According to the "Advanced Placement Credit" chart (for Warren College), I am exempted from "two courses from Bio 1 or 2" and that I "may not take Bio 1 or 2." Are Bio 1 and 2 the same as BILD 1 and 2? I'm assuming that they are. However, I intended on taking BILD 1-3 in preparation for the MCAT. Would you guys recommend taking the BILD series(w/o getting credit) or taking the upper-division Bio courses?
Bio 1 and 2 = BILD 1 and 2 (it was Bio 1 and 2 years ago...)
I didn't take bild 1 and 2, and I don't think it made much of a difference in my upper divs, but if you don't really remember any AP bio that well it may help to retake them.
And are you a premed? I think that you need to take Bild 1 and 2 for med school admissions (a current premed can probably verify this),so then you wouldn't really have a choice.
If you're going to apply to med schools with the 1-year gen bio requirement, you HAVE to take BILD. UCSD won't give you credit for it, but they also won't do anything to keep you enrolling in it.
Wait, so it's mandatory that I take BILD? Because according to the admission websites of some medical schools (i.e Johns Hopkins, Drexel, UCSD), the requirements are one year of college-level Biology. Wouldn't that include either lower-division Biology and upper-division Biology? And also, according the med school pamphlet that the UCSD career center published (http://career.ucsd.edu/sa/Handouts/medicine.pdf), it is recommended that we take upper-division Biology courses if we already have AP credit for Biology. I'm totally confused right now, haha.
*some* medical schools require one year of college-level bio, meaning anything in the undergrad range covers it.
*other* medical schools specifically call for one year of lower-division biology (general bio, while upper-div has a specialization) and you can't use AP credit or upper-division courses to cover it. UCD is one of these schools. my guess it that the career center just wants you to continue with your major and stay on track -- if the need arises for you to take BILD1/2/3 as a senior, you'll be all the more prepared for it.
chemistry also has a similar problem, and it's not unheard of for graduating seniors to enroll in chem 6a/b/c in efforts to make their med schools happy.
Although the grades that I will receive in the BILD classes won't show up in my GPA, will the grades show up on my transcript and will medical schools recompute my GPA with those courses?
the grades will still show up (your professors still report them) but i doubt the med schools will take that into account -- besides, in the grand scheme of things, a few hundredths of a grade point isn't going to matter much?
I'm majoring in Physiology and Neuroscience (B136) and was intending to take BILD 3 during my Fall quarter. According to the 2005-2006 edition of the Warren AP Credit chart(http://warren.ucsd.edu/academiclife/...ces/ap_ib.pdf), I may not enroll in BILD 1 and 2 to get additional units. However, on the AP Credit chart from other colleges (such as Revelle: http://revelle.ucsd.edu/aa/ur/chart/ap.pdf and ERC: http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/academics/...rtv6.25.08.pdf -- these AP charts were recently updated), a score of 5 on the AP Bio exam exempts me from BILD 1,2, and 3. Since I'm in Warren, I was wondering if I am also exempted from BILD 3, or can I still get additional units for enrolling?
and even though med schools probably won't look at the BILD grades if u retake them, would this be one of those situations where we would "have" to get like an A, b/c med school admissions ppl would think "if he got a 5 on AP Bio, how come he didn't get an A?"
there's no way for you to get a record of you auditing a class, since you're not officially enrolled. also, some med schools (UC Davis is one) won't accept AP credit for the lower-division biology requirement.
I'm completely unfamiliar with these school's admissions policies, but he could take these classes P/NP if he doesn't need them for university requirements, couldn't he?
