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Hi everyone,
I'm looking at the admission requirements for various dental schools and it states for example, their prerequisites are 8 semester units of biology, 8 semester units of chemistry, 8 semester units of organic chemistry, 8 semester units of physics, etc etc.
Not all, but a few of the dental schools continue to say that none of the pre-req courses can have a grade below a C.
I was wondering what is considered as 8 semester units of biology - is it just General Biology or can it be any Biology course. I ask because I messed up my freshmen year of college and got a D+ in general biology I (the very first biology course taken for pre-dents and bio majors). For some reason, I did not re-take it. Will this disqualify me from those dental schools that say no prereq courses below a C will be accepted? Or, is it possible that they will count Physio, Histology, Biochem, Anatomy, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Genetics - any one of those as fulfilling the "biology" pre-req so that I am still qualified to apply to those schools?
I see that some schools are specific as to what they count for the biology pre-req and they do say that other upper division courses can count for the biology pre-req but i'm not sure if I can extrapolate that to all schools, especially since not all dental schools specify on their website and just say 8 units of biology and i'm afraid those schools mean 8 units of only General Biology.
Hopefully this isn't a dumb question.
Thank you!!
edit: I accidentally put 4 units of biology in my title when I meant 8. oops!
I'm looking at the admission requirements for various dental schools and it states for example, their prerequisites are 8 semester units of biology, 8 semester units of chemistry, 8 semester units of organic chemistry, 8 semester units of physics, etc etc.
Not all, but a few of the dental schools continue to say that none of the pre-req courses can have a grade below a C.
I was wondering what is considered as 8 semester units of biology - is it just General Biology or can it be any Biology course. I ask because I messed up my freshmen year of college and got a D+ in general biology I (the very first biology course taken for pre-dents and bio majors). For some reason, I did not re-take it. Will this disqualify me from those dental schools that say no prereq courses below a C will be accepted? Or, is it possible that they will count Physio, Histology, Biochem, Anatomy, Microbiology, Evolution, Ecology, Genetics - any one of those as fulfilling the "biology" pre-req so that I am still qualified to apply to those schools?
I see that some schools are specific as to what they count for the biology pre-req and they do say that other upper division courses can count for the biology pre-req but i'm not sure if I can extrapolate that to all schools, especially since not all dental schools specify on their website and just say 8 units of biology and i'm afraid those schools mean 8 units of only General Biology.
Hopefully this isn't a dumb question.
Thank you!!
edit: I accidentally put 4 units of biology in my title when I meant 8. oops!