<p>At my school, the physics department is not very strong. The books seem to have been written by a child (they round the force of gravity to 10) and the teacher actually holds a geology degree. All in all, students do not gain much from this program, and I am reconsidering not taking it. Would this be detrimental to my application as a pre-med student or to a College of Science at a larger University? </p>
<p>Thanks for the insight!</p>
<p>You're going to have to take physics once you get to college. I don't see any point in you taking it now. If you were to get a bad grade, it certainly would hurt your AMCAS - not quite learning physics now probably won't have much impact on your college experience.</p>
<p>What importance do you think physics has on an app though, because many colleges say that you should have 1 year of physics?</p>
<p>I never took physics in hs.</p>
<p>Where'd you go? What was your intended major?</p>
<p>I went to Cornell. Majored in bio. Took algebra-based physics at Cornell. Aced in the Physical Sciences section of the MCAT. And now I've gotten into med school.</p>
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<p>My AP teacher (and my AP Physics book) did that too. I got a 4 on the exam.</p>
<p>yeah, we rounded to 10 (sometimes you have to because you don't have a calculator on the MC of the AP test). I got a 5, so I guess it's not a huge problem.</p>