<p>Hi
Im planning to take BSC2010(bio 1) and its lab, BSC2010L in spring term but I recently figured out that i have a credit for BSC2010L as letter grade of B from high school.</p>
<p>Should i retake it? i mean it is just a lab so i am not sure what to do. Please give me some advice.</p>
<p>If you are going to take a particular upper division bio class later, does that class have a corresponding lab component? Are you going to be a bio major so that you will take several upper division bio labs required by your major? If the answer to both of these two questions is no, I think it is better to take that lab. For medical school admission, AP credits do not count (for almost all medical schools at least.)</p>
<p>Does lab class work same as other regular lecture classes? I know that if i have a credit for bio1 i can just take bio2 and not worry about medical school admission but not sure about the lab class. If i am going to take the bio2 lab in the future, do you think it is okay to skip bio1 lab?</p>
<p>Every college may be different regarding how the prereq system works. So only students or academic advisers at your school would know exactly how this works. The prereqs for each course are usually listed in the course listings.</p>
<p>At my child’s school at least, the prereqs of any class usually refer to the lecture class only, excluding the lab, for some unknown reason. Also, the intro bio 2 is very different from the intro bio I (both the lecture part and the lab part), as the intro bio 2 is mostly about evolution, ecology, etc., which many premeds do not like to take. Some students postpone taking this class after MCAT, or skip it altogether. But the bio department will not allow its majors to skip it. This may be the only place where the AP credit could be useful because it allows the perspective bio major to place out of this intro bio II class and take other upper division biology lecture/lab instead. — BTW, I heard that it is often not very pleasant to be in any of these huge intro bio classes so it makes sense for some really well-prepared bio majors to skip them if they could persuade their academic adviser to allow them to skip one or both of them.</p>