Three semester term General Biology course, took only two

[Troywonder18]

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I'm curious to know if I should take a CC third semester biology course or not. I've researched a lot of medical schools and it mentions on most websites that they want two semester/8 semester hours of general biology but did not specify if the biology courses need to fulfill cell biology, evolution, etc.

Basically I completed the following courses:
Biology 1 - general biology, cell biology, evolution, genetics
Biology 2 - organismal biology

course I did not take (edited: wasn't offered during the Spring semester at my school)
Biology 3 - cell biology

I emailed some schools and they said it's not a problem since they want two semesters of biology but I get the feeling the adcoms might say otherwise when they actually see that I only took two of three course sequence come application/review time. One school actually did tell me to complete the course to fulfill the general biology requirement based on the course descriptions I sent to the adcom. I would hate to have my application complete only to have the missing biology course stick out depending on some applications.

Am I over reacting on this or just take upper division biology courses to resolve the issue?

 

[mdphdNYC]

I'm confused - if the third class is not offered at your school, how can it be said that you "only took two of a three course sequence"? I only ever took two semesters of biology and was fine. Schools do encourage you to take more biology, but this can be fulfilled by e.g. an upper division class, or a neuroscience class, a physiology class, etc.

 

[Troywonder18]

I'm confused - if the third class is not offered at your school, how can it be said that you "only took two of a three course sequence"? I only ever took two semesters of biology and was fine. Schools do encourage you to take more biology, but this can be fulfilled by e.g. an upper division class, or a neuroscience class, a physiology class, etc.

Sorry about that, that was poorly explained on my part. Biology 003 is offered in the Spring semester and it wasn't so I couldn't take it.

Did you take two of a three general biology course sequence?

 

[mdphdNYC]

Ah no, my school only offered a two-course biology sequence. Adcoms don't require you to take every course in a sequence, just what they report as requirements (it would be unreasonable if they did - by that logic they could also ask why you didn't take Calc III and IV, even though they only required up to Calc II?) Many students didn't even take the second semester of Orgo as the schools they were applying to only required Orgo I

 

[Troywonder18]

Ah no, my school only offered a two-course biology sequence. Adcoms don't require you to take every course in a sequence, just what they report as requirements (it would be unreasonable if they did - by that logic they could also ask why you didn't take Calc III and IV, even though they only required up to Calc II?) Many students didn't even take the second semester of Orgo as the schools they were applying to only required Orgo I

gotcha. Many schools offer biology in a two course term sequence which is why I assumed med schools ask for two-semester/three-quarters of biology as part of the requirement. Completing the two course sequence fulfills general biology at many schools which is not the case with me.