<p>I got a 5 on my AP Chem exam, but I took that junior year of high school. Nevertheless, this qualifies me to place out of general chemistry. I can now move on to take organic chemistry CHM 303. </p>
<p>But how detrimental is this if I intend to go for premed? More importantly…how detrimental is this upon taking organic chemistry, especially since I won’t be taking that until Year 2…and the gap between AP Chm and Orgo would be 2 years?</p>
<p>There’s not much overlap between the material covered in general chemistry and organic chemistry, so I wouldn’t worry about the two year gap. I did something similar (took AP as a sophomore in high school then took orgo as a freshman) and had no problems.</p>
<p>If you don’t take any upper level chemistry courses along with orgo, it’ll be detrimental for sure.</p>
<p>You should take 2 semesters of orgo, biochem, and 2 upper division chem courses other than orgo. You could also do a semester of CHM 215 (but don’t do this - it’s lame, you know the material) and then do one semester of an upper div. I did 215 + 306 (Pchem/Thermo) because I got a 4 on the AP. But you could do orgo + biocehm + 305 (Quantum World, I hear this is a good class!) + 306 (Thermo, I thought it was pretty easy and it’s DEFINITELY paying off now that I’m studying for the MCAT since half the topics on the MCAT are covered in way more detail in CHM 306).</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much! Both of your comments are incredibly helpful. :)</p>
<p>So @randombetch: I assume you’re taking your MCAT the summer after your junior year?</p>
<p>Don’t take 305… What kind of medical school would take a class entitled “The Quantum World” as a serious science class? It may as well be called “Chemistry for Poets.” I guess it doesn’t help that “Computers in Our World” is a similarly named class that is infamous for being a gut-course.</p>
<p>Also I had Zoos (the prof. of 305) as a sub once and he was terrible.</p>
<p>@newest newb
dunno how much experience you have with the chem dept but despite being called “the quantum world” 305 is one half of the physical chem requirement that chem majors take in one of the available tracks. med schools will not think that this is a non-serious class by any means.</p>
<p>and yeah feel free to ap out. just plan on taking the courses mentioned above. as another frosh in ochem last year, i definitely did not suffer from lack of chem experience and did pretty well</p>
<p>I’m actually a chemistry major and I took 405, which is why I’m allowed to bag on 305 (with tongue in cheek - though I honestly do think the name is stupid).</p>
<p>Seeing as how that was your post #1, did you make an account just to respond to me?</p>
<p>Haha yeah the name is very silly, but most med schools don’t give a crap about how rigorous your courseload is unless it’s really light.</p>