I'm not a bio/chem major, so I'm not able to register for bio or chem for majors. Can I take the chemistry and biology classes for non-majors, as long as they are year long introductory courses with labs?
Have you talked to your pre health advisor? or visited pre health website in your school if you have one? I don't know about your school but in my school you must take the Chem and bio for majors, besides the MCAT covers bio orgo and gen chem from those courses, except the physics you can take the algebra based one which is not for physics majors.
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I have never known an Orgo class for non-majors so that settles that!
For Gen-chem, Bio, Physics, at the school I was doing my post-sec at, premeds did not have to take the classes for majors. At my current institution where I am working on a degree, premeds DO have to take the major classes as the others won't prepare you for the MCAT.
If the sequence courses are called: General Biology I and General Biology II, how would they know if it is for majors or not?
I'm confused with this thread, so forgive me if I sound like a complete idiot.
If you don't need to be a Biology or Chem major.. why does it matter? This thread is making it seem that if you are a non-science major, you will not get the right pre-requisite courses to get into medical school. Am I reading this right?
I'm confused with this thread, so forgive me if I sound like a complete idiot.
If you don't need to be a Biology or Chem major.. why does it matter? This thread is making it seem that if you are a non-science major, you will not get the right pre-requisite courses to get into medical school. Am I reading this right?
Just because your institution does not require this does not mean that medical schools will look at it favorably.
JJ, I'm sorry, I should have made this more clear:
Premeds who were non-majors were made to jump through hoops if they wanted to take the class for majors. To take physics for majors I had to meet with a professor which prescreened me using GPA and AP scores and then meet with the professor for the class.
But you are right, depending on institution, YMMV
If the sequence courses are called: General Biology I and General Biology II, how would they know if it is for majors or not?
I'm not a bio/chem major, so I'm not able to register for bio or chem for majors. Can I take the chemistry and biology classes for non-majors, as long as they are year long introductory courses with labs?
It is the best idea to take bio, chem, and orgo for majors. It would be hard to find courses in year long sequences otherwise, etc. However, the physics for non-majors (usually algebra based) can usually be taken instead of physics for science and engineering majors.
Do most undergraduate institutions actually control who registers for what in this manner? I'm really surprised by this thread. At my school we register for classes online, our schedules don't need signed off on by anyone, and with very few exceptions I could schedule any undergraduate course offered at the university if I wanted to.
Nobody is being forced to take anything they don't want to. But they are being forced to jump through hoops to take classes that they do want to.