<p>Hello, I am a freshman student starting UCLA in the fall of 2012. I planning on being a pre-med student which comes with certain class requirements, but I didn't completely understand what they meant. I got a 5 on Biology, Chemistry, and all three physics AP exams , and I was wondering whether or not I had to take basic Biology, Physics, and Chemistry courses again. Can I take a more advanced physics class and count these as my premed requirements, or are medical schools looking strictly at the introductory chem, bio, and physics.</p>
<p>AP Scores do not count for medical schools. Good luck being Pre-med ( a lot of my friends quit the track after their first year because they couldnt maintain a 3.75 GPA). Only 120 or so will survive by the end of the four years to apply, and only about 65 of them will get into at least one medical school.</p>
<p>I know AP exams don’t apply to medical school requirements, but do more advanced levels of physics and biology apply to the category when the medical school’s requirement states you need a class in “Physics”.</p>
<p>These advanced classes would require prerequisites of lower division biology, chemistry, physics, etc and AP credit does not exempt you from any lower division science classes so it doesn’t matter if the upper divs count or not since you’ll have to take the lower division classes anyway.</p>
<p>I am not sure that is totally true. I have read somewhere that the upper level courses satisfy the core requirement. Norcalguy would know</p>
<p>pretty much what picklesandtwigs said. You’re going to have to take intro Bio, Chem, and Physics again. I wouldn’t be upset about it if I were you; they should be relatively easy classes for you, and that’ll help your GPA (which is of highest importance for med school). You wouldn’t want to rush into upper divs as a freshman.</p>