Using AP credit for college

[brown2]

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For a first-year student (from Texas) at an Ivy League institution:

Should students use AP credit to skip Bio & Chem to go straight to advanced bio courses / organic chemistry?

Also, if the school only offers one introductory biology course (no second semester), will UTexas medical schools accept this as fulfilling prerequisites, assuming the student takes another 1-3 semesters of advanced bio?

Thanks.

 

[pillowfighty]

I took AP Bio and even my UG college wouldn't accept it to fulfill premed requirements. I have to take the intro bio classes anyways. Plus if your degree is in biology you might have to take them too, and you'll get advanced ones later.


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[The Knife & Gun Club]

So it’s kind of a tough call. I didn’t have any schools give me flack for using AP bio to skip Bio 1. But I took Bio 2 and another upper level bio with lab.

I think an upper level class with lab is crucial, because the 2 semesters of lab credit for physics, bio, chem, and Ochem are where a lot of schools get hung up.

Edit: to be clear, this is only IF your UG grants you credit for the class + lab, as my school did. If your UG school won’t honor the credits, you’ve gotta retake the class regardless.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

As an aside, there’s 2 competing schools of thought on this topic:

1) retake the class - you’ve already taken it so it should be an easy A, plus it’ll be a refresher before the upper level classes.

2) go straight to upper level - the intro classes are notoriously difficult and you don’t want to retake, work your butt off, and get a B or worse. The upper level classes are easier, so you’ll have a better GPA when all is said and done.

 

[brown2]

Thanks for the help y'all!