<p>Hello!
What classes IB HL courses are recommended if I want to study pre-med in Cornell? I’m currently a sophomore and participating in the IB program next year. </p>
<p>Also…should I take 4 HL classes even though I only need 3 for the diploma? If I do well in all 4 HLs, my GPA and class rank will be higher. (Currently, my unweighted GPA is a 4, weighted, 4.1 Class rank is somewhere between 1/~50 to 5/~50)But should I? Is it necessary?</p>
<p>just call or email the admissions office at cornell and ask them
as a sophomore, you are way too early to worry about this stuff
there are no set ib or ap courses for cornell or for any program of study
good luck</p>
<p>I’m also interested in this - I’m taking IB as well.</p>
<p>for pre-meds, presumably studying science at undergrad, wouldn’t it be Math, Chem, Bio HL? and a fourth higher maybe English?</p>
<p>I took IB in HS and am on a pre-med track at Cornell.</p>
<p>You should definately take HL Math and probably 2 HL sciences. HL English seems to be an excellent fourth option since you’ll need to take 2 writing seminars here at Cornell.</p>
<p>I applied RD to Cornell’s ILR School. I’m an IB certificate studentI didn’t have a strong enough foreign language background to go for the diploma…plus I became overwhelmed with employment responsibilities and my commitment to DECA (I’m currently a State President running for an International Officer position). I took English and History of the Americas HL, Biology SL and Math Studies SL.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would take Biology HL, Math HL (which is basicaly suicide) and English HL.</p>
<p>thanks to all those who responded! </p>
<p>I’m thinking about taking Bio, English and Chem HL. What do you think about that? I’m not so sure about taking Math HL because my teachers don’t really recommend math HL unless you plan to major in math.</p>
<p>You’d probably be fine without Math HL. Do a health-and-human-services-related CAS project and you’re set.</p>
<p>I took HL Math, HL Science, HL English, HL Language wasn’t so bad either supposedly…</p>
<p>HL chem will help you for Chem, but it wont let you skip anything. HL bio could be useful, but I cannot say. HL math is useful, as is HL English because you skip a dreadful fws course. Those are the only four you really sholud care about, pre-med or not.</p>
<p>What is important is to get that IB diploma. For more humanities type of student (like my younger daughter), it is not necessary to take HL math and science. I would imagine someone who wants to be a pre-med, HL bio or chemistry maybe necessary, but not HL math. My daughter was tested into HL math, but chose to do HL Spanish instead. She was also advised not to take HL math unless she wanted to go into engineering. TKO takes up a lot of her time (major paper), and 100 hours of volunteer work are very time consuming. </p>
<p>My daughter finds her course load to be very manageable. It is all the testing (prep) and applications for various summer programs that’s taking up most of her time this year.</p>
<p>the other thing with taking HL Math. You really aren’t going to get out of taking math at Cornell. Med Schools really want to see you take math in college. So if you take HL math and test out of Calculus, you will just end up having to take a higher level math at Cornell so you have at least the min. requirement for med school.</p>
<p>If you are all into math and don’t mind that or want to explore math above Calc, then go ahead and punish yourself with the HL math. Otherwise, stick with the SL math.</p>
<p>Sorry, I suppose I was speaking from the point of view of a science major, where HL math is at the very least helpful.</p>
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<p>my statement about HL math was not directed at anything you said in your post. Just more of a general statement.</p>
<p>I know lots of people bust their butt to test out of math, my DD included. Only to realize that in order to go to med/grad school, they still need to take a math class while at cornell.</p>
<p>I’m sure math is very good for science major. But for someone like my DD, who is a NS major. Math is really the least of her concerns. At least math higher than Calc 1 or Stat. Both of which she took as AP classes in HS.</p>