<p>okay, I have a question about the math requirement at UCLA. Should I take the 3 series or 31/32 series. I'm calc BC right now, atticipating a 5. what should I do?</p>
<p>It seems the 3 series is the easier one.</p>
<p>3 series may have easier material but you will be competing with a lot of kids just like you: premed, strong math (calc) background, competitive. in the higher series, you'll be learning harder material, have some (but not as many) premeds, and I assume that the competition will be slightly less. If i were you, i'd skip out of 31A, finish the rest of the 31 series and take a quarter of stats</p>
<p>skipping classes using AP credit sounds nice, but doesn't UCLA med school not accept AP credit?</p>
<p>Your path would mean I only take 2/3 of a year of math.</p>
<p>^ I've been hearing the same on the UCLA forum. Kinda scary if you ask me, but let's hope they change the policy (check out <a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/undergrad/apcredit.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.math.ucla.edu/undergrad/apcredit.html</a>) They specifically say that they are changing the guidlines for incoming freshmen</p>
<p>The vast majority of medical schools do not accept AP credit. They will, however, allow you to take more advanced classes if you wish.</p>
<p>this AP policy only applies to needed courses for med school right?</p>
<p>Medical schools - there are exceptions - do not accept AP credit.</p>
<p>This applies to all classes, however, of course, if a course is not needed for med school, then it doesn't matter whether med schools accept it or not.</p>
<p>(If med schools don't care if you take History, and they refuse to accept your History AP, what does it matter?)</p>
<p>wait...so the whole AP thing...so let's say you take AP chem and AP physics in HS and skip out of physics 1 and general chem and go into ochem and physics 2....do med schools not take that?? </p>
<p>does that mean if u skip general chem and go into ochem...u are required to take another higher level chem to make up for it?</p>
<p>There are some medical schools who will, and even otherwise their rules are usually not set in stone.</p>
<p>But yes, the rules do state that if you skip general chem, they ask you to take an extra year of chemistry at the end (usually biochemistry). With physics, I'm not 100% sure - they might be more relaxed about it, but I think officially you are supposed to take an extra semester of higher-level physics.</p>
<p>I've read the policies as saying you would have to take a higher level chem class to make up for the AP credit you skipped out on. That's just how I read them. I personally had no science AP credits. But I did take an extra english class just in case b/c I had 4's on both AP english exams (20th century fiction with most lax teacher ever...6.5/15 still equalled a B-, probably explained why he was an english prof and not in math).</p>
<p>If that's the case, then it almost works to your benefit to simply take the intro course "again" ace the **** out of it, and have that be a solid frickin' A++ on your transcript (also handy to go to a prof for a letter of rec and say "hey, I aced your class").
I mean, I took Calc in HS, got a C+ in it, then retook it in college for the A-, which if I would have ever studied, I would have gotten an A+ easy, but I rarely even did the homework. Definately freed up some time (although that was semester was by far my lowest GPA in college until my 2nd semester senior year).</p>