<p>Do most med schools accept AP CREDIT for calculus (i'm in BC btw). Like does anyone know a site w/ a list of those who accept and those who dont? </p>
<p>I'm pretty sure i'll get a 4 or 5, and if i use the credit, i can skip 2 quarters of calc and enroll in the 3rd quarter....and "complete" a year of calculus.
I'm just scared that some med schools wont accept the AP CREDIT, and i'll be screwed in the long run......</p>
<p>Should i retake calc next yr in college or use my AP cred</p>
<p>The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) publishes a book called Medical School Admission Requirements and it is updated annually. It is known as "the bible of medical school guides" -- you can buy it from the AAMC website. I'm pretty sure, but not 100% sure the information will be there.</p>
<p>You will have to check out each school. Some schools don't even list a math requirement. I checked a few med school requirements from their websites. The ones that had calculus requirements took AP credit.</p>
<p>Another person to ask is the Preprofessional Advisor at your college. You might be able to get the answer from him or her beore you make out your fall schedule.</p>
<p>IMHO, it's nuts to encourage students to take AP classes and not accept them at a higher level of education.</p>
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<p>But what makes you think that every high school that teaches, say AP biology, is able to prepare those in the class for med school? It is one thing to take an AP class to help meet a general education requirement for college, or to help one to begin classes in college at a higher level. It is another to take an AP biology class in say, 11th or 12th grade, and have it meet a biology requirement for med school.</p>
<p>Statistics in college would better to take for prep for med school (not AP stat). And besides, even if the AP class technically meets the math requirement, the medical school admissions committee will look at your application, and notice that you used an AP course in high schoo to meet your math requirement. It could work against you at that level, esp if you used it to meet the requirement instead of using it to go to the next level of math that you took after it in undergrad.</p>
<p>I'd like to give an example: UCLA does require 2 semesters/3 quarters of college-level math (calc, statistics, etc.) and AP credits cannot be used.</p>
<p>I believe that for most med schools, you don't have to do a full year, but I called UCLA because it is my first choice and that's the unfortunate answer I got. My 5 on the AP Calc BC exam placed me into a higher level math here, but it doesn't mean that I am exempt from taking more math :(</p>
<p>My specific gripe about calculus and med school is that calculus is not tested in the math portion of the MCAT. I agree that a fundamental solid understanding of higher math is necessary for med school -- you'd be amazed how many times the phrase "dp/dt" comes up in the discussion of physiologic function. But to force a student who gets a 5 on BC calc to take something like multivariable calculus or linear algebra is, to me, nuts because neither one is necessary. An MD/PhD program, well, that's a little different.</p>
<p>As for AP Bio or Chem, I agree. My daughter wants to go to med school and got a 7 on her International Baccalaureate Bio HL exam. Her credit went to another biology elective and did not count as the core bio for he major.</p>
<p>BTW, having graduated from med school myself, I consider myself to be in an excellent position to be highly opinionated about the whole thing.</p>
<p>1.) LWMD is right that there's no calc on the MCAT, but, at least in recent years, there has been no Math section on the MCAT. Math is relevant -- especially to the general chemistry components -- but it is not explicitly tested.</p>
<p>2.) I personally find multivariable very useful for helping think about functions and rates of change, but I agree that it has no obvious relevance for a premedical curriculum.</p>