When should you repeat science courses from AP? Credit

<p>When should you do this? Of course when you don't pass the AP exam. But what other times. Should you always do this or not? Cuz then the credit from the AP would be worthless.</p>

<p>no, it's not worthless, it enables you to have a flexible schedule, giving you the option of either retaking the course or not, therefore choice =D</p>

<p>Always with non-science courses. Depends on the school for the others. For example, Duke has a special freshman organic chemistry section which grades much easier -- so it's good to be in that, meaning that you want AP Chem credit. Special circumstances like that matter.</p>

<p>At my Ds school they recommended that, even if you have the APs to get credit for chem 1 & 2 you go ahead and take chem 2 anyway. They have found that freshmen who go straight into the next chem (organic? - I was not listening too close as it did not really apply to her as she opted not to take the chem AP test as she felt she needed to do chem in the college setting) usually do not get as good grades which is frowned on by med/vet school. (Her school does not have any special class for freshman - that would put a different spin on it)</p>

<p>I say repeat all science classes even if you have AP credit. If you were able to pass the AP exam then you shouldn't have a problem passing the class in college. I would take all non-science ap credits. Also remember that AP classes dont count into the BCPM average, so retaking it in college and getting an A is an advantage with your BCPM.</p>

<p>Also what about if you're going to take the subject, but at the level past what the AP credits gave you?</p>

<p>... what about it?</p>

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<p>Its fine to accept it, but you should know that many of the upper level classes are harder than the general classes. For chem you would be doing analytical, 'real" inorganic, and physical chem. For physics, there is modern physics, mechanics, electromagnetism. For biology, there is genetics, immunology, microbiology, etc.</p>

<p>Echo BDM on the non-science courses. There's no reason not to take the AP exams for these courses</p>

<p>I think AP Chem is a bad idea, or at least taking the AP exam, unless you absolutely 100% can gain some sort of advantage from it - like the more easily graded organic chem BDM mentioned at Duke...but even then, I'm not so sure that an easily graded organic course is worth having to take Analytical Chem and Physical Chem on the back end to make up for the gen chem requirement. Of course, biochem may count at some medical schools (my school requires biochem, so it wouldn't have taken the place of gen chem for me)</p>

<p>Physics...does anyone besides physics majors ever take anything beyond intro? I'm not even sure what the next step in the physics sequence is. Considering the overall low yield of physics (though a few select topics are extremely high yield) in relevance to medicine, I don't think AP Physics credit is worth it. The class might still be worthwhile if it's well taught at your HS and may mean you don't have to take physics before the MCAT (assuming of course you use one of the commercial test prep courses like Kaplan to give you the physics review you need). </p>

<p>AP Bio - I think you should take it. If you're really interested in medicine, intro bio is going to bore you with a lot of stuff you have no interest in. Get the AP credit to get you out of the intro courses and into upper level courses that you're more interested in - cell bio, genetics, molecular, biochem, micro, physiology, anatomy, embryology, are all more relevant and interesting.</p>

<p>Duke students use biochem on the back end to make up the requirement. (Schools that require biochem are usually willing to double-count it.)</p>

<p>But unless your school is weird (as Duke is, with their extra freshman session) BRM's certainly right that skipping genchem is not usually worthwhile.</p>

<h2>Brm, isn;t it true that most med schools accept ap credits for physics therefore don;t require you to go beyond general physics after receiving credit for that ap exam? so why isn;t it worth it?...lol...i'll personally be happy if that is not true but yea...since i did so badly on the ap phys exam during my senior yr->cheer to procrasination lol</h2>

<p>for some schools, i think some upper level classes r graded "easier" as compared to lower level classes, meaning no curve...so everyone can fail or everyone can get As. And first semester for some undergrad schools are covered so ochem</p>

<p>Show me a list of schools that accept AP Physics. Most places I've seen anything mentioned about AP classes is only to say that no AP credit is accepted in any subject.</p>

<p>well BRM i know that JHU accepts Physics Credit and UVA accepts all three sciences. If top schools like these take them I would assume others would also.</p>

<p>Actually very few schools will accept AP credit for physics, gen chem, bio, or orgo. You really can't get away with not taking any of those subjects in college.</p>

<p>Keep in mind though that UVA requires that your undergraduate college actually gave you credit towards graduation (ie, you probably got an actual grade attached to the credit). This does not happen at a lot of undergrad institutions (certainly not at mine). </p>

<p>The point is, you can't limit yourself to only the limited pool of schools which happen to take AP credit in a particular scenario. The ONLY AP strategy that makes sense is to assume that whatever school you end up at will not accept that credit, because most won't. It's idiotic to prematurely narrow your possibilities based on AP Credit of all things.</p>

<p>ok, so from what we learned, it s usually ok to use ap credit as long as we take upper level courses =D, wow, makes me feel better about how my senior procrasination didn;t kill me as much as i originally thought it did =D</p>

<p>"ok, so from what we learned, it s usually ok to use ap credit as long as we take upper level courses =D, wow, makes me feel better about how my senior procrasination didn;t kill me as much as i originally thought it did =D"</p>

<p>Can we get a consensus on this? Is darkhope correct? (I hope so)!!!!!!!</p>

<p>^, exception r humanity aps lol...but my school doesn;t accept any humanity aps b/s foreign language so yea lol</p>

<p>You can take the equivalent time in more advanced courses if you like. So you still have to spend a year in physics, but if you'd like, you can take something really difficult and irrelevant.</p>