<p>Ok, so I've been reading a ton of threads about course selection and about med school requirements so don't tell me to go back and search older threads. But I just want to clarify by asking a few yes and no questions so it shouldn't take too much of your time. If you can post more of an explanation, I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>1.) I have AP credit for Calc I. Now, after reading some threads I've come to the understanding that if I take Calc II in my freshman year, any med school will take the AP credit for Calc I and thus this would mean that I have fulfilled the requirement for 1 year of calculus. Correct?</p>
<p>2a.) I have AP credit for Gen Bio 1 & 2. So I was thinking about taking genetics and some other biology elective in my freshman year.
I'm pretty sure that NONE of the med schools require GENERAL bio, right? </p>
<p>2b.)They just require 1 year of ANY biology class w/ labs correct? </p>
<p>2c.)So taking two semester long bio classes would suffice(not general bio)? </p>
<p>2d.)And I would have to take the lab associated with those two classes in order to fulfill the requirement correct? </p>
<p>2e.) Do these two semesters of biology need to be consecutive?</p>
<p>ok, I admit that question 2 is long. but thanks in advance.</p>
<p>1.) No.
2a.) True.
2b.) True.
2c.) Assuming they have labs, true.
2d.) Yes.
2e.) No.</p>
<p>1) For most med schools this will work. However, a few med schools will not accept AP credit for any requirement (for example, UCLA requires 1 yr. math and accepts no AP credits)</p>
<p>2) Taking two upper div bio courses is okay as long as they both have labs.</p>
<p>I read this written by you BDM in the Courses thread.</p>
<p>"I believe I pored over Bryn Mawr's list and found that Calc II plus stats or Calc III plus stats should cover everybody, since any school that explicitly requires two semesters of calculus specifically accepted AP Credit, at least for math."</p>
<p>In case you need to know, I'm planning on taking Calc II and then Stat and I have credit for Calc I. But you say "No", that I will not satisfy the 1 year of calc requirement. Do you care to explain why please? Did you say "No" because not ALL med school accept AP credit?</p>
<p>Thank you both by the way.</p>
<p>Norcal, in addition to UCLA, what other med schools off the top of your head do not accept AP credit for math? or could you direct me to a website that lists all the schools that do not accept AP math credit? thank you.</p>
<p>im pretty sure it's "A year of Calculus or other advanced math classes, including Statistics"</p>
<p>Calc II + stats would be okay for UCLA (you didn't mention taking stats in your first post). I don't know the specific requirements of most med schools. Like I said, AP credit for Calc I plus Calc II at a university should be okay for most schools. I mention UCLA because it's a top 10 med school that does not give preference to in-state residents (therefore UCLA is quite relevant for a lot of top applicants).</p>
<p>Mentioning stats would have changed my answer.</p>
<p>The AP area of med school admissions is a minefield. D has CalcBC credit and will take stats. She has one college writing course and two juco/dualcredit Brit Lit courses and two courses of APLit credit (one of which was for the same freshman writing seminar. Her UG just plucked that course out of thin air. ). This gets screwy for both "one year of English" and "one year of Writing" . Some schools' webmasters make it real easy to find your yes/no answer. Some are related to de Sade.</p>
<p>This makes her safe at all but 4 schools she's presently interested in on her working list. She will have to e-mail those 4.</p>
<p>There are schools that take AP Credit for math (but few take AP credit for any of the sciences). That's not the issue. The issue is that very few do, and since you have to apply to such a broad swath of schools, you're best served by taking a semester of calc (I, II or III) and stats. </p>
<p>The same thing is true of AP English courses - the hit and miss nature of accepting AP Credit means it's just simpler to take college courses in English or literature.</p>
<p>Well I just didn't want into the problem where I would take Calc II and Stat and then apply to a school that required TWO semesters of Calc ONLY that didn't take ap credits for math.</p>
<p>BRM, I've found several that do take AP Credit for math (or have no requirement for math at all). In fact, like I said - only 4 of my D's working list of 20 something schools would NOT accept what she has already taken. And a couple of those 4 "no" answers are very iffy and worth an e-mail. </p>
<p>D sees no reason to take Calc II (and she won't take Calc III) when she self studied BC for a 5. Her high school doesn't offer the course so she just borrowed a book from from her math mentor and learned it herself. </p>
<p>And this is the kid who refused to take SAT Subject Tests although some of her favorite schools required them. Her comment? We'll just pick another school. Which she did. I was pulling out my hair. I have no doubt she will pull something similar here.</p>
<p>I agree with your strategy. But I'm not the one that gets to make the call. I advise, she decides. It's been that way at my house for a loooong time.</p>
<p>The only way I see her caving is if she falls in love with a school that requires those classes.</p>
<p>When I visit the website of some med schools it says that they require 1 year of general biology w/labs. Sometimes under that it says that upper level biology courses w/labs can be substituted; however, sometimes it doesn't specially say that. Does that mean they ONLY require general biology w/ labs or can I assume that they will accept an upper level bio classes w/ labs?</p>
<p>Do you think that med schools will look down on not taking a year of general bio w/lab even if I do really well in the upper level bio courses? Are there med school that definitely want to see general biology taken?</p>
<p>ip, I haven't seen any that would care. There may be some that wouldn't accept upper level courses but I can't imagine there would be many.</p>