<p>I'm planning on majoring in Biology and going in the pre-med route, however I wanted to know if some of my credits will transfer or not. I'm currently an in-state junior going into my senior year, and I'm currently taking two minimesters of physics to get them over with so I won't have to take it when I get into college. Is this a bad/good choice? Also, I was wondering if I should take biology AP next year because I heard taking accepting credit would be a bad idea since it might lower GPA, and med schools want to see that intro class. The same applies for chemistry. I will have credits for statistics, english, us history, psychology, calculus, world history and human geography by the time I graduate...which will transfer and which won't? Please give me some feedback because I really want to go to UT Austin! Thanks!</p>
<p>And if it puts anything into perspective, I’m ranked 8 out of ~700 students and my ec include: varsity tennis, social officer of national honor society, treasurer of simple sounds club, secretary for interact club, vice president of science olympiad and science national honor society, kumon tutor for 2 years, private tutor for 2 years, hundreds of volunteer hours, and I plan on applying for president of the math national honor society at my school in the fall semester. </p>
<p>You mean AP credits? UT will take many of them, you have to decide if it makes sense to use them. Credits can make you a sophomore sooner, which may help with class selection, which would be good. </p>
<p>For GPA protection you might not want to claim all your credits. I can’t speak to your situation, but know that engineers generally don’t claim their Physics credits. Engineering Physics is too different and they feel like it is better to just take the engineering version. Math and Physics majors do take the advanced standing if they feel like they have a solid background. My kid claimed his English credits to not have to take English and his Calc and Physics to start at a more advanced level. </p>