Biology prereqs

[htown wildcat]

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I saw that most schools require 8 semester hours of Biology with lab. I have 8 hours of Biology lecture & 6 hours of Biochemistry lab, NOT Biology lab. Does anyone know if I meet the requirement?

 

[OSUdoc08]

I saw that most schools require 8 semester hours of Biology with lab. I have 8 hours of Biology lecture & 6 hours of Biochemistry lab, NOT Biology lab. Does anyone know if I meet the requirement?

No. You need 2 hours of general biology lab that is complementary to the 6 hours of general biology lecture.

 

[scpod]

I saw that most schools require 8 semester hours of Biology with lab. I have 8 hours of Biology lecture & 6 hours of Biochemistry lab, NOT Biology lab. Does anyone know if I meet the requirement?

They are looking for Biology courses with a lab. Not Biology courses and some other lab from a different course.

 

[mshheaddoc]

Specifically most schools ar elooking for Intro to biology (usually a majors course) with lab and zoology (or sometimes called biology 2) with lab.

 

[MossPoh]

It is kind of weird that they offer 4 credit bio without lab anyway. At least at the schools I've seen it is always 3 credits for the lecture and then a 1 credit lab kind of thrown in.

 

[OSUdoc08]

Specifically most schools ar elooking for Intro to biology (usually a majors course) with lab and zoology (or sometimes called biology 2) with lab.

At my school, "intro to biology" was a non-major course.

"General biology" was the major (pre-med) course.

The best way to tell is that "intro" was a 1-semester 4-hour course, where as "general" was a 2-semester 8-hour course.

Obviously you need 8 hours, no matter what the course is called.

 

[timmah2k]

I was always under the assumption that any 2 biology courses (8 credits) would fulfill the requirement such as anatomy with lab and microbiology with lab. Am I wrong to assume this?

I know KCOM accepts AP Biology taken in high school that transfered to 8 credits in my college.

 

[pokeytu]

timmah2k you are correct. I had AP credits for general bio so my 8 credits of bio were a year long physiology+lab class, and I had no problem with any school I applied to. You can take upperlevel bio classes to fulfill the credit but when its all said and done you need 8 credits of classes starting with bio and 2 semesters in a lab associated with those classes.