AP Credits and Med School

WayOutWestMom
Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:56:59 +0000

It’s OK to take an AP class then repeat the class in college because college courses are often more in depth and cover material that was not included in the original AP class.

Whether or not your college will allow you to take a course for which you’ve already received AP credit is an entirely different issue. Some colleges will allow it, but many won’t.

If you college does not permit you to take a class for which you already have credit (via AP exams), then you move to the next higher level class and take that.

Medical schools that don’t accept AP credits will usually allow you to substitute an upper level class for any introductory class you bypass via AP credits. If you look at the requirements, many med schools say 1 year of biology with labs–which means if you use AP credits to place out of Introductory Bio, you can use courses like genetics w/ lab or human anatomy w/lab to fulfill the admission requirements in biology. Same is true for chem. If you bypass gen chem, you’ll need to take a semester (or a year) in inorganic or analytic chem w/ labs to fulfill admission requirements.

Many medical schools state on their admissions pages that if you have AP credit for a required pre-req, you must take an equivalent number of additional credits in the same dept in college either to fulfill admission requirements or to be considered competitive for admission.