recommend Biochemistry.</p>
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<p>What Kdog said is correct. Although you do not have to major in science, you have to compete well against most science majors in the lower-division science classes in order to prove to med schools you are very competent in science prereq classes. Having good scores in AP tests (AP 5) does not prove anything in the eyes of med school adcoms, as most of adcoms think the pool of test takers are not good enough. Many high schoolers are not aware of this.</p>
<p>A part of premed game is to pool together those who are among the best in taking science tests, and then let them compete with each other head-to-head. Only those among the best of the best are not weeded out in the process.</p>
<p>There is a chance that choosing Middlebury rather than Cal (if you are from California) may benefit you, as long as you do not insist that you want to attend a med school in California after 4 years. But this is just my guess.</p>
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<p>You know that you’ll have to take plenty of sciences in med school, right? Just taking a look at a college at random: SUNY Upstate requires that you take molecular and cellular principles of medicine (which includes molecular bio, genetics, immunology, and nutrition), human anatomy, neuroscience, microscopy anatomy, mammalian physiology, microbiology, and pharmacology in the first two years.</p>
<p>Unless by hard sciences you just meant physics and possibly quantitative chemistry?</p>
<p>By hard sciences, I DID mean physics and quantitative chemistry.</p>
<p>The very first post of this sticky thread:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214382-coursework.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/214382-coursework.html</a></p>
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<p>I can’t speak to what was true in the summer of 2006 (I was only 12 years old 
) but today in the summer of 2012, most medical schools do accept AP credit. However, since the OP has stated that “I can’t stand the hard sciences” he/she may have special needs. It is important to differentiate between AP “credit” and “advanced placement”. It is your UG institution that makes this determination. The OP used both terms so I don’t know what exactly he/she meant. If you actually received credit then perhaps you should use it. If you just received advanced placement then perhaps you should just retake the course (since you “can’t stand” it)</p>
<p>Since the OP is attending Middlebury…</p>
<p>Middlebury’s AP credit chart is here:
[AP</a> Credit | Middlebury](<a href=“Registration | Middlebury”>Registration | Middlebury)</p>
<p>Note that Middlebury’s math and chemistry departments disallow or discourage repeating AP credit.
<a href=“Requirements | Middlebury College”>Requirements | Middlebury College;
<a href=“Resources | Middlebury College”>Resources | Middlebury College;