Hi I will be majoring chemical engineering as pre-med next year. I took AP chem last year and scored a 5 on it, and for ChemE curriculum, the advisor told me that I can skip general chem but do I still have to take general chem in college for the medical school? I know medical schools do not accept AP credits for science classes, but one of the science adviser from the orientation told me that as long as I take higher chem classes, almost all medical schools except California med schools will accept that AP credit. Is that true? If that’s true, are the courses like transport phenomena, modern separation, applied chem, and process design (they are the ChemE courses I have to take) count as higher chem classes? Thank you!
you definitely do not need “gen chem” to satisfy your one year of inorganic chemistry requirement if you take a year of more advanced courses. The pre-med advisor at your school will know which courses will count. I imagine that ChemE courses would but he/she will know for sure.
The first sentence in your quoted text above is wrong. The majority of medical schools will accept AP chem credit (as long as your UG college puts this credit on your transcript) Check the list at the URI below for schools where you are likely to apply. Even the California schools are slowly changing their old policy of not accepting AP classes. Now most Cal medical schools do accept AP credit. For the schools that require an upper division class in addition to the AP Chem, you shouldn’t have any problem using your ChemE classes. If some medical school would not accept a ChemE class for this purpose, would you really want to go there?
http://oaa.blogs.rice.edu/files/2014/07/AP-Credit-Allopathic-Medicine-Summer-2014-FINAL.pdf