<p>I happen to agree with your adviser. The thing about orgo is that many students struggle with it, but some do well and can’t understand the fuss. You could say similar things for calculus: some students breeze through it and many others feel like they just ran into a brick wall. If I were you, I would give it a shot before dropping down to a lower level - especially if the gen chem professor is as horrid as aphoticmelody says. Why torture yourself through an awful class that you won’t learn much from?</p>
<p>About med schools and AP credits: the general consensus is that med schools are fine with AP credits as long as you take a more advanced course in college in the same subject. APed out of Calc 1? Take Calc 2. First-year physics? Second-year physics. Gen chem? Going straight into orgo is perfectly fine as far as med schools are concerned!</p>