<p>For the pre-med requirements do all the science classes have to have a lab with them? On the thread about this it said only biology has to have a lab? Also should you finish some requirements in community college(if the CC is a pretty good one) if you can or wait until college?</p>
<p>All sciences must have a lab. </p>
<p>Most say to do the majority (if not all) of your premeds at a four year institution. You might get away with taking one of them at the CC and then transferring. Your grades in these classes are very important. Do your best. There is advantange to starting your premeds right away (because most students want to take their MCAT by the end of junior year)</p>
<p>Also, remember that you are also preparing to take the MCAT which will cover these topics (from the science classes) - your GPA and MCAT are the most imporant measures for being accepted to medical school (along with volunteering, medical experience and research).</p>
<p>What happens if you don't take the lab for one of the sciences? Then what happens? Please Reply.</p>
<p>I can't say for sure, but since it is a REQUIREMENT, I'd say that you don't have the necessary classes to be admitted. Considering that 1/2 of all premeds who apply to medical school don't get admitted anywhere, I would think that you wouldn't want to give the admission committees an excuse to make you one of them.</p>
<p>Lab requirements tend to vary from med school to med school. Check the websites for the ones you're interested in.</p>
<p>Let's straighten one thing out: you need a year of lab courses in BCP - after that, you're okay with taking science courses without a lab. For example, I was a bio sci minor and my cell structure and function course did not have a lab...but other bio courses did. Likewise I took a one hour chemistry seminar that had no lab. I took 2 semesters of biochem, but neither had a required lab (there was an optional biochem lab). So every science course does not have to have a lab, but the overwhelming majority of med schools require 1 year with labs in bio, organic, gen chem, and physics...</p>
<p>Pearl is right, if you don't meet the requirements, then a school simply drops you. It's not a matter of even not being admitted, but being dropped early in the process alltogether.</p>
<p>Think of it this way: If 1000 people apply for 100 spots, they aren't going interview all 1000 people. The first cut is going to narrow down spots for interviews - and the easiest way to make an initial cut is to get rid of the people who haven't met the requirements, there are no tough decisions, no complaints, nothing, b/c those people didn't meet the minimum standards. It's an easy way to go about narrowing a group.</p>
<p>Why would you even ask a question like this though? What reason do you have to try and circumvent the system (b/c that's what it sounds like you are trying to do)?</p>
<p>i skipped out of gen chem at my school and i am now enrolled in organic chemistry I. the lab course for organic chemistry is a one semester (3 s.h.) lab and must be taken with organic chemistry II next semester. is this ok, or do i need one full year of a lab course?</p>
<p>If that is the only lab course offered, then there is nothing you can do. Given that it is 3 semester hours, it sounds pretty rigorous - most lab courses are only one or two hours from my own experience and the various places I've heard about.</p>
<p>If you are not going to take gen chem, then you'll need to take some sort of more advanced chemistry courses beyond organic. Depending on the med school, biochem may work (but there are some schools, like mine, that require biochem anyways, so it wouldn't work). You should probably check with your pre-med advisor, as well as with one or two schools that you are most likely to apply to and see what they advise you to do.</p>
<p>Most med schools say that you need "~8 hours of Organic with lab" at my school that meant a 3 hours for Ochem I and II, and then an hour lab attached to each, for a total of 8 hours.</p>
<p>well in that case i should be fine because i'll have 3 hours of organic chem per semester and 1 lab for 3 sh, which puts me at 9 hours total. i guess i can take biochemistry and maybe another chemistry class if necessary.</p>