AP BIO vs. AP CHEM

Dmoney11
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 04:51:46 +0000

thefreakedout makes a good point; afterall, being a doctor is mainly about biology

but if you feel like you’re up to it, then try asking your counselor if you can take both ap chem and ap bio in the same year. a few students at my school have done in the past, and now they’re going to mit, caltech, harvard, etc. (though it does tend to be self-selective, double-sciencing probably shows a lot of interest and initiative)
if that doesn’t work out, then you could self-study for ap bio (also shows interest and initiative) and take the ap test in may next year. it seems like a lot, but if you think about if you read just 1 chapter a day you’d be done in less than two months (the most commonly used text is 55 chapters). it’d also be a good idea to get a study guide and try to get permission from the ap bio teacher to do some labs, since that’s all you’d miss out on if you didn’t take the class.