"One year with lab" - well, how many units would that be?

[cputty]

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Hi all,

I am a nontrad applicant looking for advice.

I have a general question about the admission requirements for many of the DO schools. A lot of them list their premed requirements in chem/bio/phys to be one year with lab, but did not specify how many lab units that would be. I know that this is a silly question, but does "one year with lab" mean that I'd have to have one year of whatever classes with a lab component attached to it, or just with some lab components during that one year?

Basically, for UGs on semesters, would I have to do two semesters of general chemistry with lab, or can I get away with one semester of general chemistry with lab, plus an upper division inorganic/physical chemistry class without lab?

Thanks!

 

[MedPR]

Hi all,

I am a nontrad applicant looking for advice.

I have a general question about the admission requirements for many of the DO schools. A lot of them list their premed requirements in chem/bio/phys to be one year with lab, but did not specify how many lab units that would be. I know that this is a silly question, but does "one year with lab" mean that I'd have to have one year of whatever classes with a lab component attached to it, or just with some lab components during that one year?

Basically, for UGs on semesters, would I have to do two semesters of general chemistry with lab, or can I get away with one semester of general chemistry with lab, plus an upper division inorganic/physical chemistry class without lab?

Thanks!

One year of lecture+lab combined. So gen chem 1 + lab and gen chem 2 + lab.

 

[rzoo14]

Hi all,

I am a nontrad applicant looking for advice.

I have a general question about the admission requirements for many of the DO schools. A lot of them list their premed requirements in chem/bio/phys to be one year with lab, but did not specify how many lab units that would be. I know that this is a silly question, but does "one year with lab" mean that I'd have to have one year of whatever classes with a lab component attached to it, or just with some lab components during that one year?

Basically, for UGs on semesters, would I have to do two semesters of general chemistry with lab, or can I get away with one semester of general chemistry with lab, plus an upper division inorganic/physical chemistry class without lab?

Thanks!

At my school, one year of freshmen science labs would be 2 units. For example BIOL 1 lab is 1 unit and BIOL 2 lab is 1 unit.
Advance labs like Ochem 1 lab is 2 units and Ochem 2 lab is 2 units. Genetics lab is 3 units.

Most school websites tell you how many credits you need.

Hope that helps.

 

[TriagePreMed]

This is not complicated stuff, man. One year with lab. By taking 1 semester of lab have you taken one year? No. It's that simple. Also, they don't specify the units because they ask for a total of 8 units. Usually lab classes are 4 units a semester. In rare cases, like my college, they are 5 units, but there is no case when lecture + lab is 3 units.

 

[HH8911]

I had this same question when researching schools to apply to. At my school, lecture is 4 credits and lab is 1-2. For Organic Chem I took lecture 1 and 2 (8 credits) but only 1 lab (1 credit) for a total of 9 credits. I emailed every DO school and about 25 MD schools, which were ambiguous about their requirements (most said 8 credits, 1 year). The only DO school that I didn't meet the requirements for was PCOM. My best advice is just to email admissions at schools you're interested in regarding your situation.

 

[dudeliness]

Yeah you can certainly email admissions, but if you take a lab with EACH semester class you'll be good to go.

 

[cputty]

Yea, thanks for the help. The reason I am wondering about this is because I've actually had some upper-division lab-only classes that may actually satisfy the inorganic chemistry requirements.

Plus when I attended college, our school did not have split the lab and lectures for gen/org chem or biology, so that made things a lot more difficult to figure out.