I am talking about no general bio, but taking other upper division classes, such as a cardiovascular course, cancer bio, community bio etc. I am also talking about not having any AP courses in bio. I see that most medical schools mention just "biology" in general, and not "general bio" and even the ones that mention "general bio" may have the intention of that meaning "basic bio." Based on what I have found out from people, they have typically mentioned that they had AP courses, and elected to skip that biological science course, I don't know if they received credit or just moved on to another course in the sequence. My situation is where I started pre-med later, and started jumping into upper division courses doing fine, because I had a biological science course 4 credits as a freshman back in the day, although they claimed it was for non-majors at my particular school, I don't know if they used "principles" or "concepts" but I didn't feel like taking a big 5 credit hour class that would take up all my time with a bunch of freshman, so I just started in upper level courses that had more of a lecture component. The 4 credit hour class I took had a lab, and I also took a 3000 level genetics laboratory course. My final question, is there any upper level courses in bio where the med schools think that course is easy? Overall my post bac science is about 3.7.