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<li>You will not get into graduate school–at least not into a PhD program–if you don’t do research. Full stop. Doesn’t matter where you go. </li>
<li>Biology in general is not a very theoretical subject–it’s not physics, we can’t model it that well, at least not yet. (Which is not to say that none of biology can be modeled, or that people don’t try.) I’ve been trying to think of how you would teach biology in a “theoretical” manner and coming up short.</li>
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<p>I’m taking the AP5 sequence now and find it to be–I wouldn’t call it practical, but very focused on research; there’s a huge emphasis on teaching students how biological experiments are typically conducted. I can elaborate, if you like.</p>