Ignoring a prereq?

[Kyuss]

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I have an issue and need some opinions.

I took General Chemistry 1 Lecture at my first undergrad (where lab and lecture are separate courses) and got a C. I transferred next semester to my current undergrad (where lab and lecture are the same course), and was awarded full credit for the course.

I have complete all other prerequisites since then and my grades have risen substantially as well. However, this puts me in the position of having only 7 credit hours of General Chemistry (2 semesters of lectures and only 1 of lab).

My school's pre-health adviser told me to ignore it when I asked him a couple years ago. Now I can't seem to get around filling out secondaries that ask me if I've met all their prerequisites. Do I say I that have (and lie)? Do I retake the full Gen Chem 1 (as my adviser instructed against)? Do I take an upper-level inorganic chemistry class w/ lab to make up for it?


In short: Can I look past a missing gen chem lab?

Thanks for reading, any input is much appreciated.

 

[tiedyeddog]

I have an issue and need some opinions.

I took General Chemistry 1 Lecture at my first undergrad (where lab and lecture are separate courses) and got a C. I transferred next semester to my current undergrad (where lab and lecture are the same course), and was awarded full credit for the course.

I have complete all other prerequisites since then and my grades have risen substantially as well. However, this puts me in the position of having only 7 credit hours of General Chemistry (2 semesters of lectures and only 1 of lab).

My school's pre-health adviser told me to ignore it when I asked him a couple years ago. Now I can't seem to get around filling out secondaries that ask me if I've met all their prerequisites. Do I say I that have (and lie)? Do I retake the full Gen Chem 1 (as my adviser instructed against)? Do I take an upper-level inorganic chemistry class w/ lab to make up for it?


In short: Can I look past a missing gen chem lab?

Thanks for reading, any input is much appreciated.

You don't have take it before applying but you have to take that lab before you start medical school.

 

[Kyuss]

You don't have take it before applying but you have to take that lab before you start medical school.

Right, that's what I was thinking, which means I would have to report on the secondary applications that I have not yet met all the prerequisites. But the separate lab isn't offered at my current undergrad, so If I want to retake it, I would be taking the whole course again.

Should I go with that or tell them that I'll be taking biochem lab or another upper-level chemistry class instead?

Thanks for the help!

 

[Praefectus]

Right, that's what I was thinking, which means I would have to report on the secondary applications that I have not yet met all the prerequisites. But the separate lab isn't offered at my current undergrad, so If I want to retake it, I would be taking the whole course again.

Should I go with that or tell them that I'll be taking biochem lab or another upper-level chemistry class instead?

Thanks for the help!

You should take all of your pre-reqs at a 4 year institution. A pre-req is a pre-req and I doubt that you could replace gen chem with biochem.

 

[brokeninnosense]

I actually had the same exact issue as you. My undergrad wouldn't let me retake the first gchem lab (since I had already completed orgo at the time they discovered the problem) so they had me take biochem lab in replacement in order to fulfill my degree requirements.

However, after applying this year, it seems that some schools will take the biochem as a replacement, and some won't. I'm taking the first gchem class (lecture and lab) at a community college this fall to fulfill the prereq. I need to take it at a community college cuz most universities won't let you go back and take gchem when you already completed the sequence.

 

[Kyuss]

I actually had the same exact issue as you. My undergrad wouldn't let me retake the first gchem lab (since I had already completed orgo at the time they discovered the problem) so they had me take biochem lab in replacement in order to fulfill my degree requirements.

However, after applying this year, it seems that some schools will take the biochem as a replacement, and some won't. I'm taking the first gchem class (lecture and lab) at a community college this fall to fulfill the prereq. I need to take it at a community college cuz most universities won't let you go back and take gchem when you already completed the sequence.

I was sort of hoping that taking biochem would have some schools look the other way. Hopefully at least some schools will be fine with that since admission is contingent on more than just some intro classes.

I emailed the dean of admissions for Einstein since their secondary explicitly asks whether I have completed the prereqs, and she said I was fine. So that answers my question. Thanks everyone.

You'll just have to take the lab sometime at another school. Technically, you're not done with the prereqs.

True, and if the school I end up being accepted to calls me out on it, I will probably end up taking just the lab component over the summer at my first undergrad.