biochemistry = general chemistry??

[charuu]

So on the Einstein admissions website it says:
"REQUIREMENTS:
One year, including laboratory instruction, of each of the following:
Biological Sciences
General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physics
There are acceptable alternatives to the traditional one year organic chemistry sequence, e.g. one semester of Biochemistry can substitute for the second semester of Organic Chemistry."

I have one acceleration General Chemistry credit from high school (but not sure if that counts?), one semester of General Chemistry (with lab), and then one semester of Biochemistry (with lab). Does this fulfill the requirement for Gen Chem?
I was unclear because the only "acceptable alternative" they gave on the website was for Biochem to replace 2nd semester Orgo...
Or does anyone know if Einstein accepts high school AP credits?
Thanks!

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[NH14]

Generally, medical schools don't take AP credits in lieu of a required premedical college course. Just check with admissions or search their website a bit more to see if this is true with Einstein.

 

[Drogo]

So on the Einstein admissions website it says:
"REQUIREMENTS:
One year, including laboratory instruction, of each of the following:
Biological Sciences
General Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physics
There are acceptable alternatives to the traditional one year organic chemistry sequence, e.g. one semester of Biochemistry can substitute for the second semester of Organic Chemistry."

I have one acceleration General Chemistry credit from high school (but not sure if that counts?), one semester of General Chemistry (with lab), and then one semester of Biochemistry (with lab). Does this fulfill the requirement for Gen Chem?
I was unclear because the only "acceptable alternative" they gave on the website was for Biochem to replace 2nd semester Orgo...
Or does anyone know if Einstein accepts high school AP credits?
Thanks!

It looks like you still have to take chem 2 and organic chemistry 1.

 

[charuu]

It looks like you still have to take chem 2 and organic chemistry 1.

i have a full year of orgo + lab already

 

[dmf2682]

Give them a call and ask

 

[charuu]

Give them a call and ask

so i just called and was told that biochemistry only counts for second semester of orgo. nothing else.
however, they accept ap credits as long as they appear on the transcript (which mine does). i asked if the high school ap credit is assumed to include lab, and she said it must appear on the transcript...? i wasn't aware that people usually listed high school labs on their transcript

i asked her if i could list that my high school AP chem included lab somewhere on my secondary to explain. she said i could try and if there was a problem, they'd contact me...

 

[Stumpyman]

I would do the second sem of orgo anyways- just to not close too many doors.

 

[centrigeugle]

What's very confusing is that, very frequently, medical schools specify that they want inorganic chemistry. In my school that's a graduate-level chemistry class.

In this context, inorganic chemistry means genchem. Biochemistry is another animal altogether.

 

[Big Dog]

there was Inorganic Chem (aka Gen Chem) and Organic Chem....now the name "Inorganic" has become specialized and upper division-worthy.

 

[Hotshy]

From Einstein's Page: Formal advanced placement credit, granted by examination in an area of required undergraduate course work, is acceptable to satisfy that requirement.

However, it is strongly recommended that applicants who receive AP credit in Biology, complete advanced level course work in that subject.

Examples of advanced courses are: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Immunology,Genetics, Neuroscience, Physiology and Microbiology.

But that's not technically AP credit I suppose.

 

[Life Eternal]

there was Inorganic Chem (aka Gen Chem) and Organic Chem....now the name "Inorganic" has become specialized and upper division-worthy.

Inorganic chemistry is a subdiscipline of chemistry and is not by any means a new subdiscipline of chemistry.

 

[Doctor246853]

I would do the second sem of orgo anyways- just to not close too many doors.

Bingo. No question at all for me. Leave no stone unturned. You'll never know when something might come back to bite you...

 

[NickNaylor]

Just take all of the pre-reqs. You'll be kicking yourself later if you want to apply to/attend a school that doesn't accept AP credit whatsoever.

 

[Big Dog]

Inorganic chemistry is a subdiscipline of chemistry and is not by any means a new subdiscipline of chemistry.

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..just that the nomenclature has changed over time (the decades). In the dark ages, a college catalog might list the introductory premed Frosh Course Chem as Inorganic Chem. (Back then, Gen Chem, or Introductory Chem, was for students who did not have Chem in HS or a poor preparation for college-level work.) Now many colleges call the main Frosh premed course, 'General Chem' (or Chem 1 or....); and searching their catalog for Inorganic Chem, yields an upper division course.

Some med school websites still use the old nomenclature, 'Inorganic Chem' as a prereq, when they really mean the frosh version of Gen Chem, not the upper division version.