Do you honestly have any freedom as a medical doctor/pre-med student in college?

[silmaril]

@ucbalumnus

Taking college courses while in high school means that the courses and grades will be included in medical school applications and GPA calculations.

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That’s true, I didn’t think of this! I didn’t attend a high school that offered opportunities like that so it never crossed my mind that this may be a concern for some high schoolers.

@ucbalumnus

It may be better not to take AP exams in subjects that the pre-med wants to (or has to for some medical schools) repeat in college, in order to avoid the possibility of having to mark “repeat” (of the AP scores) on them.

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Fairly sure that this is a non-issue. I repeated my gen chem and gen physics prerequisites despite having tested out via AP credits, and it’s never come up as an issue at all this app cycle, nor have any premed advisers at my college (or SDN) told me differently.