Year of English?

I don't think that English APs count. I passed both of mine with pretty good scores but my counselor still insisted that I take a full year of college level English for medical school. Out of those, I believe the preference is to take at least one comp and one lit class.

 

I was in this situation, not having taken any English undergrad. I was able to use a Freshman Seminar class in Philosophy to fulfill one semester (W listed in course number on transcript because it was writing intensive). I did end up taking one English class post-bacc to fulfillt the requirement. That said, I do think it's possible if you had writing intensive classes that are not English, especially a humanities, to fulfill this req. Most schools that I called either said philosophy would be acceptable, or that I should get a course description sent from the school indicating the course was writing intensive.

If you want a definite answer, just call the up the schools you're interested in applying to.

 

I took 1 semester of English as well as several writing intensive non-English courses. I'm taking a community college course now, because I wasn't sure all schools I was applying to would accept it (even though I went to a liberal arts college). I was going to call them all, but there were like 15-20 of them that required English, so I just decided to take the course. I did take a freshman writing course in Bio, but there was no way for schools to know since I didn't indicate it as English on my AMCAS (b/c I figured AMCAS would have changed it) and it doesn't say anything special on my transcript.