<p>AP BIOLOGY, AP CHEMISTRY, AP PHYSICS</p>
<p>Which one should I take for Junior year?
I want to go into the medical field..Also which is the most difficult, and the most easiest out of all three?</p>
<p>Which one is hard or easy depends on your high school, obviously.</p>
<p>I’d say either bio or chem. Physics can wait.</p>
<p>But to be totally honest, it doesn’t really matter which you take.</p>
<p>AP Chem…Bio is easy don’t need AP for that stuff. Physics blows just wait for college. AP Chem is good cause if u study real hard u can take the AP exam and get out of Gen Chem 1 usually</p>
<p>This is wrong advice. Bio is not ALWAYS easier. Physics does not ALWAYS “blow”. Getting out of GenChem1 is not always (or even usually) a good idea. It depends on the courses as they are taught at your school and does not matter in the long run.</p>
<p>Oh w/e what are you talking about. AP Bio in high school is for the most part a complete waste of time. Of course it depends on your school, but cmon the stuff you learn in AP Bio is like ur first semester of Intro to Bio. I guess if you really think it’ll help so be it. </p>
<p>Physics blows I don’t care what you say it blows LOL. When I say blow it doesn’t necessarily mean hard cause I aced my both Physics 1 & 2 but it was torture. </p>
<p>and why not take AP Chem r u serious??? Chem is usually really difficult for people when they get into college so if they took AP Chem in HS it ends up bein a lot easier. </p>
<p>I haven’t been on this website in forever LOL…but I sure remember my disagreements with bluedevilmike hahaha</p>
<p>do AP chem…it will be useful…just dont take all of them together your junior year…i did…it was terrible…i still have nightmares :o…bio and physics will be a good combo for senior year…</p>
<p>I do not recommend taking AP Chem, or at least not taking the AP exam. Too many issues with transferring AP credit and completing required pre-med chem courses. If you end up at a school that requires you to use your AP credits and won’t let you retake courses for which you already have AP credit awarded, you end up having to take upper level chemistry course work (after organic) that is notoriously extremely difficult (Analytical chem and physical chem, typically).
Same thing with Physics.</p>
<p>Safest bet is to take AP Bio in which case getting out of general intro bio is usually a good thing as the more interesting courses in bio are upper level and they aren’t nearly as difficult as the upper level chem and physics courses.</p>
<p>Again though, if you simply don’t take the AP exam, then it doesn’t really matter because you won’t be forced to skip general chemistry.</p>
<p>My main reason for taking AP classes in high school wasn’t so much about getting out of an intro course in college, but more of building a strong work ethic and challenging myself. At my school, AP classes were just more work and more thinking, which is what college is. I felt that those types of classes prepared me well for college. So, just take what you want to take and develop good study habits.</p>
<p>I’d do AP Chem but screw the AP exam…w/e it’s all up to you whatever you’ll enjoy lol.</p>
<p>so the general consensus here would be to take AP sciences for the learning/challenge, but not the AP exam just in case the college is strict about credits?</p>
<p>would this be the same for stuff like math? what about psych, econ, stats?</p>
<p>I took AP Bio in HS and lvoed it. Then, when I went off to colelge, my score got me out of taknig intro Bio-- a class that I’m very glad I didn’t take. I was able to start upper level bio classes ASAP-- an AP Bio base sufficed fine for these classes. Because of that, I’ve been able to take 2 or 3 extra upper-level (more specific) Bio classes, all of which I have loved. Obviously, everyone’s experiences will be different, but that was mine (as well as my roommates).</p>
<p>Psycho, econ, stats aren’t required for med school. I have taken them in college but just out of general interest. If you want to take an AP class and take the exam for those to fulfill university core requirements thats cool. </p>
<p>I don’t know if its this case for everyone but everyone at my university told me I needed 1 yr of math…so I took Calc 1 and 2. Now I hate math so never in my life would I take the AP Exam and try to get out them cause then wouldn’t I have to take like Calc 3?? I dunno about that one. At U of Michigan a lot of the people who took AP Calc in HS found Calc 1 extremely easy (regardless if they took the AP exam) and a lot of people who didn’t do Calc in HS found it a bit tough Freshman year…</p>
<p>that’s what I’ve seen so far in my 3 yrs in college lol</p>
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This is sometimes a good thing.</p>
<p>And UCLA Med requires stats. I haven’t seen anywhere else that does though.</p>
<p>so math would be generally a lot more manageable w/ AP experience but no test?</p>
<p>and what about AP foreign languages, in the case that some med schools may require it?</p>
<p>oh, i only mentioned stats b/c i think bio majors have to take it, so i was wondering whether or not it would be advisable to take AP stat and take/not take the AP exam?</p>
<p>I will only vouch that my position of taking AP courses but not AP exams applies to Chem and Physics ONLY. I will continue to recommend that if you take AP Bio, you should take the AP exam. For all other courses, I make no judgments, and offer no advice. </p>
<p>The proper course of action in these situations depends enormously on what you believe you can score on the AP exam, what your future school will be, what that school’s policy on AP credit is, what your major ends up being, what courses your major requires, and how much you enjoy those subjects. I comment only on the sciences because we know you’ll have to take them to be pre-med, because med schools are most strict about their completion and because the consequences of being forced to take more advanced college coursework in those fields is well known. </p>
<p>I’ll give one example to illustrate - English. Say you take both the Language and the Literature courses and AP exams and obtain qualifying scores on both. At your future school, this gets you out of Comp I and II. You’ll still need to take a year of English classes to fulfill your medical school requirements. Because you are out of the mundane English classes, you have a wide variety of courses you can take - things which may interest you much more than a simple writing course. These course may cover topics that interest you such as creative writing or 20th Century Fiction. The difficulty of these classes is largely unknown, but you now have the option to pick and choose classes based on reputation, and even if they prove difficult, the grades aren’t counted twice like science classes are (since the science and the overall GPA are important). Thus, it becomes easy to see that taking AP English exams is probably a good idea as there are few academic repercussions and qualifying scores on the exam get you out of mundane courses. Contrast this to the situation a good AP Chem exam score gets you, and hopefully you can begin to understand how to think through this decision making process on your own.</p>
<p>i have a question re: AP credits/class registering:</p>
<p>is there a huge difference b/t no AP credits and someone who has at least a few credits in signing up for a better prof (easier grading, tests, etc.)?</p>
<p>i guess i could be saying that are there successful premeds who’ve gone through college classes w/ extremely hard profs b/c of litte/no AP credit?</p>
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<p>How many AP credits you have has nothing to do with registering for classes. I got great professors in my first quarter by checking ratemyprofessors.com and then making choices during registration.</p>
<p>At my school, registration depends on how many credits you have earned. Logically, seniors have earned the most credits and are able to register first, then juniors, sophomores, and finally freshmen are last. For example, having AP credits as a freshman adds to your total number of earned credits. Therefore, you can be a freshmen, but actually register with the sophomores because of those extra AP credits. The earlier you register, the more options you have in choosing your professor. Check how registration works at your school.</p>
<p>I agree with ASHES b/c same occurs in my school. I was lucky to have take 4 APs and thus I had soph status after my first semester. My take on the matter is to take the AP exam either way. State schools, from my experience, are pretty lax on APs and accept 3’s and higher. I would take the exam even if I felt like I was going to fail. That’s how I felt about physics and I did pretty well. You could always take a college course alongside your current schedule and that way the credits will transfer if you get a good score. Although this could be a problem if you do bad and when you apply to med schools, they request all transcripts from all college classes. So be careful and do what your gut tells you.</p>