<p>I will be a bio major pre-med next year and I pretty much planned to take the "normal" freshman bio courseload until I called today and got my AP scores. I thought for sure I would get 2s on them, but surprisingly I didn't. Now I don't know what to do. </p>
<p>I read on here before that some people recommend skipping intro bio,but others do not. I'm concerned that will look bad when applying to med school. Should I take 1 semester and then decide from there? I don't know what to do.</p>
<p>Also, I can skip first semester calculus with my calc ab score. Is this advisable? Or, once again will this look bad to medical schools?</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, I really don't know what to do!</p>
<p>I'm basically in the exact same situation and was wondering the same thing. I was planning to not take intro bio and possibly take a biology seminar instead (1 credit), as Cornell encourages those with AP credit to take one. As for math, I plan on using my AP credit, although I, too, would like to know if this will look bad to medical schools.</p>
<p>i wouldnt skip the first semester courses, especially math. AP calc DOES NOT equally translate into college calc (or cornell calc for that matter).</p>
<p>they have some pretty good reading on this at the bio website. they have a (rather long) PDF document where you are guided by a fruit fly called buzzy who tells you to relax. I thought it was cute. it is here, as the first link: Cornell</a> Biology :: Advice for First-Year Students
the rest of that page should be a big help for any people who haven't checked it out yet.</p>
<p>I got a 5 on AP bio junior year, and I have very good retention of the material, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to take the standard biology lecture next year. no offense to my excellent teacher, but I want to learn it at Cornell.
I was planning on using the calc AP for credit, but I am not dead-set on it. I'll wait and see about that one with advising. my school only offered me the Calculus AB exam and to be honest I have little concept of the difference between AB and BC and how they match up with college courses.</p>
<p>if you're gonna take the ap bio credit...do take another year of "advanced bio" to make up for that...</p>
<p>the purpose of AP CREDIT is to be able to have advanced placement...once you take care of orgo,physics,etc...take a more advanced class in biology...probably something you'd want to focus on in med school (i.e. virulogy)</p>
<p>I'm kind of in the same predicament, but I've already got a couple emails from my student advisor telling me not to use my ap bio credit and take introduction to bio instead only because medical schools like to see grades for the required courses.</p>
<p>I dunno about for pre-med students, but my friend who is going to be a sophomore at Cornell told me that intro bio was a piece of cake, and a waste of time if you got credit from AP Bio.</p>
<p>Just my two bits. If you got a 4/5 I'd think you would take an advanced biology instead of an intro biology. I'm sure a medical school can extrapolate that if you get an A in Advanced Biology, you would probably have gotten an A in Intro Bio.</p>
<p>"I got a 5 on AP bio junior year, and I have very good retention of the material, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to take the standard biology lecture next year. no offense to my excellent teacher, but I want to learn it at Cornell."</p>
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