Input on premed bio schedule+a "B" cc course

ucbalumnus
Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:18:57 +0000

In general, decisions to skip or not skip are best evaluated by trying the college’s old final exams for the course that may be skipped. How well the student handles the problems on those old final exams can be used to assess readiness for the subsequent course.

However, medical school considerations intrude into the decision.

a. Repeating a college course may not look too good in medical school admissions, and certainly does not erase the previous grade for medical school purposes.
b. Skipping due to AP credit often means that the student will have to take an additional college course in the subject area (e.g. if skipping a semester of general chemistry with AP credit, the student needs to take a more advanced non-organic chemistry course later). Of course, if the student is majoring in that subject, that may not be a concern (e.g. a math major need not worry about skipping frosh calculus with AP calculus credit, since s/he will take many more advanced math courses like multivariable calculus, real analysis, etc.).

The other question is, what is his prospective major? No specific major is required to go to medical school.