Cornell - higher-level biology courses with laboratory

[throwaway_prevet]

According to the Cornell website, "If you have received Advanced Placement (AP) credit for general biology, you should enroll in a full year of higher-level biology courses with laboratory. The Admissions Committee will note in judging the quality of your academic program that you have fulfilled the biology requirement at a level higher than the minimum requirement."

Can someone give me an example of what this might entail? I plan on taking upper level biology courses with laboratory (like micro+lab, physiology+lab, etc.) but these are only semester courses. Does "full year" mean a two-part series like Gen Bio 1 and 2? Or would the examples I listed count? Thanks!

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[LamJams]

According to the Cornell website, "If you have received Advanced Placement (AP) credit for general biology, you should enroll in a full year of higher-level biology courses with laboratory. The Admissions Committee will note in judging the quality of your academic program that you have fulfilled the biology requirement at a level higher than the minimum requirement."

Can someone give me an example of what this might entail? I plan on taking upper level biology courses with laboratory (like micro+lab, physiology+lab, etc.) but these are only semester courses. Does "full year" mean a two-part series like Gen Bio 1 and 2? Or would the examples I listed count? Thanks!

2 semesters or 3 quarters usually

 

[throwaway_prevet]

2 semesters or 3 quarters usually

Could you provide an example?

 

[EngrSC]

Could you provide an example?

Best to contact their admissions office so you know specifically what they mean.

I would interpret it as a full year course with parts 1 and 2. Like my school has A&P I and A&P II. But you should definitely contact Cornell’s admissions to confirm.

 

[throwaway_prevet]

Best to contact their admissions office so you know specifically what they mean.

I would interpret it as a full year course with parts 1 and 2. Like my school has A&P I and A&P II. But you should definitely contact Cornell’s admissions to confirm.

Will do, I just thought that maybe some current Cornell vet students or alum could comment and tell me what they did to satisfy this requirement, but I'll contact them as well.

 

[LamJams]

Could you provide an example?

2 Semesters of bio or 3 quarters of bio. depending on whether your school is on semester or quarter system.

Dont rely on your ap credits imo. most schools require you to take the pre reqs at a 4 year university. Plus any bio full year with lab is easily completed if you are pretty much any sort of science major

 

[pp9]

2 Semesters of bio or 3 quarters of bio. depending on whether your school is on semester or quarter system.

Dont rely on your ap credits imo. most schools require you to take the pre reqs at a 4 year university. Plus any bio full year with lab is easily completed if you are pretty much any sort of science major

Not true. Most (all?) schools actually accept AP credit as long as it shows up on your undergrad transcript (which it will if you sent the scores to your undegrad institution). There are only so many pre-reqs you can get done with AP classes, though.

Most (all?) schools accept pre-reqs from 2-year community colleges as well. Again, there are only so many pre-reqs you can actually get done at your average CC usually.

 

[throwaway_prevet]

2 Semesters of bio or 3 quarters of bio. depending on whether your school is on semester or quarter system.

Dont rely on your ap credits imo. most schools require you to take the pre reqs at a 4 year university. Plus any bio full year with lab is easily completed if you are pretty much any sort of science major

Which specific schools are you referring to? The schools that I have researched will either accept AP credit for courses like Bio and Chem, or like Cornell, give additional requirements. I don't know of one that strictly denies AP credit altogether.

 

[LamJams]

Which specific schools are you referring to? The schools that I have researched will either accept AP credit for courses like Bio and Chem, or like Cornell, give additional requirements. I don't know of one that strictly denies AP credit altogether.

My bad, I meant UPPER-DIV prereq courses, my mind was on the upper div you were talking about at the second paragraph of your intro post.
This is from the UC Davis website Pre-req for vetmed

" B. Upper Division Required Sciences (Must be completed at a four-year college; may not be completed at a community college. MUST BE TAKEN AT THE UPPER DIVISION LEVEL. Lower division courses not acceptable.) "

Sorry for the confusion, hope it still helps in some way, best of luck.