<p>Is there a need for me to hold on to these pre-med prerequisite textbooks to study for the MCAT (and/or for future reference in upper level courses)?</p>
<p>MCAT: definitely not
Upper level courses: maybe. I personally like to hoard books but odds are whatever books you need for your upper level courses will contain adequate background/there is always wikipedia. I have looked up stuff in old books (i even used some undergrad books to look up a couple things in med school) but i could have managed without them.</p>
<p>I think when DS went to med school, he did not keep most of the textbooks for prerequisite. Likely biochem and some upper-level bio that he thought would be medicine related, e.g., immuno.</p>
<p>I think D2 kept her OChem textbook to study for the MCAT, but never actually used it.</p>
<p>I’ve found Campbell Biology to be quite helpful for higher level biology courses. Sometimes when what I’m reading something and it just seems like a bunch of words I go back to Campbell to get the big picture and put it all in perspective.</p>