<p>you CAN take chem 6a, 6b, 6c if you want. but you're not getting credit for any of them.</p>
<p>you WILL get credit if you take 6bh, 6ch.</p>
<p>some med schools do require a full year of gchem, meaning that seniors will have to go back and enroll themselves alongside freshmen. but not every med school does this, and not every premed goes back to re-take gchem.</p>
<p>is there any point in taking a course if you don't get credit for it?</p>
<p>and am i correct in saying that the course won't factor into my gpa?</p>
<p>thnx.</p>
<p>is there a point? well it depends -- if you need a class to help you get into med school, then yes.</p>
<p>and no, no effect on GPA whatsoever if you're taking a class you already passed out of.</p>
<p>if you're so desperate to take gchem (and maybe even score yourself a few As while at it), how about just NOT sending in the collegeboard score report?</p>
<p>meh, well i kinda already did that when i took the ap tests and it asked to send scores to colleges. is there any way to "withdraw" certain scores once they've been sent?</p>
<p>if they've been sent, no. (unless you're willing the jump the mailman, and that's probably not a good idea)</p>
<p>if you already took them and haven't sent them, yes, you can selectively cancel scores off your record.</p>
<p>and to avoid further confusion: operate under the assumption that UCSD has your AP scores floating around and will eventually post them to your academic record. you're effectively barred from taking 6abc for credit or a grade. 6bh/ch are NOT MCAT prep -- they're more like theoretical principles applied to gchem. if you're premed and have a slew of other things on your plate, just get started with the 140A series and physics. take the MCAT the summer after sophomore year. with those scores, start searching for possible med schools. of the schools, some will let you petition in AP credit for the gchem requirement, some won't. decide from there and use some emptier quarter in junior/senior year to make up 6abc if you have to. live happily ever after.</p>
<p>my thoughts are that you want to hit the ground running -- you'll be tempted to ditch class if you're not learning anything.</p>
<p>is organic chemistry difficult to take during the first few quarters of one's college career (i scored a 5 on the ap chem test, if that helps in assessing)?</p>
<p>well ... you already know that a "5" automatically places you into the organic chem series, ochem is the next step for anyone who finishes gchem, and since you've already finished gchem ....?</p>
<p>it's not hard.</p>
<p>What about for math20a??</p>
<p>what <em>about</em> math 20a? we've been talking about chem on this forum ...?</p>
<p>how to survive the first 2-3 weeks of 140a: know electron dot structures, electronegativity principles and resonance. if you know that, great, you're good to go for half of the first midterm.</p>
<p>next five weeks: random stuff, sn2/sn1/e1/e2 reactions and the differences
last week or 2: 50 reactions for alcohols = you just got f'ed for the final (overexaggerating here)</p>
<p>in reality, if you got a 5 on the AP test, you shouldn't worry about being at a disadvantage for 140a. i got a 5, retook the chem6 series, and i don't find that it helped all too much for ochem. i should have just jumped into ochem freshman year and gotten it over with.</p>
<p>ugh last night i had a horrid dream that i actually hadn't completed the 140 series. horrible way to wake up in the middle of the summer. :( too bad i still have the 143a lab to plow through in the fall. any tips, astrina? or old lab reports :P</p>
<p>old lab reports are 3000 miles away from me, but 143A (i took 143AM, now 143AH) was probably one of the easiest reports ever ... since you're not designing anything fancy, it's pretty much how well you can rehash the protocol and science into your own words. i found that regurgitating lecture principles and maybe doing 30 min of background research was a good way to go. :)</p>
<p>that class is such a technique lab; writing lab reports is a complete waste of time. i'd rather be graded on how well i do the experiments -- and if mr. butterfingers drops every other reagent bottle and stabs himself with TLC spotters ... well, that's his problem.</p>
<p>for the mcat, which preps you better--the chem 6 series or the ochem series?</p>
<p>um. you need to take both to score high on the mcat.</p>
<p>(sorry, but that made me laugh pretty hard -- sunnyday9630, you've got some research to do!)</p>
<p>perhaps i should rephrase the question. i obviously KNOW that both are required to do well on the exam. in all fairness, the question was put poorly, but what i meant is does it make sense to take ochem first year and 6 series after or vice versa (given that second year material would probably retained better) if i qualify for both and seeing that ochem doesn't require much application of the general chem series material?</p>
<p>Chem 6 series is a prereq for ochem... You don't have much of a choice in the matter...</p>
<p>bump tenchar
:)</p>
<p>Bump!
I would like to know if anyone has had experience with Abramson or Baouendi for Math20A or any math class?</p>
<p>bump for math 20C</p>
<p>oh shizzzz baouendi is teaching 20a again?? take him!! he's the cutest little old french guy ever...he wears purple shoelaces to class and asks students to answer questions, always clapping for the students. definitely my favorite math professor yet.</p>