Question about o-chem lab requirements?

[LondonBliss]

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When a school says they want 6 credits for o-chem and they don't say anything about the lab, like Ohio, do they want the lab too? The school I went to for undergrad had o-chem lecture each semester at 3 credits and the lab was at 1 credit each semester. I still need to take the labs (only took the lecture at the time), though i do have a condensed 1 semester Elementary o-chem lecture +lab that = 4 credits, not sure if it satisfies these schools requirements. i'm guessing they like to see General o-chem. UC Davis also says 1 year o-chem w/lab, so they mean labs both semesters or just one? LSU says only 3 credits, again is a lab needed there? Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[GellaBella]

Your best bet is to email the schools and ask them personally.

I would assume that lab should be included, but I guess I'm kind of confused because every school I've looked at requires orgo + lab before you move on to any of the upper chemistry courses, so in my situation it was a moot point. I had to take a full year of orgo + labs before biochem etc.

But when you have these sorts of situations, where you already have credits and need to determine if what you have satisfies a schools pre-reqs, it is best to go straight to the source. If you email them with the course description of what you've taken so far and the credits for it, they will let you know whether they will accept it or not. Email is the best way because then you have their response in writing.

Besides, you don't want to trust what someone tells you on here and then get a letter in December/January telling you your application is no longer under consideration because you didn't/wont meet their pre-reqs.

 

[StartingoverVet]

Your best bet is to email the schools and ask them personally.

Besides, you don't want to trust what someone tells you on here and then get a letter in December/January telling you your application is no longer under consideration because you didn't/wont meet their pre-reqs.

GeeBee speaks truth!

 

[quantized]

Well email Davis to double check obviously, but afaik they want one year of chem and a lab that covers both those terms. A lot of the UC and CSU schools have the lab for both terms as a separate course that only takes up one semester that you can take anytime once you start the first semester of the ochem sequence, which never made any sense to me because half the lab was stuff people wouldn't see for another semester, but there you go.

 

[NStarz]

I was in the same situation and e-mailed Cornell, Tufts, Illinois, and I think one other school as well.

I had taken 6 credits of lecture and only one, 2 credit lab for orgo I. (Adding up to 8 credits for organic, total). Cornell was the only one with an issue that I only took the 1 lab and they wanted me to take 2. Needless to say, I probably won't be applying to Cornell because they are the only ones that want the extra lab (and all of those LORs as well!)

I would definitely second e-mailing the schools. Every UG institution is different in terms of labs and credit descriptions.

 

[Jessi Chris]

While you should check for your own benefit, I'm pretty sure Ohio State doesn't require O-chem labs.

I'm an OSU pre-vet student now and that's one of the things I both love (because I dislike Ochem) and hate (because many other schools require the labs) about OSU's vet school prereqs.