<p>I am currently a freshman Chemical Engineering major where I was able to use AP credit to place out of Gen Chem. Sophomore year I'll be taking Orgo 1 and 2. So what happens if I decide to become pre-med? What happens to that Chemistry requirement? Do I still have to take chemistry?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you be taking lots of advanced chemistry and chemical engineering courses anyway as a chemical engineering major?</p>
<p>OP. Are you suggesting that if you “become pre-med” your degree plan will change from Chem E to something else? </p>
<p>Anyway, the rule that applies to most (but not all, there’s one Cali school that I know requires Gen Chem) medical schools : Supplement your Gen Chem AP credits with a year of higher level Chem and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I would stay as a ChemE major but just with hopes of medical school afterwards. I would be taking courses designated as Chemical engineering, but nothing considered chemistry except for Orgo I and II and these 2 lab courses that I take along with orgo. The first semester, Intro. Synthetic/Spectroscopic Lab Techniques is 2 credits, and then the second semester, Intermediate, is 3 credits. At my school sometimes people replace Intro. with the Orgo. Lab, so I guess I could do that, and then maybe use the 3 credit course as one of the two “upper level chemistry courses” to replace Gen Chem 1 and 2?</p>
<p>My son is ChemE and pre-med. He skipped Gen Chem using AP credits. He’s taken other chem classes because of his major and he does have a Chem minor. </p>
<p>I’ve heard mixed info about OChem I and II counting as the “next level”. I’m not sure that’s true since those are also pre-reqs. </p>
<p>Look over the req’ts for ChemE…are there extra Chem classes or do they have ChemE names?</p>
<p>Required courses for my major are all under the ChemE department, so they are labelled as ChemE courses.</p>
<p>For example, we have ChemE Thermodynamics I and II. The rest of the courses required are Material Balance, Energy Balance, Numerical Methods for ChemE, ChemE Fluid Mechanics, ChemE Heat and Mass Transfer, Reaction Engineering and Chemical Kinetics, Separation Techniques, ChemE Lab I II III IV, Polymer Engineering, Process Engineering.</p>
<p>Then maybe you should take BioChem I and II (under Chem…not bio).</p>