<p>I’m taking AP Bio now shooting for a 5 but how much of this material will I need to know inside and out for college if I’m doing Pre-Med at the University of Miami?</p>
<p>I’m moving this, but in the future please post questions about premed on the PreMed Topics forum.</p>
<p>How much? Probably everything.</p>
<p>At many schools, everything you learned in AP bio is covered within the first few weeks of class. At others, the freshman bio starts where AP bio left off. At others, AP bio and first semester freshman bio cover basically the same material.</p>
<p>OTOH, chapters 50+ of Campbell’s, which covers enviro may or may not come up in your Gen Bio class in colleges. The point is that every college does Gen Bio differently.</p>
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<p>You should know it very well. AP Bio is the equivalent of intro biology at 4 year universities across the country and internationally. The topics covered in AP bio are prerequisite curriculum at every medical school and will be a major part of the MCAT exam. The quality of AP classes taught in high schools can vary, so the grade you get in the class doesn’t have much meaning, but if you score a 5 on the exam, then you will either receive credit for the course in college or at least be allowed to take more advanced bio courses your freshman year in college. Good luck with that 5 on the exam! :)</p>
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<p>It depends on college. My D’s first Bio class went thru AP Bio material in first 2 weeks. No, AP Bio was not the equivalent to this inro Bio class at all. D. had 5 on exam and an A in AP Bio at private prep. HS. Good number of top caliber Honors students fell off pre-med track after this first college Bio that was part of their first semester at college.</p>
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<p>Would you please name some of these schools? It seems very strange to me that the College Board would not know about these schools (if they exist) considering their extensive survey efforts. If you read the description of the AP Biology course, (link included) then your comment makes very little sense. The course content, if your comment is correct, would no longer be an intro biology course. It would be something else. Intro science courses across the nation are some of the most well defined. The closest thing we have to any academic standards. AP bio is taught from college biology textbooks that are published because they are relevant to the course they target.</p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
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<p>Miami:</p>
<p>You have made this claim frequently. Please post the syllabus/link for your D’s “Biology” class. (According to the college’s own website, Frosh take Zoology, not Bio…)</p>
<p>^Not Zoology. Class was called BMZ - Botany, Micro-Biology, Zoology. It was taught by 3 profs in the classroom at the same lecture all the time, teaching their specialty. It had a killer lab. also.</p>
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Miami OH is a very special case. They don’t even offer a Biology major and so do not offer an intro to biology sequence. They offer classes that are appropriate for the majors they do have. AP Biology is an equivalent for Intro. to Biology. IF a college does not offer such a class (as Miami OH does not) then they can’t give you credit for a class they don’t even offer. To try to compare AP Bio to some special class offered at some university is not helpful.</p>
<p>I got a 5 on the AP exam back when I took it (06?), used AP credit for intro bio, and started my bio work toward my bio degree with genetics and cell biology (which normally follow intro bio). I continued with bio courses at my school (animal physiology, developmental bio, a few senior seminars, some research courses…) and felt like I was plenty prepared for them. </p>
<p>I think AP bio is great prep for college, and if you have a solid understanding on the AP bio material (evident by a score of at least 4 on the exam and probably an A- or better in the course, in my opinion) then I bet you’ll be able to handle your intro bio course just fine–you might even consider using AP credit to get out of it, and choosing upper level bio courses to satisfy med schools’ 2 semesters of bio requirement.</p>
<p>D. got the credit for AP Bio as others did. Some of pre-meds did not take BMZ.<br>
D. said that without this first class, she would not be able to get a good understanding of higher level Bio classes that she took plenty. She was happy that listen to recommendation to take the class.</p>
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<p>Sounds like an awesome course, but typical Gen Bio it is not. And thus is has little connection with AP Bio, which has zero zoology and the emphasis of botany has shrunk considerably over the years, only to be replaced by mico-cellular.</p>
<p>D2’s school does not allow the use of AP Bio credit for bio or bioengineering majors period. </p>
<p>Bio 112 (freshman bio for majors) has:</p>
<p>Prerequisites: Students with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Biology test, or an IB score of 7. </p>
<p>While the course description says it’s a more ‘in depth, experimental approach’ to biological topics in practice it’s straight up biochem after the first three weeks.</p>
<p>As I said, it depends on each UG, so it is very wise to listen to advisor as it seems to be various levels of requirment. At some you can skip first Bio, at others it is strongly recommended, while there is third group of UG where you absolutely must take it. Apparently, AP credit is also may or may not be accepted.</p>
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<p>Which is excellent advice.</p>
<p>But you have also frequently posted that your D went through AP Bio material in the first few weeks in college, which is not helpful/relevant to high schoolers in particular without the back story that your D’s college does not even offer what is considered the equivalent of AP Bio.</p>