Freshman Questions and Suggestions

momosky
Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:52:37 +0000

1) You can switch between majors in the biology department as many times as you wish (or, as it says on their site, every 14 days). If you’re currently a human bio major, switching to genbio should be as easy as a click of a button.

2) https://meded.ucsd.edu/asa/admissions/application_process/step_by_step/

3) Look at the AP chart UCSD2013 posted. Check how many quarters you skip out of. Check what the UCSD med school admissions page (which I posted above) says.

[or, if you didn’t read the site above: AP credit with a score of 4 or 5 can be used to satisfy some of the requirements: The full year of Math. One semester of Physics (meaning you would need to complete ONE semester or TWO quarters to complete the requirements). You should just contact your academic adviser to make sure.]

4) For my freshman year I just did the physics sequence and the chem sequence. My roommate completed the genchem, genbio, and genphysics sequence in her first year (so her schedule was the same the whole year: chem bio physics writing). I started physics in winter and that left me with a lot less choices in profs. I don’t think that problem appears with bio since most people take the bio series out of sequence anyway.