<p>Impossible to answer. How hard is your high school? How much natural talent do you have? Which English courses will you take? How hard will the professor grade? How good will your college classmates be? Which university will you go to? Etc.</p>
<p>Do bear in mind that all your classmates will have done HS English, and not all of them will be getting A's.</p>
<p>good point bdm, cuz all HS r different</p>
<p>for the sciences, do u know the difference b/t the "10" course (ie Bio Sci 10, chem 10, physics 10) and the "A" courses (chem2A, phys 1A, bio 1A, etc.)?</p>
<p>You're talking about a system where I didn't go to school, so I haven't the slightest idea.</p>
<p>which classes did u take for premed?</p>
<p>Required premedical courses are a year of biology with lab, a year of chemistry with lab, a year of organic chemistry with lab, a year of math (calculus or higher), a year of English, a year of physics with lab.</p>
<p>sry, i meant which classes u took in premed</p>
<p>My "premed" courses are the requirements to enter medical school. They are listed above. Since that seems unsatisfactory to you, are you asking for a complete list of every course I did while I was in college? Any courses I took in the sciences? Anything which had even remote relevance to the MCAT?</p>
<p>I think he's asking for course numbers with the idea that these are somehow standardized from college to college...at least I think that's what he's asking. I don't know. I'm kind of brain dead from having no patients in the hospital and having to study for my peds shelf exam on thursday. How did I manage to study like this everyday for 6 weeks in prep for step 1?</p>
<p>bdm, did u take intro classes or higher level ones?</p>
<p>I entered with 9 AP Placements.</p>
<p>I took General Chemistry in one semester. A Chemistry research seminar and biochemistry fulfilled the remaining requirements.</p>
<p>I skipped to Calc III and then used Statistics for the remainder.</p>
<p>I did not use any of the other AP placements (English, History, Statistics.)</p>
<p>is stat required as part of the math component?
and do we have to take social sciences like history?</p>
<p>1.) For a couple of schools, yes. UCLA features prominently in this list.</p>
<p>2.) Post #25 right here outlines the necessary courses. You can see that social sciences are clearly not part of that list.</p>
<p>do med schools care if u fulfill their reqs w/ only intro classes, or do they look more favorably upon taking the honors sequences?
i'm asking this b/c colleges don't weigh courses like HS</p>
<p>1.) Many schools don't offer honors courses. Mine certainly didn't. There's no GPA weighting of any kind that happens.</p>
<p>2.) You seem to be confusing honors with advanced. Maybe that's how they do it at your school. I don't know. An honors course covers roughly the same material as a non-honors course. An advanced course comes AFTER an introductory course, not instead of an introductory course.</p>
<p>Advanced coursework of some kind is a must in order to graduate from college. Advanced coursework in the sciences -- at least, moderately advanced -- is very valuable as well.</p>
<p>to clarify my post, i'm thinking of an example of like say using AP credits to transfer out of something like genchem, into the "honors or higher" sequence of chem</p>
<p>^ (10 chars)</p>
<p>What about post #34 was unclear to you?</p>
<p>if i'm gonna be a bio science major, i would have to take the upper science courses right?
and it's ok to leave some GEs and/or premed reqs till senior yr right? i was thinking that since bio majors have to take statistics, would it be a good idea to leave that for senior yr?</p>
<p>1.) Yes, obviously. That's what a "major" means.
2.) Yup. Not too many of the premed reqs, though. Just a couple.
3.) It's a neutral idea. Not good, not bad. Math is a premed req, so don't take more than one or two of those senior year.</p>
<p>do med schools care about your senior yr GPA and ECs?
is statistics any help on the MCATs?</p>