"General Chemistry for Majors"

EngineerHead
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Rational people should not be spelling accept as “except.”

I’ll have to stick to LAConfedential’s side here and say that medical schools don’t like AP credits. Can’t say I’ve heard anyone getting questioned during interviews about accepting AP credits, but definitely have heard of students being questioned during interviews about their community college credits - which, ideally & logically, you would assume it to be the other way around. kindaslick89, you shouldn’t provide insight where your knowledge is lacking. Medical schools do not like AP credits, and the rational thinking behind AP credits as a pre-med is NOT necessarily to accept it. In fact, more often than not, the most rational people who have done complete & thorough research will not accept it (though I know of many who did and didn’t have any problems - to him his own). Perhaps I should bring a few of the much more knowledgeable CC members from our pre-med forums.

Regardless, with all this “rationality” aside, the OP appears quite set on not accepting his AP credits (by now… he would have already denied or accepted them anyway, so why bash him?).

To answer OP’s concern, I don’t know much about the differences between the two. I hear if you got a 4/5 on AP Chem then taking Gen Chem will probably be a bit boring to you, and that Gen Chem for Majors would be more suitable. It does move faster, cover more and more in depth, but the class sizes are also much smaller. Don’t know about the professors for Gen Chem for Majors, but if you go with regular Gen Chem 1035, get Amateis.