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So I went to an AP-crazy high school (read: I came in with 50-some AP credits.) and am currently at a state school that accepted all those.
I got credit for all my basic sciences (placed out of the first year of bio, chem, physics, and math) with for my major means that I needed a year of organic, some biochem, and some upper-level bio courses.
My problem is this: most of the schools I apply to have really basic matriculation requirements, like a year of physics, and will only accept AP credit for a semester or not at all. Since physics was NOT my forte, I really feel like the solution is to find some physics class for idiots and just take it to fill their semester requirement.
Anyway - I can take conceptual physics (the course description said it was conceptual, not mathematical, and designed for non-science majors, so I could probably do really well in that) but I just found out that there is a basic astro course offered by the physics department that I could take as well. Will this count as physics? Or do I have to call individual schools and ask?
I got credit for all my basic sciences (placed out of the first year of bio, chem, physics, and math) with for my major means that I needed a year of organic, some biochem, and some upper-level bio courses.
My problem is this: most of the schools I apply to have really basic matriculation requirements, like a year of physics, and will only accept AP credit for a semester or not at all. Since physics was NOT my forte, I really feel like the solution is to find some physics class for idiots and just take it to fill their semester requirement.
Anyway - I can take conceptual physics (the course description said it was conceptual, not mathematical, and designed for non-science majors, so I could probably do really well in that) but I just found out that there is a basic astro course offered by the physics department that I could take as well. Will this count as physics? Or do I have to call individual schools and ask?